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Old 07-06-2002, 07:46 AM   #17
Ar-Cunin
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Join Date: August 14, 2001
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Age: 52
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Originally posted by johnny:
quote:
Originally posted by K T Ong:
The Japanese in the 19th Century wanted the Americans to leave them alone. It was the Americans who forced the Japanese to open themselves up. Ask Commodore Perry.
What are you saying ? America invited Japan to bomb Pearl Harbour ? Do you realise how ridiculous that sounds ?[/QUOTE]Invite - no
provoke - closer to the target (f.x. trade embargo)

And Perry was from 1854(?)
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