Using the past to justify the invasion of IRAQ

[Tattila the Hun]

"...simply refused Tripoli's demand for a tribute. That provoked Tripoli to declare war on us..."

This should be at Civ: Strategy section, in "AI declared war on me, what do I do?"


"...or sold our sailors into slavery."

And this was prior 1801? I'm too lazy to check out, but how many slaves were there in the USA at that time? It's a pity that the african tribes didn't have frigates to send to shell Norfolk. The courageous Impi marines would have stormed the weak American defences easily!

[laurentius]

heres your 'heroic' men of the year http://www.informationclearinghouse....rticle5365.htm

[Verto]

We've already had that joke posted before.

[VetLegion]

...or sold our sailors into slavery."

And this was prior 1801? I'm too lazy to check out, but how many slaves were there in the USA at that time? It's a pity that the african tribes didn't have frigates to send to shell Norfolk.

Good point as to how 'moral' the whole thing was.

Regarding the article, I completely fail to see the analogy to Iraq.

Better one would be British-French war against Egypt, although that ended in a failure, and Iraq did not.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by VetLegion
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Regarding the article, I completely fail to see the analogy to Iraq.

Really? It's the same exact situation except for the slaves, the ransom, the ships, the pirates, Thomas Jefferson, and the fact that they declared war on us.

[VetLegion]

Ah, if you put it that way

[MrFun]

Re: Using the past to justify the invasion of IRAQ

Originally posted by rah
Back then, pirates from the North African states of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli routinely plundered and seized our ships, demanded ransoms for captive crews or sold our sailors into slavery. European shipping routinely suffered the same fate.

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Yeah -- because United States and the European countries had their hands clean when it came to slavery, right??

[DinoDoc]

Re: Re: Using the past to justify the invasion of IRAQ

Originally posted by MrFun
Yeah -- because United States and the European countries had their hands clean when it came to slavery, right??

We also declared war on the UK for forcing our sailors into slavery.