US has successfully landed on Mars seven times.

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  1. Fullmetal Xeno

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    We are the reasons why both ended. France and England would of been doomed without our assistance in WW2.
     
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    I am guessing your knowledge of this subject is very limited.
     
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    Don't believe that for second. WWI was only 6 months from ending when the first US troops arrived on the front. Hitler's decision to attack Russia during winter was the biggest reason for the Allied victory.
     
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    Yes, but if they did not turn on each other England and France would of still been lost. Europe itself would of been.
     
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    Guessing isn't accurate. Assuming Out of disagreement is more like it. Winston Churchill was itching to get FDR on board with joining his forces because he knew they wouldn't hold out against the Germans very long. That army was bulked to the core. They basically shot themselves in the foot by invading the Soviet Union so early.
     
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    No, the Battle of Britain was over, the weather had changed and Operation Sea Lion was cancelled long before the US entered the war. Meanwhile Monty was defeating Rommel in North Africa, we were heavily bombing German cities, we held Gibralter, Malta and the Suez Canal and we were sending supplies to Russia.
     
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    See above. The US were needed to fight on the Pacific front and to enable a land invasion of Europe.
     
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    1,402 V2 rockets were launched into the United Kingdom in just a few months starting in September 1944. If the Allies didn't push like they did, it would of eventually been nothing. Britain won a few battles on their own, but they knew that they wouldn't of survived even with Soviet assistance. We were a huge help to the British and many other countries.
     
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    The V2 rockets were a last ditch terror weapon aimed indiscriminately at cities (well, London). Although this kills civilians it does not effect the war effort; as it is not targeted bombing at factories, power generation, infrastructure, airfields etc. In fact the fire bombing during the Battle of Britain was potentially far more damaging.

    Seriously, this post is only indicating you have a very limited knowledge of this subject and I cannot sit here constantly correcting unfounded remarks.

    I would edit this to add that supplies from the US were necessary.
     
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    In the US, all our school history books and John Wayne movies say we won the war single handedly with the help of an occasional French underground spy or two. We were always honorable and never tortured anyone.
    :pop:
     
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    Your equipment and numbers were needed to invade mainland Europe. Supplies of food and fuel were needed (although we were also getting supplied by the empire at the time). But Britain was no longer at risk and was defeating the Axis where the fighting continued (North Africa/ Med mainly). We had also reduced many German cities/towns to rubble (we instigated the carpet bombing and incendiary bombing).
     
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    Whoosh!

    :p
     
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    Yeah, but britain saved your ass in world war 3
     
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    US also teaches that WWII started in 1941. After living there they never did believe me it was 1939.
     
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    It's not. :) Mind, I'm not sure why IS would care about Mars. All they are interested in is very-much earth focused - I doubt even their ideology allows for that sort of thing.

    What about 1936(?) when Japan invaded China?
     
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    Exorbitant!

    Premature!
     
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    ISIS caring is not part of the equation.
     
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    you sound like my girlfriend mate, stop it
     
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    Now I'm really confused.
     
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    Yes, it was probably confusing when I said someone should point it out to them.

    The point was just a bit of Universe contemplating, comparing the dark ages to the modern world.
     
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    Yeah, I'm not sure they either do or can care about such amazing technological achievements as that. You and I might see that as sad, and it likely is. :(
     
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    Crafty self deprecation! I'm just hypocrisy-struck and not catering enough craftsmanship for a comeback.
     
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    It's sad they are killing people so needlessly. Sad is not how I would describe their ignorance of the modern world.
     
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    I think both are sad. Imagine the contributions to civilized life all those people might be able to make, but instead they are spending their lives killing for one of man's many gods, and hating people they've never really met outside of the battlefield.
     
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    That was at the time, the most recent of Japanese, Chinese wars. They had a history of conflict.
     
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