Remember The Maine

[TheDarkSideWTMY1280]

Viva Cuba Española Americans come to wars when other countries are allready winning the war! plus USA Blow there own Ship!

[vv55sst]

That "Documentary" was a rigged and pre-judged show. They came to the conclusion as to how they wanted it to come out BEFORE the show as even filmed and did not include a vast amount of contradictory evidence. There are arguments both ways, but it is inaccurate to say the matter is settled as a scientific fact.

[FalconKPD]

The ship exploded due to a coal fire, a common thing of the time. The US thought it was a Spanish mine (Which would make sense based on the tensions between the US and Spain) . At the time, they thought that's what happened and war broke out. Get over it, conspiracy theorists.

[pjboom]

Spain gave weapons, money and kept the british stucked in the south so you could gain your independence, then you backsatbbed us.

[dadecountyhustler305]

None of your dumbasses has any proof, but just speculation. Spain would keep mines in the harbor to protect from foreign ships... As did many European nations did back then...

[Batamon1997]

We should not have won that war. Spain had bettter weapons than us, like the machine gun.

[DJBuckCallYo]

@Batamon1997 no actually Spain was in economic turmoil, they were poor, really poor, they did have a lot of colonies, but the major reason why Spain became poor was because Spain did not allow its colonies to trade with any foreign nations....

[Twirly60]

Oh a 911 in 1898,just to start a war?

[DJBuckCallYo]

@Twirly60 lol, some say that the cause is still for debate, but I think it was an internal accident, one of the crew members made an accident.... Spain was wrongly accused, but that might also be a cover up, idk there is just a lack of evidence :D The Cuban rebels could have placed an explosive device on the Maine so that the US would intervene and fight off the Spanish. All i know for sure was that Spain had nothing to gain from a war, the Cubans would have gained their independence....

[thetitanicisdead]

in portland maine their is a canon from the battle ship

[24chancer]

RREEMEBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stevenyou]

omg hehe the maine blew up due to an on board malfunction. spain was wrongfully accused of destroying the ship so that the us could acquire cuba and the philipines while we'er at it...

[TheIncredibleSpazz]

yeah, thats what i thought.

[cdfe3388]

Actually, forensic evidence from the wreck coupled with witnesses' accounts indicates that the Maine was sunk by Cuban rebels. The US openly supported Cuban independence for numerous reasons, some noble, others nefarious. The "Insurectos" knew that their best chance was to provoke a war between the United States and the Spanish Empire, so they sunk a US warship knowing that the Spaniards would be blamed and let William Randolph Hearst do the rest ("Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain!").

[ejdiii333]

@cdfe3388 , they had the best motive, but the type of mines back then could not have done 1/10th of the damage, the repels only had gun cotton and black powder. besides the 1911 investigation and that of admiral rickover in the 1960s, shows photo evidence that the plates blew out, not in,. a mine sexplosion would expend about 755 of the blast in other directions, they had not deveoped mines beyond the primate state, until the middle of WWI. consensus is bunker fire, common some what.

[TheWhiteStallion333]

@ejdiii333

lol "sexplosion" nice typo

[ejdiii333]

@TheWhiteStallion333 : Well, like I mentioned, it was an investigation by Admiral Rickover in the the 1960s.....stress the 1960s...free love, the sexual revolution.... so yeah, in 1960s lingo it could be a "sexplosion!" ....haha...tahnks for the reply.

[DJBuckCallYo]

@cdfe3388 OMG you are so true man, that was what I was thinking, the Rebels must have done it! They had a lot to gain from it!

[vv55sst]

@stevenyou - That is the current popular theory. And Its quite possible. The offical investigation (done after the war) blamed a mine (external cause). However, having looked at the evidence on both sides, I can't reach a definitive conclusion. I think an internal explosion is the more likely of the possible casues, but until there's a time machine to go back and look, they are both just theories.

[vivaespanha]

@vv55sst Pics of the remains were taken, experts (including US Navy) analised the pics recently, even replicated parts of the ship to have ´em tested, and the results are in a 2002 History Channel documentary. It was an inside explosion. Probably accident due to negligent maintenance. (Or a typical C.I.A.-alike job... that we will never know). No doubt it was not any act of war from Spain. The US should recognize it officially, and apologize to Spain, a friend country.

[Sirkilla120]

.., fucking idiot the maine was sunk by the us so we could get into the fight sound familar?

[TheIncredibleSpazz]

this was done FOR SCHOOL. you have to use the info that THE SCHOOL approves.

[SelenaAndAliza]

i would say youre the "fucking idiot"

[loveindigo09]

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