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[i] [b]Estados Unidos Mexicanos [/b][/i]

I find the Unions rhetoric tiresome as it thinks that Mexico would join in and try to pilfer our lost territories in the wake of an open rebellion. I dear say that our nation has more honor then to try and annex parts of a nation that are in rebellion. Although it wasn't that long ago that the then United States of America annexed the territory of Texas that was in a state of open rebellion. "The harbinger of democracy" then went on to try and force our nation to sell Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico. When we refused the United States then went on to use the border dispute and brief skirmish near the Nuecas Strip as a convenient way to declare war on a fledgling nation. The rest is history and we where force to cede nearly half of our country for a mere 15 million dollars. This pittance would set our great nation back even more and set the seeds for our own civil war. Our nation in turn now owed a debt to Great Britain and France that seemed insurmountable to fully repay without further stalling the already barren Mexican economy. To our surprise the nations of Great Britain and France were sympathetic and offered Mexico an olive branch. This is more then I could say for the Union who preaches against the very same imperialism they inflicted upon us 13 years ago that robbed our proud nation of some of the wealthiest lands from Mexico had to offer. I have no sympathy for the Union as they made their bed and now will have to lay in it.

[b] [i]Jose Maria Iglesia Secretary of Justice[/i] [/b] [/center]