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Originally posted by decadence
Sigh. I don't think the questionable anti-Brit holier than thou comments are a good idea. I think it's a facile argument to have. It's as bad and inappropriate a Brit coming along saying "Hey you Americans how do you like the fact the allied forces held Germany/Japan etc at bay for years before you "deigned" to step in preferring to stay out and hide due to the high Germanic populations in PA etc. If we hadn't done such a good job keeping them at bay the invading forces would've gone unchecked and on from strength to strength and Pearl Harbor woulda been much worse- can we hear a yee-ha?!"
That'd be distasteful & unconscionable not to mention dumb to put it unforgivably mildly!
Huh? Do *I* sing it? Er have done. Not regularly mind 
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LOL @ you guy, you need to get many things straight about your knowledge of history.
First, I oppose the war to a certain extent but I feel that the U.S. had to step in as to qwell the horror that Saddam was projecting onto his people.
I think it's safe to say that "allied forces" were infact nearly, if not, were losing until the U.S. decided to step in. And our country was hiding? Nah, how about we didn't want to be the world police, I mean after all, look at the hatred coming from the rest of the world for our occupation of Iraq. Or maybe we didn't want to step in after the first WW. I doubt there was much of that when we decided to enter WWII. It had nothing to do with vast German populations in the U.S. Furthermore, quite a few German citizens living in the U.S. decided to answer the call from Germany and go back to the motherland to take up arms agains the so-called "Allies." (My father's family had issues with this, my great-grandfather actually went back with some of his brothers, oddly enough his son, my grandfather was a solider for the U.S.)
As for your argument regarding the allies holding Germany and Japan at bay until the U.S. entered the war, I say this to you: Germany was taking over Europe, they basically walked into France, they were bombing the U.K. on a daily basis, their occupation spread rapidly which took control of many countries and it was on the verge of threatening occupation of the former Soviet Union. So you mean to tell me that was the plan? That's how the allies kept Hitler at bay, by allowing him to conquer most of Europe? By allowing him to occupy certain countries with almost no resistance at all?
When your government, or any other government that borrowed money from the U.S. in order to rebuild after WWII decides to pay us back, hell, even decides to pay us back the INTEREST that we are owed on these loans, then maybe we'll have something to talk about.