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To: wideawake
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Hamilton never couched the issue in terms of spreading representative government. He wanted to annex territory. Are you suggesting we do the same for Iraq? If not, you are a modern Wilsonian.

I agree that Wilson was a scumbag but even the neo-cons admit that he was the founder of the effort to spread to democracy (rather than annex territory) through force of arms. As LBJ would say, Wilson might be scumbag but he's your scumbag. Deal with it.

22 posted on 04/16/2008 7:53:12 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Captain Kirk
he's your scumbag

Not in the slightest. Your argument has degenerated into: "You must agree with Wilson because I say you have to agree with Wilson."

Balderdash.

Wilson actually believed his 14 points would bring perpetual peace to Europe.

Hamilton never indulged such folly.

Wilson was a liberal Democrat and a Jeffersonian. He has nothing to do with me, a conservative Republican and a Hamiltonian.

24 posted on 04/16/2008 8:22:44 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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