Martin

Guess you would rather be speaking Japanese today?

Japan was almost ready to invade Australia when the US sent troops,
planes and ships and stopped them along with the Australian forces who
participate in WWII in the Pacific in a very heroic manner. Those I
fought with were first class 'blokes'.

Australian forces would also have participated in the Invasion. If it
had taken place. your Country would have lost many more of its young
men. Could have set you back a generation according to some histories
I have read.

We have been the "Ugly Americans" for years and now that we are top
dog we still take many of the 'pin pricks' leveled against us. However
poke the bear and wake him up in the middle of winter, we can say
enough is enough and get rough with the pin pricker's. When we do
don't fault us for being stupid.

We still have to turn back thousands trying to get in the country and
I wonder if they think we are such a bad country. If we closed our
borders there would be a out cry from the rest of the world about our
protectionist policies.

Some time you can't win for trying.

Big John (Only running on 7 cylinders due to heart)
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On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 20:11:25 GMT, Martin Hotze
wrote:

On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:49:42 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:

It would seem that Martin believes that the Japanese would have met us with
cherry blossoms on the beaches had we not dropped the Bomb... Must be
those Austrian history books...

[.. doubting that you know very much of outside US, but anyway ...] it was
OT, so I have set a follow up to poster. damn! get a clue!
the bomb was maybe a smart solution for you (Americans), but I doubt that
many others see it as smart as you do.
mabye *we* have learned from wars (we fought too many), it seems that you
are still happy going to war and shipping bodies back to their families.
!"/&$(/&%$$§%"$§!!!!

#m
f-up2poster, again.