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To: muawiyah

You can’t be serious.


5 posted on 07/05/2010 5:06:08 PM PDT by Melas
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To: Melas
Not everyone in this 1/4 ancestry from Germany country agreed with the idea of joining with the Brits to beat up the Ottomans and the Axis (Germany and Austro-Hungary).

The Eastern European community in Chicago cut a deal with Wilson ~ if they pacified their constituencies here to accept the WWI draft then Wilson would make sure their language compatriots back in the old country would get their own nationstates, to wit, Hungary, Austria, Serbia, Slovenia, Poland, etc.

In retrospect when it comes to the Middle East we were certainly ahead with the Ottomans running things ~ and they were quite willing to sell land to the Jews (starting with the Golan Heights themselves).

I try to take as an objective view of WWI as possible ~ and the British argument for our entry on their side still doesn't add up.

7 posted on 07/05/2010 5:24:19 PM PDT by muawiyah
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