728th squadron, 452nd Heavy Bombardment Group - Deopham Green 
He went to fight with you in 1944 and its only because of Brits like you that others like him would do so again.
Posted on 01/01/2008 8:59:01 PM PST by george76
Not to be outdone by President Sarkozy's amorous overture to President Bush in Washington, Prime Minister Brown of Britain has used the first major foreign policy speech of his premiership to insist that Britain is America's closest ally.
Mr. Sarkozy claimed during his visit to Washington last week that France, not Britain, is now America's best friend and partner.
"It is no secret that I am a lifelong admirer of America," Mr. Brown said. And, in a thinly veiled reference to France's traditional dislike of America and its culture, he added, "I have no truck with anti-Americanism in Britain or elsewhere in Europe, and I believe that our ties with America — founded on values we share — constitute our most important bilateral relationship."
He welcomed France's late conversion to the American cause and a similar newfound affection for America expressed by Chancellor Merkel of Germany in her visit to Mr. Bush's ranch ...
"It is good for Britain, Europe and the wider world that today France and Germany and the E.U. are building stronger relationships with America," Mr. Brown said. But he emphasized that it is with America, not Europe, that Britain maintains its "most important" relationship.
Mr. Brown's comments will come as a slap to a former U.N. official, Mark Malloch-Brown, now a British foreign minister, who declared shortly after his appointment that since Mr. Brown's arrival in Downing Street, America and Britain were no longer "joined at the hip."
The maverick Lord Malloch-Brown, who has angered many members of the Bush administration with anti-American statements, was instantly reprimanded by the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, and has since found himself obliged to apologize for suggesting that Britain should start negotiating with the Islamist terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
One good thing about this : is that the old media and the DUmmies will be very upset.
“The normal folks in Normandy, etc, were much happier that we
did save them.”
A friend that spent a summer criss-crossing France after college
(late 1980s) said that in rural areas, once he made accquaintance
with French folks...they wouldn’t let him buy his own meal.
Being American seemed to buy him a hero’s welcome.
His fluency in French probably helped a bit.
Seriously, I hold that the main reason that these events have come to pass is President Bush’s steadfast resolve in charting and staying a constant course in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Our resolve to stay the course and take real and prolonged causalities, along with a rather stoic endurance of bitter long term criticism from both the World body and the MSM, has produced real and positive results that only a left wing member of the liberal trash in America could fail to see.
The farmers in rural France under the Germans knew that their only hope was America. They followed our progress very carefully.
728th squadron, 452nd Heavy Bombardment Group - Deopham Green
He went to fight with you in 1944 and its only because of Brits like you that others like him would do so again.
BuHuHaHa!
Sarko has problems... After all I can say that we Germans might not be America’s best friend and partner (everyone knows that the Brits are the closest ally of the US - we Germans lost the WWII and therefore accepted our cold-war-role in the west), but we are in sharp difference to France a quite predictable one.
If the French friendship with the US has the same durability as Sarko’s marriages, I would be careful. ;)
Regards from a real friend in good old Europe (Lake Constance, Germany)
Andreas
Interesting as the the flow of history moves in and out.
Sometimes the tide is with you, sometimes against you. We never know which crazy old uncle will show up.
Someone long ago said : the more things change, the more they stay the same ?
Lake Constance is a beautiful place.
Regards
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