--- In [email protected], "suziezuzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], bob_brigante <no_reply@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote:
> > > I'm pretty sure Nabby is German, and just for the record, 
> Americans
> > > performed the Berlin Air Lift for free.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > **************
> > 
> > The Americans didn't give a damn about the Krauts, who they 
burned, 
> > men, women and children by the hundreds of thousands in the 
> pointless 
> > firebombing of German cities in WWII. The Berlin Air Lift was not 
a 
> > humanitarian gesture, but an attempt to keep the Russkis from 
> taking 
> > over more of Germany as their exclusive military outpost (rather 
> than 
> > the Americans keeping their many bases in Germany). 
> > http://tinyurl.com/2d4hy6
> >
> I remember my business law teacher in high school refer to this 
event 
> as a whimp out by Kennedy because at that time, the US had the 
> dominant nucleur position over the Russians and could have simply 
> blasted the wall down. The Russians would have been in no position 
to 
> respond.
>

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