Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25133206-20150605034943/@comment-25906239-20150606145438

Ok, I love taking the unpopular opinion, and most people here seem to be Bush haters and British lovers. First, let me address the British. As I live in Connecticut, the arms supplier of the US in the Revolution and 1812 and the Civil War, and our state song is Yankee Doodle in defiance of the British, we tend to take a more anti British approach to the Revolution and 1812. The British army WAS the best army and navy in the world in both these wars, and it is absolutely astounding that the colonies beat them in the revolution, and were not recaptured in the war of 1812. All around, 1812 was good for the US. Dominion over our north western territories, and end to the Oregon Country dispute, an end to impressment by the British on the seas, and a surge in national pride that really turned America into a strong nation on the global scale, even if a policy of neutrality would be exercized for the next 100 years. As for Bush, he wasn't a good president. But, Afganistan had a reason, as the Taliban were funding Al-Queda, were a brutal regime, and gave refuge to Al-Queda. Iraq, on the other hand, was more like a front to seem to be doing something against terrorism. Saddam was evil, and he was conducting a genocide against the Kurds, the most repressed minority in the middle east in the last century, along with christians. Saddam DID have WMD, in the form of chemical weapons he used on his own people, especially the Kurds. Not nukes, but still classified as a WMD. Dick Cheney is the one who you should direct your hate to, because he is a straight up lier, even worse a VP than the hilariously bad Joe Biden we have now. Also, when the US entered WW11, the Axis was not in defeat, but at the height of its power. No US in WW11 = Axis Victory. With no US to contend with, the axis could push on two fronts, Asia and Europe, on Russia, destroying the USSR's vast resources in the East, as well a sbeing able to focus on Egypt rather than the American invasion of Morroco, most likely taking it over, cutting off the Suez, and using the Middle East to supply its war machine, dooming the USSR and Britain even more than they already were in this scenario.