by Rolf Lindgren
John McCain has gone on the record, supporting 100 years of war in the Middle East:
We have already had one Hundred Years' War, which is one too many for the people of the Occident. Now McCain wants another one.
The Hundred Years' War is unique in history, in that everybody was a loser in that war. It is the only war in history where every single person alive at the beginning of the war (1337), was dead by the end of the war (1453).
The Hundred Years' War, like many other government wars, lasted longer than expected. It actually lasted 116 years, about the length of years that the oldest human beings in human history have lived.
This war was so gruesome, that they even continued fighting right on through the Black Death of 1347-1351, a plague which killed more people in Europe than WWII.
This war also produced such atrocities as the burning at the stake in 1431 of a young 19-year old religious girl named Joan of Arc.
It also produced the brutal atrocities of the infamous Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
Below, is a list of major battles fought in the Hundred Years' War. Why Senator McCain would want another one defies imagination:
1380 Castilian fleet sacks and burns English port towns.
1417 Naval victory in the River
Seine under Bedford
1426 March 6 French besieging army under Richemont dispersed by a small force under Sir Thomas Rempstone in "The Rout of St James" in Brittany
1431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake
1439 Following a surprise attack, John Talbot disperses a French army of 6000 under the Constable Richemont at Avranches in Normandy.
1440 John Talbot takes Harfleur
Ron Paul opposes 100 years of war in the Middle East, and had he been alive in 1337, he would have opposed the Hundred Years' War as well.
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