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To: vbmoneyspender
The Conquistadors were the good guys.

Are you nuts? They invaded sovereign nations, they spread their beliefs and their religion at the point of a sword. If they had had the numbers and military power to take on the rest of Europe, they would have wiped out the English and French colonies in North America. I say this as somebody of Spanish descent whose family has been in the Americas for five centuries or so. They were interested in the three G's - Gold, God, and Glory, and not necessarily in that order, and anybody who interfered with that was killed or conquered.
53 posted on 10/07/2011 2:35:30 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: af_vet_rr
Can you site any evidence for the Conquistadors torturing children, women and the elderly - let alone sacrificing them.

It is truly amazing how political correctness infects even Free Republic.

57 posted on 10/07/2011 3:48:10 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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