"Judah" wrote in message
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One of the other posters brought up the Native Americans... Do you think
any innocent Native Americans might have been killed back then? I haven't
read much about it in the history books, so maybe it didn't happen...

Let me think - that's a hard one - umm, umm, umm. I think every native
American was innocent until the white man came and began robbing them, then
killing them. Do you suggest that when the American Indian began to fight
back they stopped being innocent and then as a whole became guilty and
worthy of extermination? Genocide in today's parlance.

I don't suppose there is too much in the history books. It is not going to
say that the US people in building the nation were guilty of ethnic
cleansing, on a scale that make criminals out of today's ethnic cleansers.