uh...no, the British/colonists did the same thing during the French and Indian wars (oh, but wait...that wasn't US! That was the Brits!) Similar tactics were used all the way up into the late 1800's. Ya know, if it works once....

>Dorris, get your history straight.
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>It was the Spanish conquistadors who did the whole smallpox in blankets thing. AFAIK it's not a strategy we used.
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>>No, we just handed them smallpox in blankets, starved them, marched them across the country, let them die of diseases "because they weren't worth the medicine", robbed them of their heritage, customs and language, crammed then into festering pits that were called 'prisons', hung them, burned them...shall I continue?. You've really GOT to quit throwing glasses in your rock house.