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[yushin]

hmmm "debt" well I'll just say that I think most of the "world' owes the USA "jack s**t" except they have given us (the world) a collective headache over the last 100 or so years...but as an Englishman I do feel indebted to the Kiwis and Aussies and others from the Commonwealth who sacrificied their lives for us...
PS The Russians really went to bat though...check out the body counts in WWII...

[The Perfect Cup of Coffee]

This is just Brown kissin' ass as he steadies his new administration. As for "owing debts" to countries, we could play this came for the next thousand years.

Yeah, we "owe" the Yanks, like they "owe" the French for saving their asses during the Revolutionary War. And anytime a Yank opens his mouth and speaks English, they "owe" an English citizen who "owes" a Norman or a Saxon, who in turn "owes" a Roman who "owes" a Greek, blah, blah, blah.

The only people who "owe" the Yanks anything right now are the Karzai administration in Kabul and the latest Iraqi government for keeping them in power. Historical debts are just ways politicians can blow kisses at each other without getting their lips all wet and sloppy. If I were English, I'd be ashamed at the level of pandering Blair / Brown have done. Pathetic! Grow a pair!

[Ya-ta Boy]

Fill in the blank:

Blair is to poodle as Brown is to ________.


For the darkhorse:

Two names: Coral Sea and Midway.

[Dome Vans]

I'm in support of dark horse here.

This has turned into another american/rest of the world stand off. Obviously the ROW can't be that wrong, maybe it's just the americans feel as though they have to be 'thanked' for accelerating WW3.

America joined at the end of WW2 when they thought they could be heros (the real heros were the russians.) You don't see them expecting thanks. They took the body count but don't hang round waiting for the praise.

Then America makes films like U571, the one that suggests that America got the enigma machine and won the war, this along with Pearl Harbour amazes me that you can rewrite historical events when there is actual fact to say otherwise.

'the victors write the history books'

The ROW don't owe america anything, Brown is a puppet who has hopefully paid his last compliment to a corrupt and bankrupt government because the British people won't allow him to be roped into another neocon war that has ultimately accelerated the race for a NWO.

America please keep your insecurities and Paris Hiltons to yourself because we've given up caring.

[On the other hand]

[On the other hand]

[darkhorse_NZ]

[Gopher]

[darkhorse_NZ]

Where the hell did I say that we were carrying the day with a song and a lark, I just said that at least our hands were dirty, or bloody as the case may be.

I have to say thanks for tipping the balance in favour of the Allies, I'll express my gratitude.

But every day that an RAF pilot took to the sky and held off the Luftwaffe was a day that those same planes wouldn't appear over the skies of New York.

Every day a Destroyer left port or a Battalion marched out of barracks was a day that you could sit comfortable in splendid isolation.

Eventually, you came to the party and we are thankful.

But don't you for a second lord it over us with your 'saved the world' crap.
Because every time you do a veteran turns in his grave.

[Nowhere Man]

Good point.

Someone's being too Ameri-centric.

[wannago]

[darkhorse_NZ]

[Gopher]

We intervened in the First and Second World Wars because, ultimately, our interests mostly converge with Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth's more so than with Italy, Germany, and Japan's.

[Adventurer]

[darkhorse_NZ]

I see where you're coming from Gopher. If I was British I'd be ashamed of both Blair and Brown, you can be firm friends without having to give anyone's bumcrack a tonguelashing.

It's just a lot of unnecessary kowtowing and paying tribute at the throne of the Emperor.