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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Not so simple, back in the day. Many[Thousands and thousands] Filipinos were promised US citizenship if they fought against the japs. Truman and Congress reneged on their offer and set the stage for mistrust for decades to come.
38 posted on 10/23/2016 6:00:40 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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It would have been better to make the Philippines a territory of the US.


40 posted on 10/23/2016 6:02:58 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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