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vlyons

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5. Do these fools ever read history?
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 04:12 AM
Apr 2017

Let's see hmmmm

Gen Robt E Lee thought a battle in Gettysburg PA would save the South and end the civil war.
Hitler thought that invading Russia would destroy communism and keep the Russians from invading Germany.
Napolean thought invading Russia would complete the unification of his European empire.
Imperial Japan thought that attacking Pearl Harbor would keep the US from invading Japan.
Tsar Nicholas of Russia thought that invading Austria would be a war that would last about 1 month.

Elizabeth I of England, to her credit, did her best to keep England out of wars, because she thought the outcomes were uncertain.

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