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Old 11-21-08, 12:01 PM   #54
MothBalls
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Originally Posted by Skybird
I have no agenda, I am simply angry, and with all right we non-Americans can have, since we pay the bills.
Ever see the series from James Burke called Connections? It was a good show telling about how one small event in the past can drastically change the future.

1939 America was isolationist. It was drug into world events that created the military industrial complex and the first superpower. America didn't win the war by itself, but it did make significant contributions. Please tell us what your world would be like today if they didn't make those contributions? Give the US some credit. After all, they did invent the deep fried twinkie.

I think Bill Maher hit the nail on the head a couple years before this report came out:

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Side note: Love what Maher says about . Funny as hell.
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