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I am so tired of Europe, including the Brits. The other day I was reading a thread about WWII. The British poster listed every ally and their great contributions, all except one. A “stupid American” said, “Hey how about us? We were there too.” The amount abuse that rained down in this poor dumb ba$tard was not to be believed from our so-called friend. Our military was insulted and disparaged in the most despicable ways. They were berated as inept and incompetent, “all gear and no idea.” Oh, and everyone’s Grandad said, “When the Germans fired the allies ducked, when the Brits and French fired the Germans ducked. But when the Yanks fired everybody ducked.” Hahaha. I was just doubled over I was laughing so hard. Did you know that if it wasn’t for the Russians, that Britain would probably be speaking German, they just couldn’t hold on much longer and thank goodness for the Russians. It was disgraceful.

It is said over and over again that we arrived late, just in time to claim all if the glory. I have always wondered why when our “dear friends” were hanging on for dear life why did we wait? Now I realize that our fathers and grandfathers knew what they were doing. This anti-Americanism isn’t new. This has been going on a long, long time. We need to disengage ourselves from Europe, as our founding fathers warned over two hundred years ago. We must not make the same mistake a third time.

Well, having never actually been in the UK, I’ll have to take your word for it.

Apparently, it is the same sort of thing we experience with the Canadians. I don’t get it. America has always befriended our allies.

Re: your comment about the Brits attitude towards the Ruskies in WW2, I guess they would like us better if we were a totalitarian bully like the Soviets.

Creme, the British poster was an idiot,period.

And the ‘everyone ducked’ joke is an old,old one and just a silly one.Dont read too much into it.

Can I say one thing though?.

This is probably a reaction to AMERICAN attitudes to Britain in world war 2...

The British people frankly, Creme, are SICK FED UP of OUR contribution, our INCREDIBLE AND IMMENSE contribution in two world wars being ridiculed and marginalised more and more the further we recede from 1939-45...

Frankly, we have had now SIXTY YEARS of being told that America ‘bailed us out’, ‘saved our ass’, that ‘we would be speaking German if not for America’ etc etc.

It is in films...tv....print...the internet. The most successful recent Hollywood war film (Private Ryan) only mentions us in order to insult and distort our actions in Normandy...

On this site and on any, it seems that many Americans truly believe that they won two world wars singlehanded and that you bailed us out/saved us etc etc....I even increasingly read how you won the Falklands War for us...

So I am TRULY SORRY that you read ignorant comments from this side of the Atlantic about America in ww2.

BUT perhaps you may wish to reflect that there is just as much if not more arrogant,ignorant and frankly offensive rubbish talked about Britain and its role in the two world wars by far too many of your fellow countrymen and women...

This is a problem BOTH nations have.