what do you have to say about Great Britain? they never attacked us and we went to war with them.
2007-05-03 15:59:48 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
they attacked us with their stupid accents and disgusting tea.
2007-05-03 17:33:20 · answer #1 · answered by bleh 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Well you are definitely getting a lot of impassioned responses. Honestly the two aren't similar. We invaded another country. We were part of Britain and subject to the Crown. We decided we didn't like being treated like a red-headed stepchild and decided we'd be better off governing ourselves. The British perspective was not so unlike Lincoln's when the the Southern States tried to pull the same stunt.
Our Revolution seems to be little understood by the vast majority of Americans including those who keep telling you to read up on your history.
I think we could all use a little primer.
2007-05-03 23:21:28 · answer #2 · answered by KERMIT M 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That was Great Britain's colonies attacking Great Britain. Basically a civil war, more so a rebellion though.
Haven't you ever heard of the story of Paul Revere and 'the British are coming!!' bla bla bla. Obviously they were coming to fight us, and it isn't like the could send their ships overnight, they were coming to discipline the colonies, and the colonies weren't cool with it.
2007-05-03 23:08:13 · answer #3 · answered by spidermilk666 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Are you talking about the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812?
I don't think comparing a revolution to an invasion is very logical. And in the war of 1812 they were taking sailors as prisoners and impressing them, which is a hostile act.
2007-05-03 23:04:13 · answer #4 · answered by rationalkazmarov 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Well actually they did attack us.
During the revolutionary war, they sent 20,000 troops over, after we declared ourselves a solemn nation.
During the war of 1812, they would capture our ships and force the crews to work on their ships, they captured about 10,000 US sailors.
they also invaded Michigan on August 16, 1812, and captured and burned the White House & Congress in 1814.
2007-05-04 01:04:23 · answer #5 · answered by joecignyc 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wrong--America was attacked first by Great Britain--both times. Do neocons EVER learn ANY history?
2007-05-03 23:06:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
That's an asinine question. It was our war for independance. In our civil war, we did have some involvement from Britain.
2007-05-03 23:06:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
well... you could saying levying a tax on us without represenatation is an attack?
or you could say that when we wanted our freedom, them shooting at us was attacking us?
but we weren't even a nation that could be attacked at the time? so it's a pretty silly point...
"we" as an official nation didn't really fight them I guess until... what? 1812 again? and I think they did attack us that time...
2007-05-03 23:03:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because resources are being used there that could being used against those who actually have attacked us.
2007-05-03 23:06:35 · answer #9 · answered by Nobody Special 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
we did we go to war with them.
if your talking about the american revolution, we went to war because they ruled over us and were making it pretty hard for the colonies. that war was fought in our home land not in a theirs, and we had our reasons for it, (and not the reason "to clean up daddy's (bush sr) mistakes)
2007-05-03 23:05:21 · answer #10 · answered by Erik N 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
that was completly different we diden't want to be ruled by forein ruling we wanted our own parliment basicly iraq we shouldent have even bothered with we shouldent force our own goverenment down there throats its up to the iraqi people what type of government they want
2007-05-03 23:05:56 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋