To: UKrepublican
That's getting off pretty easy. In 1800, 20% of the US treasury per year went to paying off the Barbary coast pirates.
88 posted on
03/28/2007 5:03:01 PM PDT by
Fitzcarraldo
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To: Fitzcarraldo
"That's getting off pretty easy. In 1800, 20% of the US treasury per year went to paying off the Barbary coast pirates."
And then we had our first appeasement treaty.
218 posted on
03/28/2007 9:54:44 PM PDT by
sageb1
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