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In <34EB4617...@dshipley.demon.co.uk> David Shipley
<Mo...@dshipley.demon.co.uk> writes: 
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>TenthStone wrote:
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>> "Willy" <wan...@rogers.wave.ca> caused this to appear in our
collective minds on Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:14:09 -0500:
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>> >Jeffrey T. Jhee wrote in message <34E0A7D5...@nwu.edu>...
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>> >>Also, if you are a soldier, related to a soldier, or have any
relatives
>> >>or friends involved with this, I'm sure you would care.
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>> >True, hurry and sign them up for a large life insurance policy and
then send
>> >them out to battle. Besides, it is the American way, War is good
economics.
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>> >They want to do it again, after all Desert Storm was the first
"war" the
>> >Americans won since 1865.
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>> I don't quite understand this... True, the country did not win Viet
Nam in any
>> sense of the word (unless delaying a near-inevitable counts as
victory)
>> but it would seem that your typical anti-American prejudice is
showing again,
>> Willy.  Quite frankly, America and Russia together won World War II
-- with
>> some small degree of aid from the British.  America outright won
Korea --
>> unless you consider the remnant tension a sign of defeat, which
would
>> mean no war on the face of the planet was ever truly won -- and
World
>> War I could not have been ended as quickly without aid from the
United
>> States.
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>ahem....
>actually by the time the US got involved in the Great War Germany was
already collapsing economically.....
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In large part becasue of the U.S.'s trade with the allies, so you the
U.S. was a bigger part than you think!
MISHA