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Old 04-23-2008, 13:04 PM   #50 (permalink)
Albany Rifles
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As for slavery in the US. yes, it is a dark spot on our history. And yes, our Constitution legallay recognizes slavery in 3 separate parts in the original document. But 5% of our population died (600,000 out of 30.5 million) to end slavery and then we amended our Constitution to end slavery in all forms with the 13th Amendment.

Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I agree our treatment of Native Americans is not something of which we can be particulalry proud....bt again, that is something which is very much in our history. Currently the insistence of the Nations of preserving their unique heritage precludes the US Government from doing much to assist them. Local and state governments can not help them. But if you do a search of the Congressional Records you can find federal legislation under consideration to amend the Bureau of Indian Affairs and to improve the laws which will allow more local interaction.

Democracy is hard and we work at it everyday. But it is worth th eeffort.

And to date approx 41,500 Iraqis have been killed, about 6800 of which were Security Forces. However, the vast number of those dead are nto the result of US Actions.

Oh, and I didn't have to look up the number. I hear it daily on our news as well as in my local paper.

In a free society we get the whole story with no cencorship.

Your defence of the CCP may be understandable but I believe it is misguided. As I have stated before I have spent most of my adult life fighting communism because I believe it to be an abhorent, corrupt and dehumanizing form of government.

That is why I hold my opinions of the CCP. It is the same opinion I hold about ANY communist party anywhere in the world.
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