Quote from: Davedave gets the feeling that US schools like to put the old patriotic freedom democracy slant on the whole event...

Wow, talk about totally dodging the actual conversation. My addition to this discussion was well reasoned and thoughtful, reminding folks of the economic burden that Britain had aquired through its imperial wars in the middle of the 1700s and its need to pay them off through burdenous taxation on its colonies. Your response, is a facile insult, not proper dialog. Talk about grasping at straws.

actually not wanting to derail the thread further - launching into a full on debate about the american war of independence in a thread about whether iran will be bombed in june or july is pretty irrelevant.