The ugliest American? Mitt the twit

John Bull said:
England is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn’t make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._representation_of_his_worldview_.single.html
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If it wasn't for the Japanese the Americans wouldn't either. However were it not for the Industrial revolution, which we gave them and the world, they would have been taken over by Indian tribes and be dancing round fires.
You might say we saved their sorry arses!!!
 
Lowaicue said:
If it wasn't for the Japanese the Americans wouldn't either. However were it not for the Industrial revolution, which we gave them and the world, they would have been taken over by Indian tribes and be dancing round fires.
You might say we saved their sorry arses!!!
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Yeah, by losing a war where you wanted to demand the right to kill the natives you really pulled our bacon out there! Whew. We barely missed being killed by "Indian" Tribes as we so clearly would have by letting the Brits kill them instead of doing it ourselves!
 
Damocles said:
Yeah, by losing a war where you wanted to demand the right to kill the natives you really pulled our bacon out there! Whew. We barely missed being killed by "Indian" Tribes as we so clearly would have by letting the Brits kill them instead of doing it ourselves!
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Actually the Six Nations and the majority of other tribes fought with the Brits.

"During the American Revolution, the Iroquois first tried to stay neutral. Pressed to join one side or the other, the Tuscarora and the Oneida sided with the colonists, while the Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga and Cayuga remained loyal to Great Britain, with whom they had stronger relationships. It was the first political split among the Six Nations. Joseph Louis Cook offered his services to the United States and received a Congressional commission as a Lieutenant Colonel- the highest rank held by any Native American during the war.[33]
The Mohawk war chief Joseph Brant, other war chiefs, and British allies conducted numerous operations against frontier settlements in the Mohawk Valley..."
 
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