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Deranged Dhimmi Carter re-writes history
 Hardball (ha ha!) with Chris Matthews *snipped (intro and leading question from the Chrisco Kid) MATTHEWS: Let me ask you the question aboutthis is going to cause some trouble with peoplebut as an historian now and studying the Revolutionary War as it was fought out in the South in those last years of the War, insurgency against a powerful British force, do you see any parallels between the fighting that we did on our side and the fighting that is going on in Iraq today? CARTER: Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we've fought. (emphasis added) Oh. My. God. How could a former Commander-in-Chief be this ignorant? Every school child should know that more that more than 600,000 Americans died in the Civil War and more than 400,000 in WW2. Other than American combat deaths, figures on fatalities during the Revolution are hard to come by, but historians agree that they were fewer than 30,000, counting civilians and all combatants, and probably little more than half that. Even if Carter's absurd contention about the Revolution were true, how is this the worst only "up until recently"? Is he trying to pull a Zinn/Goebbels Big Lie and suggest that the present war is the bloodiest in our history? In no time at all, lefty professo-liars and NEA drones will probably be telling their students exactly that, and using Carter as a source. It gets worse: I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war. Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonial's really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely, and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way. I think in many ways the British were very misled in going to war against America and in trying to enforce their will on people who were quite different from them at the time. *snipped (no challenge from Matthews) Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-10-19 |
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