In response to "July 4 notable for two nations that are one," I remind us all of how George W. Bush misled the people and U.S. Congress into believing that the U.S. had legal justification - WMDs, ties to 9/11 attacks, etc. - to invade Iraq.More than 4,000 U.S. troops and a million innocent Iraqi civilians have been killed to date.By misleading the people and U.S. Congress, are George W. Bush and his administration responsible for these deaths?So we are not misled. The Native Hawaiians were a people and government recognized in 1842 as an independent state by the United States and the international community well before Jan. 17, 1893, an achievement made by diplomacy, not war.The Fourth of July celebration of American independence is a celebration by the victors of war against tyranny and oppression.Like the case for invading Iraq, the basis of Kenneth Conklin's so-called revolution (aka overthrow) of 1893, the Republic of Hawai`i, the Treaty Annexation (1898) and Hawai`i Statehood Act (1959) are all fraudulent....Foster AmpongKahului, MauiRead The Entire ArticleHere
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