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From: Eeyore on 4 Aug 2006 00:50 John Larkin wrote: > On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:26:05 GMT, Phat Bytestard > <phatbytestard(a)getinmahharddrive.org> wrote: > > >>England would have starved if the US Navy hadn't been helping the > >>convoys, loaded with American food and ammo, get through. Those > >>millions of Indian troops couldn't have reached Britain, and would > >>have had nothing to eat and nothing to shoot if they had swum all the > >>way. Germany was just too far ahead in militarization, and the U-boats > >>were too good. > >> > > > > Yes. We escorted hundreds of ships. > > Full of American food, vehicles, fuel, and ammo. Britain imported 70% > of its food just before the war, and had no substantial domestic > source of avaition fuel. Texas saved England, and England prefers not > to remember. We also remember we had to pay the bill. It didn't come free as you seem to infer. Graham
From: Phat Bytestard on 4 Aug 2006 00:49 On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 05:17:35 +0200, "Bill Sloman" <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> Gave us: >You've got loads of history, and don't know much about it, because what you >lack is a decent education system. The one you've got churns out hicks. You call yourself intelligent?
From: Phat Bytestard on 4 Aug 2006 00:50 On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 05:28:31 +0200, "Bill Sloman" <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> Gave us: >You were fighting on your own behalf, and you didn't start fighting until it >became clear that the Axis powers were as much of threat to you as they were >to the U.K. and its colonies. You're an idiot. We were involved in the war for three years before we rolled a single tank.
From: Phat Bytestard on 4 Aug 2006 00:51 On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 05:28:31 +0200, "Bill Sloman" <bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> Gave us: >As occupiers, you were less oppressive and destructive than the Russians This is absolute proof that you are a simple minded retard.
From: Eeyore on 4 Aug 2006 00:52
John Fields wrote: > On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:19:45 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >John Fields wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:08:25 +0100, Eeyore > >> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> >In return you got our 'golden jewels' utterly free of charge like radar and jet engines. > >> > >> --- > >> Hundreds of thousands of American lives lost fighting on your > >> behalf is hardly "free". > > > >On 'our' behalf ? > > --- > Didn't you ask us to get into the war? When we did ask you didn't. The USA got into the war on its own account over a dispute with Japan in case you'd forgotten. Graham |