"Mexico - Never conquered by America.
Hawaii - Conquered by Britain I believe, and handed over to the US.
Samoa - American Samoa (population 70,000). Other Samoan islands not controlled by US.
Puerto Rico - Actually under Spanish control when US and Spain were at war. Thus they took over it.
Phillipines - "Spain was forced by Paris officials to hand over Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the United States in exchange for US$20,000,000.00, which the United States later claim to be a gift."
See? Never conquered anywhere."
Mexico - What is now Texas used to be owned by Mexico.
Hawaii - Wrong. America recognized Hawaii as an independent nation in 1826, and Britain and France did so in 1843. The islands were illegally annexed by President McKinley in 1898, after the "Bayonet Constitution" stripped the native people of their land rights. For more info, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonet_Constitution
Samoa - I was referring to American Samoa.
Puerto Rico - actually, you're right on this one
Phillippines - like most of America, you are forgetting the 1899 Filipino-American War, the brutal war that followed the Spanish-American war. America (still hungry for western expansion) tried to declare the Phillippines an American colony. American author, Mark Twain, wrote extensively about this war. An interesting article on Twain and the Filipino-American War can be viewed at http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/twain.html
"Mexico - Never conquered by America.
Hawaii - Conquered by Britain I believe, and handed over to the US.
Samoa - American Samoa (population 70,000). Other Samoan islands not controlled by US.
Puerto Rico - Actually under Spanish control when US and Spain were at war. Thus they took over it.
Phillipines - "Spain was forced by Paris officials to hand over Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the United States in exchange for US$20,000,000.00, which the United States later claim to be a gift."
See? Never conquered anywhere."
"The New World" - Conquered by Americans to make up what is now America.
The "United States" is just another word for Empire . The name just misleads you into thinking that it was done in a nice way. Sure, they signed stuff, the governors agreed to unite into one massive country... but the states themselves were taken from the natives. It's a very similar style to the feudal days when warlords used to conquer their own stuff, later to be united to a bigger country. But as it's been around so long and has such great PR, nobody ever believes it is an empire. Who wouldn't support a native-slaying, African enslaving, anti-communist, profit-focused country who overthrows presidents and kill terrorists in the name of Lady Freedom?
I'm kinda wondering what effect European Union would have on the world in the future. Hmm.. same currency, trying to pass similar laws, sounds like the Soviet Union to me .
Disclaimer: Any sarcasm in my posts will not be mentioned as that would ruin the purpose. It is assumed that the reader is intelligent enough to tell the difference between what is sarcasm and what is not.
I know thet George W. Bush is a misearble failure, but the only reason that that comes up first in google is because of a bunch of "hackers" (if you will) that figured out Googles system for finding relavent pages, and abused it. I think that they all have a ton of blogs that have terms such as "miserable failure" and "idiot" and then put links to sites about George W. Bush. It's still kinda funnt though.
""The New World" - Conquered by Americans to make up what is now America. "
*Sigh* There were no Americans before America was colonised you dipshit. Is was all done by Europeans, mainly British and Spanish, but also Dutch, French etc. And when you say "America" do you mean the US or the Americas?
So Bush just attacked Iraq because Shaddam Hussein was the most evil person he knew at the moment? Oh how fun it would be to be a president of world leading country... I could just decide to attack someone I think is evil and kill loads of civilians in process and tell afterwards that it was just necessary collateral damage.
War and shooting is so much fun, I wonder why don't we set all countries' laws as they have in america, so you can carry a gun if you want... It woud be much safer for everyone, wouldn't it? To know that if someone seems or feels to threaten you, you can just shoot him/her.
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. The name just misleads you into thinking that it was done in a nice way. Sure, they signed stuff, the governors agreed to unite into one massive country... but the states themselves were taken from the natives. It's a very similar style to the feudal days when warlords used to conquer their own stuff, later to be united to a bigger country. But as it's been around so long and has such great PR, nobody ever believes it is an empire. Who wouldn't support a native-slaying, African enslaving, anti-communist, profit-focused country who overthrows presidents and kill terrorists in the name of Lady Freedom?
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