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22 comments to "The World’s Shortest and Longest Wars."
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creatine
February 21st, 2007 at
9:51 am
That’s not the longest war.
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Nimbokwezer
February 21st, 2007 at
9:52 am
This is almost a sentence by sentence rewording of the wikipedia article.
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Nimbokwezer
February 21st, 2007 at
9:55 am
Seriously… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War
The sentences are in the exact same order, just slightly reworded.
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Obbop
February 21st, 2007 at
10:06 am
Give us time. The war between freedom-loving people and the elite-class-owned USA federal government is a little over 200 years old but we, the people, will hopefully win some day; despite the concentrated wealth and power of the elite class, BIG corporations and the special interest groups in collusion with the enemies of freedom.
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Billy
February 21st, 2007 at
10:08 am
Wow, next time just post a link to Wikipedia.
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Chuck
February 21st, 2007 at
10:27 am
How about the dumbest war? Did you know that Honduras and El Salvador went to war after a World Cup Soccer Game? Its true! In 1969 playoff there was a penalty kick on an iffy call that led to victory…and then riots in the streets…there were already tensions but this was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back.
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Alex
February 21st, 2007 at
10:52 am
Nimbokwezer, wikipedia was a source and credited as such above. Both articles depicted the event in chronological order therefore the similarities.
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redstripe
February 21st, 2007 at
10:58 am
The world’s longest war, on the other hand, spanned 355 years without a single shot fired.
Should be 335?
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Alex
February 21st, 2007 at
11:03 am
Oops, thanks redstripe - I’ve corrected it.
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Donaldo
February 21st, 2007 at
11:35 am
In 1982, the government of Key West seceeded from the United States. The Conch War ended 1 minute later when they surrendered and demanded $1 billion in foreign aid.
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Duane
February 21st, 2007 at
11:39 am
Hi all, I am from Canada eh.
Ever since we kicked the Americans hoops and burnt down their place of government in the War of 1812, EVERYBODY has loved Canada.
Nobody wants to decalre war with us because we have strong beer, good weed from the west coast and hot strippers.
Plus, between the sharp teeth of the Great Canadian Beaver, the massive antlers of the Great Canadian Moose, and our excellence in the use of the Great Canadian Hockey Stick, nobody wants to even try to take us on.
Which we prefer, because we are a peaceful country, except when we get the helmets on our head and the hockey sticks in our hands. then we can get a little loopy.
Besides, igloos are impervious to conventional weapons.
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Murr
February 21st, 2007 at
12:43 pm
Duane:
Don’t be a dumbass.
You’re embracing a terrible stereotype of our people.
Besides: the British invaded Washington from Bermuda with veteran troops of the Napoleonic War. Canadians were not involved with that.
Idiot.
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CLM3inVA
February 21st, 2007 at
2:49 pm
duane,
you’re a jackass. everyone hates canada. the beer sucks, you dont know whose speaking french and whose speaking english, you say things like “eh”, and your chief export is stupid people like keanu reeves and jim carrey. also, i believe canada also gave us barenaked ladies. i think thats a big fat “nuff said”. canada sucks…along with it’s citizens. stupid canucks.
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Verbobus
February 21st, 2007 at
2:50 pm
The conflict between Rome and Veii could be considered longer.
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bh_jodokast
February 21st, 2007 at
3:25 pm
Just because someone says ‘I’m at war with you’ that doesn’t mean an actual war took place if no shots are fired.
This is to distract from the fact that the war in Iraq and Afghanistan are eclipsing all other wars in terms of ‘time wasted, while engaged’.
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Robert G. Ferrell
February 21st, 2007 at
4:35 pm
“…the Parliamentarians beat the Royalists further and further away from London, until [it was] forced to retreat…”
I think you meant [they were], unless you were trying to say that London itself retreated to Scilly, in which case I think this incident might have gotten a little more coverage in the history books than is traditionally accorded it.
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yayo
February 21st, 2007 at
6:28 pm
Hi all. The Cristian Kingdoms Reconquering of the Iberic Peninsula took from 711 when muslims invaded it, up to 1492 when the Kingdom of Granada fell in catholic hands again. Maybe there wasn’t an open war in the begining because the kings and nobles just give up covardly ^^. So it’s said that the Reconquering started in 718 that gives about 770 years of open war operations and some parentheses of repoblation of the reconquered territories.
^g^
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Oren
February 23rd, 2007 at
11:18 am
Calling the Anglo-Zanzibar skirmish a war, is pointless. if you want to talk about a REAL short war, i don’t think there ever was anything resembling the israel-arab war of 1967, aka the six days war.
in just 6 days, israel has managed to triple it’s size, and have killed 21000 enemy soldiers (while incurring only 779 casualties). also, israel stood alone against the combined armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan (who were also aided by iraq, sudan, algeria and more).now that’s warfare!
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onur
September 10th, 2007 at
7:13 am
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bored
November 10th, 2007 at
7:12 pm
duane, quite obvilously isn’t from canada, idiots
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Canada
March 31st, 2008 at
1:16 pm
canada rocks enough said bitch
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anything
April 2nd, 2008 at
8:13 am
CANDA RULES MOFUCKA ALL THE WAY BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!
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