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infact every first day of every month should be the anti-terrorist day
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It should be the first Monday of the month that way we can have work / school off.
Great article Ming
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chegitz guevara
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Ft. Lauderdale, FL Communist Party of Apolyton
Jun 2000 time: 00:27
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand
When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.
He answered by saying that, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return."
It became very quiet in the room. |
Apparently they forgot about Manifest Destiny, as well as Guantanimo, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone in Panama, the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, etc.
Why do people think that an empire has to have your flag flying over it. What we recognize today as parts of the Roman Empire were actually allied kingdoms. "British" India was largely made up of local principalities. Even when the US flag waved over almost the entire Carribean, we did not annex those countries. True, they may have been run by an American ambassador or military officer, but they were still officially independent countries.
Today the American empire stretches from one pole to the other in the Western hemisphere, interrupted only by a rebel holdout in Cuba and rings the Pacific. We penetrate Africa, have numerous outposts in the Indian Ocean, Middle East, and Central Asia, and despite Europe's balking at out most recent adventure, pretty well have Europe in our pocket. Just because we look like few empires in history before us doesn't mean we aren't history's greatest empire.
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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002 time: 21:27
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some women will just have tons of beer and die from exhaustion of their fat asses hauling it around.
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Funny, I was just thinking how this could backfire, Uber. After all, not all American women are concentration camp victims with helium ballons stuck inside their chests. More than half the country is overweight. |
I live in a college dorm. Bring it on.
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