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[Fiddlinshim at cs.com]

jhminshall at comcast.net writes:

> >It was very similar to the situation of the Spanish Conquistadors 
> >bringing smallpox and other illnesses to the Native Americans.

How odd that you should, by implication, absolve the Northern-European 
conquerors of bringing disease with them. It was the good Protestant Christians who 
distributed blankets infested with smallpox virus in order to kill the 
'savages'.

Joel Shimberg
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