French smear Brit dead

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | 04/02/03 | SIMON HUGHES

[Pokey78]

Sickening ... swastika and vile slogans on cenotaph.
One read 'Dig up your rubbish. It's fouling our soil.'

SICK French yobs daubed a swastika and vile anti-war slurs at a cemetery for 11,000 British troops.

The showpiece cenotaph at the graveyard in Northern France was smeared in red paint with the words: “Dig up your rubbish. It’s fouling our soil.”

Other slogans at the Etaples cemetery near Boulogne included “Death to the Yankees” and “Saddam Hussein will win and spill your blood.”

And the vandals wrote “Rosbeefs go home” — the French insult for Brits is roast-beefs. Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush were also branded war criminals.

The graffiti was discovered by a shocked gardener and spotted by around 80 visitors. It was cleaned off the same day.

Roy Hemmington — spokesman for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission — said: “We are deeply offended. This is the strongest language and most vile graffiti I have witnessed at a war graves cemetery.

“The suggestion that the bodies of soldiers who died for France should be dug up is particularly foul.”

Most soldiers buried at the cemetery were defending France at the Somme and Ypres during World War I.

Another 122 are troops who died fighting the Nazis in World War II.

Among the dead are a winner of the Victoria Cross, 217 holders of the Military Medal and 69 holders of the Military Cross.

A number had been awarded France’s top military decoration, the Legion d’Honneur.

Roy added: “Almost every British regiment has war dead here. This insults just about the entire British Army.”

Anti-British feeling has been whipped up in France since President Jacques Chirac refused to let the UN back action against Iraq.

Last night Jim Kelleher, chief clerk to the Royal Fusiliers Association, said: “No sane person would do this. It is a disgrace. I have family buried in France and if I could get my hands on whoever did this I’d bury them too.”

Jeremy Lillies, of the Royal British Legion, added: “It is distressing.”

The Sun’s Military Adviser Major-General Perkins said: “It is despicable.”

Appalled local MP Jacques Lang said: “It is an attack on the memory of the British and American soldiers who contributed to the liberation of our soil.”

Police captain Thibault Martin added: “It is sick and cowardly.”

The shocking news comes as a new poll reveals that a third of the French want SADDAM to win the war.

A massive 78 per cent of 1,000 people in the poll by French newspaper Le Monde disapproved of the Allied action.

But 16 per cent “really wish for” a Coalition victory — while 37 per cent said they would prefer one.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I'd say that maybe we should have left France for the Nazis, but it looks like they are already in charge there.

[Uncle George]

If I was England, I would plug the CHUNNEL permanantly.

[jigsaw]

The French have become humanity's sewage.

[smokeyjon]

Let them so much as throw a dirty look at a single American grave in Normandy. They'll see a sh*tstorm the likes of which they cannot possibly fathom.

[Green Knight]

French bastard ping.

[kimmie7]

agreed

[Eaker]

[tomahawk]

Frogs: Go to Hell.

You deserve to live under the German boot.

Ingrates, scum, human excrement.

[green team 1999]

bomb france ,the new axis of evil

[Ceebass]

This was the work of sickos. I'd be interested in hearing the reaction of the French man-in-the-street to it.

[July 4th]

Iraq, Iran, North Korea, then France.

[Hanging Chad]

This is absolutely sickening.
If there is a fund for returning the remains of these brave warriors to British soil, I should like to contribute.
If there is not, perhaps we could start one.

[Nucluside]

If you insult British war dead you insult our war dead.
We ought to take our men home for proper burial and demand, at gunpoint, all of the aid money we've ever given the French to pay for it.

[cherry]

I'm glad the UK papers printed this story....I want all those in Britan who do not support Blair to know exactly what evil forces are out there...

about Blair....did any of us support him or even like him during the clintoon years....I actually thought he was just a prissy little twit doing clintoon's bidding...

and now look.....when he speaks he makes me cry I am so proud of him.....lol

[petuniasevan]

Mark Twain wasn't a fan of the French.

He wasn't referring to them in the following quote, but it certainly applies to these vandals.

"He has every characteristic of a dog except loyalty."

[RoseofTexas]

FUDGING BASTARDS!!! GO TO HELL TOADS!! Touch any of our soldiers graves and there will be HELL to pay!!!

[Madcelt]

I bleieve its "past" time for us to repatriate our honored and brave dead. Lets bring our countrymen home and leave the "cesspool" a.k.a. "France".

[patriciaruth]

“The suggestion that the bodies of soldiers who died for France should be dug up is particularly foul.”

I've been thinking that the most honorable thing might be to bring our heroes home to lie in American soil.

[sharkhawk]

They are OUR war dead. What is the difference between US and UK warriors from WWI and II?