From: Jay Willingham (jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 14:54:28 EDT
The precise story, courtesy of Joel Peter Anderson <joela@umn.edu>:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/powell.asp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
To: "Jay Willingham" <jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com>; <jcannon@washjeff.edu>;
"ASA" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Do non-U.S. Christians say "God Bless America?" (fwd)
>
> > The Archbishop of Canterbury was showing a cathedral to Colon Powell.
The
> > cleric asked him why America seemed to want to take over the world.
> Powell
> > replied that America's by the ten's of thousands had died in foreign
lands
> > to keep them free, yet all the land America had ever asked in return was
> > just enough to bury them in. The Archbishop went silent.
>
> Can you give me full documentary evidence for that please, so that I can
> take it up with my archbishop? I would like date, time, place and who
> reproted it.
>
> thank you
>
> michael
>
> >
>
>
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