Posted on 05/03/2006 7:59:57 AM PDT by farmer18th
"On Sept. 14, 1847, American troops entered Mexico City, where they remained until peace was restored."
--Answers.com
Perhaps we need to have a holiday of our own--to counter the Mecha, Reconquista crowd?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/ghtreaty/
Too close to September 11, which I would rather see remembered.
Can we pin down the specific date when Mexico became a third-world hellhole?
It was sometime between the ascendency of the Aztecs and about now.
We have cause to celebrate on 4th of July, Independence day,
and remember the Alamo!
"On April 21, forty-six days after the fall of the Alamo, less than 800 angered Texans and American volunteers led by General Sam Houston launched a furious attack on the Mexican army of 1,500 at San Jacinto. Shouting "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!", they completely routed the Mexican army in a matter of minutes, killing six hundred and thirty while losing nine. Santa Anna was captured. Texas was free; a new republic was born."
"Remember the Alamo" Like it. You can't be called a racist just for remembering American history. Or can you?
Don't forget General Pershing's chase of Ponco Villa in 1915
And what's more, the US Govt. PAID Mexico $15 million and another $3 million to Mexican and American landowners who had claims against the Mexican Govt. This was the price agreed to establish the border at the Rio Grande and ceded CA, AZ, NM, & TX to the US forever -- a tiny item forgotten in all this bluster.
The US rights to our territory were won on the battlefield and settled through monetary payments agreed under law by all of the governments involved in 1848 -- Republic of CA, US Government, Mexican Government, etc., etc. (I think Texas was already a state by then, although still disputed by some Mexicans.
How many battles does Gen. Santa Anna have to lose, anyway? The spectre of SA trying to sneak away from the rout at San Jacinto dressed in a Private's uniform says it all.
BTW, California residents were happy to declare independence from Mexico (even those of Mexican and Spanish heritege) because Mexico had made such a mess of ruling CA after they won their independance from Spain. They broke up the Missions and the Hacienda system and drove the Indians back into savagery.
I believe that there were less than 1000 Californians of Anglo descent at the time independence was declared. Besides the Indians, the rest of them were Spanish land grant holders and Franciscan Padres.
In a disguise, as I remember. See #9.
Since Mexico is essentially invading the United States, I think it is time we invade Mexico.
Let's pick some clearly definable boundary, say 26 degrees N latitude, and send the U.S. military in to secure all the land north of that line.
We could use some catchy phrase, say "26 in '06".
Then, hold a national auction to parcel off sections of that previously-Mexican land to the highest bidder and require that high bidder to make the indigenous people 1/3 vested owners in the new enterprises.
This new area would become the 51st state, and we could name it Cortezland.
We could set reasonable rules such as all official transactions will be conducted in the English language after, say, January 1, 2010.
Piece of cake, win-win for everyone.
About the time Mexico became a country.
We'd have to abolish our welfare programs first...
Arrrr....
Swab the deck, ye scurvy dog!
ARRR!
texas won their independance? no way. the mexicans keep saying we stole t from them!
Well said.
If the lying, corrupt government of Mexico were eliminated, and a treaty with the US instituted, we'd own that country in a week.
Our senior citizens alone could take that beautiful country using nothing but their Visa cards.
In all of this uproar, I have yet to read a systematic analyis of where American hispanics really stand on this. I've seen some crowd shots with hundreds of American flags flying and virtually no Mexican flags--and then you see all the FMLN, Che, Marxist rif-raff shots as well.
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