From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 15:35:20 -0400, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>> On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 17:36:02 -0400, Adam Flinton
>>   wrote:
>>
>>> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 18:00:26 -0400, Adam Flinton
>>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:13:47 -0400, Adam Flinton
>>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 06:32:48 -0400, Geo
 wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> "Adam Flinton"
 wrote in message
>>>>>>>>> news:429ecb87$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/3314.htm
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> All war is prima facie a war of
aggression for the the country
>>>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>>>> started shooting. The only defence
against the charge is
>>>>>>>>>> self-defence.
>>>>>>>>>> Iraq was not a threat to the US
nor was it about to invade the
>>>>>>>>>> US.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It could be argued that Iraq was just
a continuation of the
>>>>>>>>> 1991   Iraq  war
>>>>>>>>> due to them violating the terms of
their surrender.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Geo.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  And Kerry opposed THAT war.  If he'd had
his way Saddam would
>>>>>>>> still   have  Kuwait, and probably Saudi
Arabia as well.  The
>>>>>>>> man  was long   promoting  himself as a
latter day Saladin or
>>>>>>>> even  Nebuchanezzer.   We  stopped a 
Reich-building Hitler on
>>>>>>>> the make.   Would that we had  done  as
much to  Adolph early on.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> & I'll bet the Sioux & Apache wish
they'd stopped Grant et al.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   By Grant's time it was centuries too late.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe decades.
>>>>
>>>>   No, it's centuries.  A good chunk of the American aboriginal
>>>> population  was dead of Old World diseases long before they saw any
>>>> Europeans.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Territorial exapnsionism is always an
interesting proposition.
>>>>>>> Luckily  here in the UK we are bounded by the
sea & she will
>>>>>>> always   win.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Garbage.  You've had multiple waves of invasion.  You're
>>>>>> Germanic    ancestors conquered Celts who conquered pre-IEs.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Invasion. Quite. Expansionism is generally the opposite of you
>>>>> being   subject to an invasion.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is a bugger trying to invade the sea & still
more so to try &
>>>>> then   control it afterwards. Ask Canute.
>>>>
>>>>   Ask William the Conqueror.  Ask your nameless Germanic tribal
>>>> ancestors  who stole the land from the Celts.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Shrug. In which case what's your problem with the Germanics wanting
>>> to  establish a lebensraum out to the Urals or Saddam wanting to
>>> bring  Arabistan back into the pan-arab brotherhood as part of Iraq?
>>>
>>> Adam
>>   Because it's me or mine that get hurt.  If I were one of those early
>> Celts  I would have wanted to stop you too, so knock off the
>> self-righteous crap.
>>
>
> ROFL. You're the one spouting the self-righteous crap wrt people who
> engage in territorial expansionism being oooooohhhh soooo
> nasssty...unless it's sea to shining sea, Hawaii etc & then oh it's fine.
>

No actually it's you who've been ragging us about our expansionism for
years here, conveniently ignoring your own history.  You can hold your nose
but your squatting over your own shit.  I guess we should just have let
poor dear Hitler take Europe and Saddam take Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and
every place else he might have "unified."

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Gary Wiltshire

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