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To: Jack_Macca; kanawa; BnBlFlag; Candor7; fanfan
"Stop being hysterical"

Re-read your linked comment wherein you quite self-evidently dismissed outright Britain's WW2 Allies from 1939-412 and/or wrote them off as mere colonial appendages thus unworthy of mention:

""Britain fought for two years against tyranny alone""

... then replace "hysterical" with "rightly appalled".

66 posted on 04/07/2007 2:54:52 PM PDT by GMMAC (Discover Canada governed by Conservatives: www.CanadianAlly.com)
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To: GMMAC

So have you given up on the original debate and just want to search through my posts to get hysterical at something not said?

Don’t go over the edge. I would rather say sorry than get you so emotional.


67 posted on 04/07/2007 3:00:40 PM PDT by Jack_Macca
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To: GMMAC

“”Britain fought for two years against tyranny alone””

A wee bit late to this one but have very much enjoyed reading this entertaining exchange. However, I’m going to wade in at the assertion that him saying ‘Britain stood alone’ between 1939-41 is a statement of monsterous misrepresentation. After all that is one of Churchills stock laments of history. When referencing Britain in that period it is phrase of the inclusiveness. The idea of ‘The British’ in the 30s and 40s is of course the Commonwealth and Empire. The pink bits on the map. Which sadly indeed were largely holding off Hitler on their own until Peral Harbour persuaded the Americans that sitting on the sidelines wasn’t going to work.

Had he said ‘England stood alone’ you would be right to get high and mighty on the linguistic point. But it seems to be you, not him, who is confusing ‘British’ and ‘English’ throughout the thread.

Carry on the pair of you..... :)


107 posted on 04/09/2007 2:19:43 PM PDT by Brit_Guy
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