From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

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.
>
> Adam



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