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"HeyBub" wrote:

Our mistake was not annexing the island - as we did Puerto Rico and Guam,
after 1898. We just "administered" the island until about 1902 when we
granted Cubans their independence.

Or as Sen SI Hyakawa stated so succinctly during the Panama Canal
Debate: "Of course its ours, we stole it fair and square."

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I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator
and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker, paleontologist