Originally posted by goukilock
reply to post by Solarskye

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are you talking about me or you, I'm getting confused

do You have this paperwork you refer to?

and come to think of it, just what are you talking about?

thank god for TOP SECRET?

your no patriot, your a poser

Patriots question there leadership, and if leadership screws up, Patriots kicks them to the curb

that doesn't happen anymore

because people don't even consider what the original patriots did in the first place

and that was Questioning the Authority

Thats the spirit of America, Revolution, not Wars, not how many bad ass guns we got, and certainly not how many countries we occupy

Yeah you don't know much about history, or your ignoring HUGE chunks of it

Which is it

Originally posted by Kr0n0s
reply to post by jimbo999

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Pfft, the USofA would've pwnt Rome FTW!!!
As far as "great" Britain goes... I think we've already proven that one, even though the young USA had just learned to walk and "great" Britain was the most powerful country in the world at that time.
Hmm, I wonder if there is a lessen to be learned in there?? Anyone else see the irony here?
BTW, the :lol" between Great and Britain was just me havin fun, I love our cousins across the pond

The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its colonies, including Upper Canada (Ontario), Lower Canada (Quebec), Nova Scotia, Bermuda and Newfoundland.

The war was fought from 1812 to 1815, although a peace treaty was signed in 1814. By the end of the war, 1,600 British and 2,260 American soldiers had died.[5] Great Britain had been at war with France since 1793 and in order to impede neutral trade with France in response to the Continental Blockade, Britain imposed a series of trade restrictions that the U.S. contested as illegal under international law.[6] The Americans declared war on Britain on June 18, 1812 for a combination of reasons including outrage at the impressment (conscription) of American sailors into the British navy, frustration at British restraints on neutral trade, and anger at alleged British military support for American Indians defending their tribal lands from encroaching American settlers.[7]

The decisive use of naval power came on the Great Lakes and depended on a contest of building ships. In 1813, the Americans won control of Lake Erie and cut off British and native forces to the west from their supplies. The British ultimately held Lake Ontario, preventing any major American invasion. The Americans controlled Lake Champlain, and naval victory there forced a large invading British army to turn back in 1814.

The Americans destroyed the power of the native people of the northwest and southeast, securing a major war goal. The trade restrictions and impressment by the British ended with the defeat of France, removing another cause of the war. Both nations agreed to a peace that left the prewar boundaries intact.

In January 1815 after the Treaty of Ghent was signed but before the US Congress had received a copy to ratify, the Americans succeeded in defending New Orleans, and the British captured Fort Bowyer before news of the treaty reached combatants on the south coast.

The war had the effect of uniting Canadians and also uniting Americans more closely than either population had been. Canadians remember the war as a victory by avoiding conquest, while Americans celebrate victory personified in Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, who became the 7th President of the United States in 1829

United States
Regular Army: 7,000 (at start of war) 35,800 (at war's end)
•Rangers: 3,049
•Militia: 458,463*
•US Navy: (at start of war):
•Frigates:6
•Other vessels: 14
•Indigenous people

•British Empire
British Army: 5,200 (at start of war) 48,160 (at war's end) [1]
•Provincial Regulars: 10,000
•Militia: 4,000
•Royal Navy & Royal Marines:
•Ships of the Line: 11
•Frigates: 34
•Other vessels: 52
•Provincial Marine: unknown
•Indigenous people: 3,500
(Also lets take a closer look in to all those Americans "killed"by the British)
Casualties and losses
2,260 KIA
4,405 Wounded
4,535 Killed from Disease
500 Civillans Dead
Total-11,700[2] [3] 1,600 KIA
3,679 Wounded
3,321 Killed by disease or weather
Total-8,600[4]

(WOW-This sounds ALOT like what you claim about the US,Already in one war and going to another and losing,is that why you claim we cant win in Iran,jealousy?)
The British could not celebrate a great victory in Europe fully until there was peace in North America, and more pertinently, taxes could not come down until there was peace in North America. Landowners particularly baulked at continued high taxation; both they and the shipping interest urged the government to secure peace.[47]

(Yea those mighty Brits,we couldnt stop them

The Battle of New Orleans
Unaware of the peace, Jackson's forces moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, in late 1814 to defend against a large-scale British invasion. Jackson defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, with over 2,000 British casualties and fewer than 100 American losses. It was hailed as a great victory, making Andrew Jackson a national hero, eventually propelling him to the presidency.[52][53]

Originally posted by jkrog08
This page seems to think that the U.S. will lose a war with Iran.
Iran most powerful nation

Well all I have to say is THERE IS NO WAY THAT THE U.S. WOULD LOSE A WAR WITH IRAN.

Further more some claim we are "tyrannical"-----------NO.We are utilizing our international police power to uphold civility in the world.

Finally....we would DESTROY IRAN in HOURS if we wanted to-----------WITHOUT TACTICAL NUKES.