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Trauma teaches History, part 1
Trauma-san:
Interesting thing I thought of. This is especially directed at American citizens who don't support the war in Iraq.
There's a big ass statue standing in new York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty. We didn't put it there. The French people put it there as a symbol of the friendship we created during the American Revolution.
Dig this...
In the 1700's, we came to this continent for 2 reasons. 1 was to escape the King of England's taxes, and the other was to escape the Church of England. We fought the fucking KING OF ENGLAND and everything he could throw at us over taxes. Money. We wanted to be free, and not have to pay him.
Now, we probably wouldn't have been able to pull it off, save for 1 thing... the French also hated the King of England, so the French sent 25,000 troops to America to help us gain our liberty. They weren't really all that interested in us being free, they had their own reasons, but our freedom was a positive result of them sending troops over here to fight the British.
We fought, and lost, 25,000 american colonists for our independence from TAXES. The French sent over 25,000 troops, and 4,000 of them went home in a box. 4,000 troops dead, for OUR Independence. That's 15% of the troops they sent over, just to help us save money. Ahem.
Anyways, flash forward 230 years or so. We're in Iraq, with 140,000 troops. 400 have died. These people are suffering under a dictator 400 times the horror the King Of England was to us 230 years ago! We lost 25,000 of our own men to escape him because we didn't like his TAXES! These people have their women raped, their kids killed, just the other day I hear this story bout an Iraqi 'policeman' poking a child's eyes out. WTF? We've all heard the horror stories, we all know that Saddam gassed 4,000 of his own citizens to test out a new form of nerve gas. All this, AND the country lives in poverty while he sits on a throne.
Now... if France was kind enough to let 4,000 of their men die to save our asses from Taxes, I don't see anything wrong with 400 of our soldiers dying so the citizens of Iraq can escape a man who tortures their children and rapes their women.
Now, just as France didn't come over here to 'liberate' us, maybe we didn't go to Iraq to 'liberate' them. However, you have to admit, 400 soldiers is a small price to pay for the freedom these people are going to get as a biproduct of our intentions. If you don't think we should be in Iraq, what do you think the Iraqi citizens think? Probably the same thing we thought 230 years ago when France came over to help us, just because they hated England.
Just something interesting to think about.
M Dogg™:
nice read. keep it up
Trauma-san:
*Shows how silly I am, I figured you'd just have something negative to say, so I didn't read your response for 2 days. LOL
kottonmouthninja:
who is that ugly bitch in your avatar and sig?
M Dogg™:
--- Quote from: Trauma on November 05, 2003, 01:40:18 PM ---*Shows how silly I am, I figured you'd just have something negative to say, so I didn't read your response for 2 days. LOL
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Why would say something negative about facts. Though times change, and things are seen different in different eras, it is the samething, and if I agree, I give props where props are due.
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