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…with an annoying sense of irony. The cost of a war especially right now after 9/11 in our weaken economic state, would further the national debt at a fire storm pace and may make a dramatic increase in the inflation of our money. I would not want…

…, retreated from Quatre Bras to the village of Waterloo. Napoleon overtook them late on June 17. Because of the heavy rain that night, he could not attack until the next morning. His artillery could not move until the ground dried. He delayed the attack until 11:00…

…. Near Great Meadows, Washington surrounded and attacked a party of thirty-three Frenchmen. Ten Frenchmen were killed, and twenty-two were captured. This action has been credited with starting the Seven Year's War. The French sent out nine hundred men…

…. 1954 – Shooting in the U.S. House of Representatives. Five members of congress are wounded by gunfire during an attack by Puerto Rican nationalists. 1972 – Fraunces Tavern Bombing. Four people die in this bombing at a historic tavern in downtown New Your…

…. These groups blame all immigrants for taking jobs away from the majority. These groups will violently attack or even kill to get their so-called justice. They feel that for all the years whites persecuted blacks that blacks owe them something. Their ignorance…

…branded him inept. In July he moved his base up the Rio Grande to Camargo, but it was only in August that Taylor began planning the attack on Monterrey. By this time American strength on the Rio Grande had swollen to nearly 20,000 troops, nearly all volunteers…

…. The message was clear: the threat posed by Islamist extremists is much greater than that posed by Saddam Hussein. And it will get worse when the US and Britain attack Iraq. Tony Blair may not want to admit it, but this is the common view throughout the higher…

…. Doctors who prescribe pills are required to inform the potential users of the risks. 1 in 14,000 users between the ages of 30 and 39 will experience heart attacks, and stokes occur five times more frequently among pill users (1 in 2,700). The risks for smokers…

…. The PLO operated from its bases located in refugee camps and villages in southern Lebanon and east of the Jordan River. Israel launched retaliatory attacks into Lebanon and Jordan in response to assaults originating from those camps and villages. This caused…

…faltering over the past few years, mainly as a result of the actions of the United States and its professed nuclear posture after the terrorist attacks it suffered on 11 September 2001. The withdrawal of the United States from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty…