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Not the Alamo I know
Dallas Morning News ^
| 6/3/2007
| Rod Dreher
Posted on 06/04/2007 12:04:48 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Old Student
Storming fortified positions is never an easy thing, and almost always costly.
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posted on
06/22/2007 9:48:46 PM PDT
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Vanders9
To: PeterFinn
Hmm....maybe the French used their Foreign Legion? :)
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06/22/2007 9:49:17 PM PDT
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Vanders9
To: Altura Ct.
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posted on
06/22/2007 9:56:31 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Altura Ct.
As someone who has spent alot of time in Mexico, and talked with many Mexicans, you folks should know that after General Huerta, Santa Anna is the most hated man in Mexican history. Who could love a man who had a funeral procession for his leg, hated Indians (in a nation where the majority of the population is of Indian ancestry), and LOST A THIRD OF HIS COUNTRY DUE LARGELY TO INCOMPETANCE!
In the end, Santa Anna's only friend was fellow Mason Sam Houston, who spared his life after JLdeSA gave Sam the Masonic handshake of distress.
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06/22/2007 10:01:21 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: Vanders9
“Storming fortified positions is never an easy thing, and almost always costly.”
Particularly when unnecessary. Santa Anna could easily have left a blocking force to keep the Alamo’s defenders penned up inside, and gone on to crush the Texians elsewhere, then come back to deal with them.
Instead, he gave the Texians a rallying cry that still scares the Mexicans.
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06/23/2007 8:46:19 AM PDT
by
Old Student
(We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
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