From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

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.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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