Tea baguette schools us on our young country's first enemy...the Muslim Pirates of North Africa!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Run time: 05:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwggPN2bNoY   Posted on YouTube: August 24, 2010 By YouTube Member: PocketPolitics Views on YouTube: 10   Posted on DU: August 26, 2010 By DU Member: Amerigo Vespucci Views on DU: 662

 

[tabatha]

1. She said "North Africa".

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Oooooops, all fixed.

I must have gotten caught up in the heat of all that educational material flying by me.

:rofl:

:toast:

[handmade34]

2. everyone should know our

history and how closely we have always been tied with the Middle East... no excuse for the absurd protests now

[Crowman1979]

4. Hey Teadummy! Who were allies with us in fighting the Barbary pirates?

Muslim mercenaries you dumbass!

[Grassy Knoll]

5. I really think these assholes are......

begging for another 911, They want Obama to look as bad as Bush.
I guess the knifing of a cabbie wasn't good enough.

[htuttle]

6. I don't suppose she mentioned Article 11 of the ensuing Treaty of Tripoli, did she?

"Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."

I don't have the heart to listen to it to find out, but right wingers always skip that when they bring up the Barbary War.

[theoldman]

7. First you have to read a few history books.

Most Muslims were grateful that the Americans freed them from the tyrants who controlled them 200 years ago. It was only in the past 60 years that we pissed every Muslim off by siding with the leaders and not the common people.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. The party of hate..Tea Baggers..

Hating 24-7.

[baldguy]

9. So, our first foreign war was defending ourselves against competition from extremist capitalists?