No, not what John was referring to. John was specific in his 'tried to kill their own' comment.

Unrelated, and NOT condoning what happened to the native americans, but what did the europeans do to the native americans that the native americans never did to themselves previously?



>>I wasn't thinking of the U.S. but other western countries throughout history...
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>what about the suppression of native indians?
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>>>>>It seems most of the countries that haven't tried to kill their own, have been western civilizations.
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>>>>Uh oh, not gonna touch that with a 10 foot pole... :O)
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>>>Hmmm, I must have missed the reports about Bush ordering the extermination of hundreds of thousands of people here in the US? I don't even remember Bill "The Evil One" Clinton doing anything comparable to Saddam's exterminations, or Pol Pot, or Hitler, or . . . .