Originally Posted by Mikeuk:
It's good to hear that Barack Obama will soon be ringing down the curtain on the gung-ho racism and mindless imperialism of the Bush years.

Amen to that.

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And that means fair treatment for the dispossessed native peoples of America.

Wouldn't it be a laugh if you and your neighbours were all shoved off your land without compensation and your neighbourhood turned into a Native American reservation and casino?

dude, you have no idea how things work here. Besides they don't want my land. It's you royalty types that allow that type of behavior.

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It's the way forward for racial and social justice in the so-called Land of the Free!

Freedom isn't free.
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Originally Posted by Westcountryman:
Oh I don't know, perhaps in gratitude for them winning your independence for you and then giving you a naff statue to go with it. :-)

Tell me, which bothers you more, the independence or the statue?:-)
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Originally Posted by Westcountryman:
I'm not boasting, I'm just responding to the usual and inaccurate 'America won the war and you'd be speaking German without us' argument.

a little chain yanking, geez you guys are touchy.

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The USSR did far more in World War 2 than America, as did the United Kingdom. I also hate the line hollywood takes when it comes to war films - according to hollywood, it was the Americans who captured the first enigma machine and it was America, somehow, who won the Battle of Britain for us (in fact if you believe some films then Ben Affleck pretty much did it all single handedly).

I think Pinewood Studios put out a few Britain won the War films of its own, don't you think? and the only WWII film Affleck is in, that I know of, occurs in the Pacific. Now, John Wayne? He kicked ass all over the planet!

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America's role in the war, whilst important, has been overblown and over rated for years. And of course, no one can forget that America used the post-war situation to dismantle the British Empire (no bad thing in itself) and then usher in a new era of American Imperialism.

and whom has overblown that role? And this Empire you bemoan, you see no hypocrisy to ask Indians, Burmese, et al to fight for your freedom and deny them theirs? and let's not use the two wrongs make it right argument please.

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America has been meddling in European affairs ever since.

hey, I don't like that we are so entrenched in europe. If it was up to me, I'd close every base in europe. japan too. and Korea. Oh yea. who's been the de facto world police man for the past 60 years, paid for by the american taxpayer thank you very much!
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Originally Posted by BonnieDundee:
The poster made that comment after similar comments were made towards him, I believe. It was certainly a silly statement however.

I must admit I find humor lacking here.
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Originally Posted by Mikeuk:
He's disappeared again.

The arrogance of Americans knows no bounds. :-)

Why wouldn't I disappear? You've all been ignoring me.



I'm hurt, fellas.
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You should stay a few Americans might be interesting plus the volume of postings on the board seems to have fallen recently.
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Originally Posted by BonnieDundee:
You should stay a few Americans might be interesting plus the volume of postings on the board seems to have fallen recently.

Sorry it took so long responding. I got a new computer and have been playing around with it. I'm sorry if I stepped on anyone's toes. Just as we say in the states, "stirring a little *****", well actually, we say ****.
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Originally Posted by Kanadesaga:
Sorry it took so long responding. I got a new computer and have been playing around with it. I'm sorry if I stepped on anyone's toes. Just as we say in the states, "stirring a little *****", well actually, we say ****.

Hey Kanadesaga, I admire you for sticking up for your country on this mainly British board, and I like what I have read of your opinions. :-)

I went on a US board briefly, but I was practically run off for suggesting that the US was not the best of all possible societies - LOL! (And I wasn't even criticising the US, just saying there was no such animal as 'the best country in the world'.) So I know what it's like to swim against the tide. :-)

I'm only new here, but I hope you keep posting. :-)
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Originally Posted by Leo:
Hey Kanadesaga, I admire you for sticking up for your country on this mainly British board, and I like what I have read of your opinions. :-)

I didn't know that they actually taught "double standards" in the schools of today.

Now explain to me why it is fine and dandy for Kanadesaga to "stick up" for his country but is nasty racism when I "stick up" for my country.
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Hello - anyone there?
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