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To: 2ndDivisionVet
signing up foreigners who are seeking US citizenship

This is exactly what ancient Romans started to do at certain point of their history.

3 posted on 12/26/2006 10:06:07 AM PST by A. Pole (Saint Augustine: "The truth speaks from the bottom of the heart without the noise of words")
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To: A. Pole
This is exactly what ancient Romans started to do at certain point of their history

And we all know how well that worked out.

When the barbarians guard the gates....

27 posted on 12/26/2006 10:29:59 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: A. Pole

signing up foreigners who are seeking US citizenship
This is exactly what ancient Romans started to do at certain point of their history.

More recent history is Germany. Wasn't even the SS was largely foreign by end of war?


38 posted on 12/26/2006 10:36:59 AM PST by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: A. Pole
This is exactly what ancient Romans started to do at certain point of their history.

This country won its independence largely at the hands of foreigners. A goodly portion of the officers who trained and led the nascent American army and navy were foreign mercenaries.

Likening the plight of the American republic to the Roman Empire is simply intellectual laziness.

50 posted on 12/26/2006 11:04:53 AM PST by Junior (Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.)
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To: A. Pole

"This is exactly what ancient Romans started to do at certain point of their history."

Maybe we should try recruiting Gauls!


63 posted on 12/26/2006 11:23:23 AM PST by dljordan
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To: A. Pole
This is exactly what ancient Romans started to do at certain point of their history.

Yep, during the "End of Empire" phase.

90 posted on 12/26/2006 1:27:32 PM PST by GingisK
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