From: JoeBloe on
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:44:17 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> Gave us:

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>"John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message
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>> By winning, we fought and bought our way from ocean to ocean and
>> have become the most powerful nation on the Earth. Pretty important
>> war, ISTM.
>
>Only if your sense of self-worth happens to include being a big, arrogant
>bully. Funny, there are lots of people on earth who are perfectly happy
>without that ego boost.
>

We were at the station he mentioned long before the current mess, and
your current 100% misled mindset.
From: Eeyore on


lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net wrote:

> "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote
>
> > By winning, we fought and bought our way from ocean to ocean and
> > have become the most powerful nation on the Earth. Pretty important
> > war, ISTM.
>
> Only if your sense of self-worth happens to include being a big, arrogant
> bully. Funny, there are lots of people on earth who are perfectly happy
> without that ego boost.

Britain managed that role without being loathed.

Graham

From: T Wake on

"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:41:01 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> Gave us:
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>>"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
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>>> All of Islam (read the moslems) believe that all others that are not
>>> moslem are "infidels" and that killing them is not, nor should not be
>>> a crime.
>>
>>More right wing fear-mongering propaganda, the only legitimate purpose of
>>which was to keep Republicans in power, and that you have swallowed whole.
>>Do you *ever* think for yourself?
>>
>
> Bullshit. It is a known fact, dumbass. Also, they think that
> touching a non muslim is bad. They also think that murdering a
> daughter found to be not virginal is OK, despite the fact that the
> father is usually the culprit (or a brother).

Have you ever met a Muslim person?


From: JoeBloe on
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:47:22 +0100, "T Wake"
<usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us:

>Really? I seem to recall the British Empire went on to become quite large
>and successfull while your nation was trying to expand.


You mean "colonization"? Yeah... that is what resulted in slavery
here, as well as apartheid in S. Africa, as well as the need for a
person like Ghandi to take a stand. We won't even mention the opium
trade, or the dens that existed in London even right up into the last
century.
From: JoeBloe on
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:47:22 +0100, "T Wake"
<usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> Gave us:

>America would have eventually become independant. It always happens in the
>end. No empire lasts for ever.


Ours will. Why? Because it is based on freedom. No matter how hard
to try to deny it, or point to current affairs as a proof against it.
It remains a fact.