[0x457]

> and what does Spain's (or France's) empire have to do with anything? If I burgle the house of a burglar, it doesn't make me not a burglar.

To be clear it's not that you're in a burglar's house, it's that you're robbing the same place.

[steveoscaro]

Yes thanks, that was my point, that it's not like the Mexican government had a clear moral argument to that land over the US. Both were break-away colonies expanding over native cultures.