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Offline Mister Fork

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« on: March 26, 2003, 05:27:17 PM »
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.
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« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2003, 05:32:11 PM »
I guess he forgot about how we got the western United States.

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« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2003, 05:34:27 PM »
To be entirely fair to the Archbishop of Canterbury, a more detailed description of the events can be found at:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/powell.asp

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« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2003, 05:38:22 PM »
Hell the snopes transcript is even better.

The fact that Powell is not president is to me the strongest indicator that the two party system is completely hosed.

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« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2003, 05:38:36 PM »
and I thought the Internet was a short-attention-span kinda thing..

still.. good post

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« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2003, 05:39:09 PM »
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I guess he forgot about how we got the western United States.


No, in the transcript he says "over the past hundred years" so there!

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« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2003, 05:41:59 PM »
I guess he forgot about how we got the western United States.
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Same applies to the whole of the US territory.  Plymouth rock being the first attack on the indigs.

To quote an old indian saying "Custer died for your sins".
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« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2003, 06:05:13 PM »
Thats "Custer died for OUR sins" .  But still a good quote.

And it accually started with the settelment at St Augustine, Plymoth was quite some time later, even after Roanoke.
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« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2003, 06:16:15 PM »
one more time , the whiteman did not take the land from the indian, the whiteman only wanted to share the land.

to this day the indian can (and does) own land in the united states, no one ever said the indian could not own land.

in addition to privately owned land the indian tribes own large tracts of land they can claim as soverign indian land


and before someone says the indian did not "own' anything, the indian tribes owned land and fought each other over control over the land, the worst tribe for taking land from other tribes was the souix, when the souix got the rifle and the horse they took land from other tribes and expanded their territory to the south west
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« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2003, 06:51:20 PM »
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one more time , the whiteman did not take the land from the indian, the whiteman only wanted to share the land.


Right... :rolleyes:
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« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2003, 06:55:29 PM »
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Hell the snopes transcript is even better.

The fact that Powell is not president is to me the strongest indicator that the two party system is completely hosed.



100% agreed.

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one more time , the whiteman did not take the land from the indian, the whiteman only wanted to share the land.


Hahahahaha...
Comedy gold.
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« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2003, 07:40:58 PM »
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one more time , the whiteman did not take the land from the indian, the whiteman only wanted to share the land.



I'd like to share your wife... (I think..) :D
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« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2003, 07:50:03 PM »
I have to admit l'il Georgies political advisors were very smart to take Powell out of play by making him Secretary of State.

I would have voted for him in 2000, he is the only bright spot in this administration.

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« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2003, 07:53:21 PM »
I may have mis-heard, but I'm pretty sure I did not...

Powell stated long ago before the presidential RUNNINGS for 2000 that he did NOT want to be president.
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« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2003, 07:55:39 PM »
I was looking for Powell in 2000 too, but as I remember it, Mrs Powell had a lot more to say about it than any of George's buddies.  

Pretty smart of them to make her a member of the plot.
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