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To: jaydubya2

It couldn’t possibly be an accident... somebody has to be blamed. It has to be someone else fault.

Sarcasm now off

All accidents have root causes and they are usually several with enough blame to go around.


8 posted on 12/06/2010 5:36:18 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: Sequoyah101
"Officials with the French Bureau Enquetes-Accidents (BEA), the Bureau of Accident Investigations, have amassed an exhaustive history of tire problems on the Concorde fleet dating back to 1976. A total of 57 cases of burst/deflated tires were identified. Including the crash last July, BEA experts conclude that the record of one occurrence per 1,500 flight cycles for Concorde is markedly higher than the one event per 100,000 cycles for the A340."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UBT/is_3_15/ai_69259216/
9 posted on 12/06/2010 5:49:28 AM PST by jaydubya2
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To: Sequoyah101

Yes the French helped us durring the Revolutionary war as Britan was also their enemy. Please read some of the facts about the French below.

At a time when our president and other politicians tend to apologize for our country’s prior actions, here’s a refresher on how some of our former patriots handled negative comments about our country.

JFK’S
Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60’s when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible.

Rusk responded,

“Does that include those who are buried here?”

DeGaulle
did not respond.

You
could have heard a pin drop.

When in England ,

at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the
Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of ‘empire building’ by George Bush.

He answered by saying,

“Over the years, the United States has sent many of
its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.”

You
could have heard a pin drop.

~~~~~~~~
There was a conference in France

where a number of international engineers
were taking part, including French and American. During a break,one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, “Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?”

A Boeing engineer

stood up and replied quietly: “Our carriers have three
hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand
gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships;

how many does France have?”

You
could have heard a pin drop.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A U.S. Navy Admiral

was attending a naval conference that included
Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a
French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, “Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?”

Without hesitating,

the American Admiral replied, “Maybe it’s because the
Brit’s, Canadians, Aussie’s and Americans arranged it so you wouldn’t have to speak German.”

You
could have heard a pin drop.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

AND
THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...

Robert Whiting,

an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane.
At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on.”You have been to France before, monsieur?” the customs officer asked sarcastically.

Mr. Whiting

admitted that he had been to France previously.

“Then
you should know enough to have your passport ready.”

The American said,

“The last time I was here, I didn’t have to show it.”

“Impossible..
Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France !”

The American senior

gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he
quietly explained, ‘’Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn’t find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to.”

You
could have heard a pin drop.

This was posted to Fox News this morning.


11 posted on 12/06/2010 5:56:11 AM PST by NeverForgetBataan (To the German Commander: ..........................NUTS !)
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