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Posted by Steve Scott on December 6, 2005, 4:24 pm
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:45:59 -0000, clewis@nortelnetworks.com (Chris
Lewis) wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:02:21 -0000, clewis@nortelnetworks.com (Chris
>> Lewis) wrote:
>>
>> >> On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 19:43:55 -0500, "SolarFlare"
>> >
>> >> >The USA tried to invade Canada many times and always
>> >> >lost.
>> >> Yeh, right, stimpy. SUUURE we did.
>
>> >Never heard of the war of 1812, have you?
>
>> Hmm, Canada wasn't even a country then. It was a British colony.
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>Picky picky ;-) Still the same place, and the same peoples.
>
>Indeed, if you hadn't deployed WMDs (torching towns in Niagara) we
>probably would be US states by now. [Up until then it was primarily
>British regulars and their Indian allies you were fighting. After that,
>the Canadians got pissed off too.]
So we kicked the Brits, Indians AND Canadians. :) And probably had
one tied behind our backs to make it fair.
>> >Or the Fenian raids?
>
>> The Fenian raids? Irish trying to get the Brits out of Ireland.
>
>[By attacking Canada from the US. Makes sense somehow I guess.]
There's no accounting for the reasoning of the Irish.
>> Hardly the USA. And they started while Canada was still a colony of
>> Britain.
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>Started. Continued until afterwards, with the US government continuing
>to turn a blind eye to it.
True, but still just a few Irish, not the USA.
>> >Ann Coulter would be soooo proud of you.
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>> Your history teacher must be proud of you.
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>I think they were.
>
>We're still waiting for the repayment over the property you stole from our
>ancestors in the late 1700s <evil grin>.
Take an IOU? :)
--
Science seeks to make theories that
are so beautiful, elegant, and logical
that Nature is flattered and acquiesces
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