[JoeProBono]

[RVN Airplane Driver]

That Senator was the right thing to do.....

[mainsail that]

I know many here will slam this but many polices were wrong and apologizing for them is a sign of strength. Horrible things did happen, let’s face it.

[Sacajaweau]

I wish folks would stop the PC with the indians. They played the game. If it wasn't for us, they probably would have killed each other off. It's the same tribal problems of Afghanistan and other "tribal" countries.

Were we perfect?? No....but no one did more for the indians than the white man!!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Good first step.

Now, there are billions of dollars in back treaty obligations yet to be met.

The treaties are supposed to be the law of the land.

[fifthestate]

Well that’s fine but are the Indians going to apologize for raiding our wagon trains?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Have we apologized to the Chinese Communists for our treatment of their coolies in the 19th Century and “volunteers” during the Korean war? How about the Vietnamese Communists for how rough we were on their regulars and Viet Cong during that war? Will they send a delegation to Germany and Argentina to apologize to the Nazis?

[svcw]

I am sick to death of the apologies.

[Mr. Blonde]

Mistakes were made, not a bad thing to admit that. A lot of those mistakes are still causing problems today.

[Non-Sequitur]

Must be going after the Kiowa, Osage, and Pawnee vote in the Kansas governors race.

[Gator113]

Apologize for what?

We weren’t here then. Neither were they... for crying out loud.

I know, how about we simply make a few dozen Congressional Declarations to the various victim groups that simply reads, “It must suck to be you”.

Enough of this generational pity party.

As you may be able to see, I’m not sorry for a damn thing. Brownback was an idiot for doing this.

After 2012, I better see blacks, catholics, union slimes, Indians, American Jews and a few other groups tripping over themselves trying to get to me to be the first to apologize for putting that worthless POS in the White House and for all the generational damage he’s done to our country.

If my post has offended anyone that has ever existed on this planet, I am so very very sorry.

Cry me a river..

[Viking2002]

My wife is half Cherokee, and is fully aware of her ancestry and tribal history. Having said that, the only hyphenated-American she is, is Pissed Off-American over all the PC divisiveness and the dwelling upon things that were and never will be changed with belated platitudes and token apologies. If all the hyphenated Africans, hyphenated Latinos, and hyphenated whatevers could drill that into their noggins, maybe this country would be a 'United' States of America. It's otherwise nothing but a 'Gimme! Gimme! Me first!' flophouse of shiftless Victim-Americans, always looking for an open vein to suck the blood from.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[freespirited]

"It's difficult to issue an apology and sometimes it's difficult to accept one," Smith said by phone from Washington. "Once you put those differences of the past aside, perhaps the next step is, can you do any better in this round? That's where our greatest challenge is. The history of the U.S. (toward American Indians) is not a bright record. The real question is, what happens from this day forward?"

IOW, the apology is just the beginning. Brownback is a fool.

[3boysdad]

[lacrew]

I hate these apologies...but I hope he will be our next governor.

In 1846, the Indians sold, by treaty, 2 million acres in Kansas for $0.10/acre. I just checked, and Senator Brownback’s property is a quarter mile from the southern boundary of these lands...but his land was not part of this ‘deal’.

[Bean Counter]

Just a side note....

I’m about halfway through Nathaniel Philbrick’s excellent new book “The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn”. It’s quite a read, includes a lot of maps and references, and I’m taking my time with this one.

Philbrick takes the numerous different written accounts and actual interviews with some of the Warriors who were at the battle, and comes out with a distinctly different view of George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull. His premise is that most of us have an impression of Custer that is primarily driven by the Dustin Hoffman movie “Little Big Man” (there really was a Warrior at the battle by that name...) that portrays Custer as demented and totally incompetent, which is anything but true.

Custer was the greatest Cavalry Officer the Union Army ever produced in the Civil War, and was also considered the Country’s greatest Indian fighter; and when news of his death at the Little Big Horn came right at the Centennial, it was the 911 event of that time and rocked the Nation. How was it possible that our greatest Indian fighter was slaughtered with all of his men??

Of course Wounded Knee is widely viewed as retaliation for the massacre at the Little Big Horn...

Good reading, and available at Costco. (I sweat I have bought more good books there over the years than from any other source.)

Now back to our regular broadcast...

[Kandy Atz]

Meanwhile, we have nationalized car companies, government run healthcare, an invasion along our southern border, and 10-20% unemployment. What exactly does an American representative, who had absolutely nothing to do with any atrocity, apologizing to an American Indian, who was not around when it happened, help anyone? I ask that with Cherokee blood going through my veins.

Wars are waged, lands are lost, to the victors go the spoils. This apology nonsense accomplishes nothing.

I also trace one side of my family back to Norman invaders of England. Maybe I need to go on tour and apologize to the Saxons, Angles and anyone else who thinks they were inconvenienced. Of course the Anglo-Saxons were invaders themselves and so were the Romans and on and on. Would the “original” owners of England please stand up and be recognized so we can all apologize?

[Secret Agent Man]

Why are we still apologizing? How many times do people have to apologize for past wrongs? These people are implacable.

Do we think for a minute the indians, if they would have won, would apologize to us? HAve they ever apologized for massacres they’ve caused? Have they ever apologized to the other tribes they constantly were fighting and killing brutally? Do they have to keep apologizing again and again?

I am so sick of this sh1t.

[annelizly]

Oh for god sake! if things hadn’t gone down exactly as they did we wouldn’t have the USA and so many people around the world would be SOL!!

I for one think that everything happened exactly as it was supposed to. I can assure you that my indian husband is perfectly happy that his family was “civilized” by the “white man”.