[ladtx]

...the supposed reconquest of territory that once belonged to Mexico that was sold to the United States at gunpoint following the Mexican War.

Errrr - Bruce it's called terms of surrender.

[Andyman]

As FReeper LS indicated in his book, many Europeans suggested that the Mexicans would be in Washington D.C. in the six weeks after the was started. We look back as if it was the current US against the current Mexico, not the USA and Mexico of the 1840s.

[TLI]

Errrr - Bruce it's called terms of surrender.

And since we held all the Mexican territory south of Texas up to and including Mexico city, we did not necessarily need to pay them at all. Perhaps next time we will not be such "nice guys."