Tom Sixkiller wrote:

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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Congress declared
war so that they could invade the Canadian colonies; they didn't invade
the
Canadian colonies because they were at war.

How terribly oldfashioned of them!

(It's amazing, how many things you can learn on Usenet.)

Well, don't consider it "learned" just yet. We're still waiting for some
historical reference.

Well, it's described concisely in the book _Don't Know Much About History_. The
congresscritters of that day used that argument to rouse public enthusiasm for the
war. I would provide a quote, but my copy has grow legs.

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.