In a speech he delivered at the State Department yesterday, President Bush said that “America’s actions have never been guided by territorial ambition.” Didn’t he take any history classes in school? Has he never heard of:
- Northwest Indian War (1787-1795)
- U.S. taking Western Florida from Spain in 1813
- War of 1812 (1812-1815)
- First Seminole War (1818-1819)
- Arikara War (1823)
- Indian Removal Act of 1830
- Black Hawk War (1832)
- Creek War (1836)
- Texas Revolutionary War (1835-1836)
- Second Seminole War (1835-1842)
- annexation of Texas (1845)
- Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
- Cayuse War (1848-1855)
- Third Seminole War (1855-1858)
- Yakima War (1855-1858)
- Navajo Wars (1861-1886)
- Lamalcha War (1863)
- Apache Wars (1863, 1885-1886)
- Colorado War (1864-1865)
- Chilcotin War (1864)
- Red Cloud’s War (1866-1868)
- Comanche Campaign (1867-1875)
- Modoc War (1872-1873)
- Red River War (1874-1875)
- Sioux War (1876)
- Black Hills War (1876-1877)
- Nez Perce War (1877)
- Bannock War (1878)
- Cheyenne War (1878-1879)
- Ute War (1879-1880)
- Pine Ridge Campaign (1890-1891)
- Spanish-American War (1898)
- annexation of Hawaii (1898)
I’d have exected Bush to have at least heard of the annexation of Texas, and the Mexican-American War, given that he was Governor of Texas.
Perhaps the U.S. does not currently have territorial ambitions, but it is the pinnacle of hypocrisy to claim that other countries do while the U.S. never has.
Bush: “America’s actions have never been guided by territorial ambition.”
In a speech he delivered at the State Department yesterday, President Bush said that “America’s actions have never been guided by territorial ambition.” Didn’t he take any history classes in school? Has he never heard of:
I’d have exected Bush to have at least heard of the annexation of Texas, and the Mexican-American War, given that he was Governor of Texas.
Perhaps the U.S. does not currently have territorial ambitions, but it is the pinnacle of hypocrisy to claim that other countries do while the U.S. never has.