[new cruelty]

I left out any (_____ alert)s but hightlighted my favorite bit.

[facedown]

Yeah, and nothing has changed in 200 years. </SARCASM>

[MEG33]

The French get the benefit of our doing the heavy lifting and the ability to squeeze us at the same time.A pox on them.

[Rodney King]

It's not like the French helped us out of the kindness of their hearts, but rather out of a desire to stick it to the british. Regardless, our debt was more than repaid by WW1, let alone WW2.

[veronica]

Gosh. Is there anything this fop likes better about America than he does France? Really, he should make like Gore Vidal and Johnny Depp AND MOVE TO FRANCE.

[dighton]

"When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it."

French aircraft carrier heads home

[M Kehoe]

I see Mr. Lockman conveniently left out what France has done for us in the past 200 YEARS.

Mr. Lockman is a Francophile cheese eating surrender monkey lover.

5.56mm

[SkyPilot]

I think we should approach the French the way the great Ben Franklin did while he was ambassador to France.

Talk nice to them, let them stew in some flattery and platitudes, and then make love to their pretty girls.

[abclily]

There would be no France today without the United States of America. And there may well be no France in the future if they don't stop giving in to their Muslim population. This mess ain't over yet!

[Arrowhead1952]

THE FRENCH DESERVE BETTER THAN THEY GET

trash-talking the French for congenital anti-Americanism

Can we send them the "French looking Ketchup Kerry"? He has been trash-talking Bush and the U.S. for some time.

[RJL]

THE FRENCH DESERVE BETTER THAN THEY GET

I’d love to give France “better than they get” and the sooner the better.

[niteowl77]

I am hardly historically challenged, yet I consider this piece to be swill.

Now the segue- what is it with bowties and crackpots? Is it the international neckwear of the disaffected left? This guy, Calypso Louis, any number of socialist sycophants on the tube...

Orville Redenbacher excepted, I get red flags from guys with bowties. Women with bowties, however, are another matter.

[proxy_user]

They were a strange country even then.

The admiration of 18th-century French aristocrats for homespun American patriots always stuck me as a bit unusual....but what is it? Chateaubriand? De Sade?

[CIB-173RDABN]

"We Americans tend to be historically challenged, but there is no excuse for not knowing a Franco-American alliance beat the British in the Revolutionary War.

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This debt was paid in WWI, and with interest in WWII.

What help the French provided in our Revolution was more in their interest to interfere with British interest, then to help us. That is ok, we needed help, they provided it.

The anger many American's feel for the French is not because they did not join us in the war against Iraq, it is because they activitly opposed us, siding with Saddam. Not understanding this, shows the ignorance of the author.

[LOC1]

Does the phrase "What have you done for me lately?" ring a bell?

[Helms]

France heat wave death toll could reach 12,000
Last Updated Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:03:16

PARIS - The number of people who died during France's worst heat wave on record will likely rise toward 12,000, says the country's health minister.

Jean-François Mattei has confirmed 11,435 people in France died during the first two weeks of August. Temperatures rose to more than 40 C during that period.

Government officials originally estimated as many as 3,000 people died in the heat, despite repeated claims from the operator of the country's largest funeral home that as many as 10,000 people had died.

* FROM AUG. 20, 2003: Heat related deaths in France could exceed 10,000

In an interview published Sunday in Le Journal Du Dimanche, Mattei said the number of deaths would likely rise because more elderly people whose health deteriorated during the heat wave could die.

[mtbopfuyn]

Some of us know it's 2003 while others are still living in the past.

[OldFriend]

On the contrary, the French would be speaking German if it were not for the US GIs

[bert]

.....politely inform them there would be no United States of America without France.....

Remember as well that the French nobles who fought for the cause cause of freedom in America succumed to the revolutionaries in France. The French to whom the debt is owed died in the Revolution as it exterminated the nobility and all who weren't in absolute lock step.

[cardinal4]

The next time you hear a bunch of talk show patriots trash-talking the French for congenital anti-Americanism, ingratitude and cowardice because France led the international opposition to President Bush's misadventure in Iraq, politely inform them there would be no United States of America without France.

The author convieniently omits our repayment during WWI and WWII. And lets face it, the US won the Cold War. So the Euro continent has had its bacon saved by us 3 times in the last century. Defending "Old Europe" is so Jeanne Garofalo..

[RJL]

France made the choice here, rejecting the US.

The US spent much blood and treasure saving France in World Wars I & II

It is precisely because France and the US have been allies for over 225 years that makes France’s stand against the US so infuriating.

Instead of standing with its long time and very generous ally, France chose to stand with Saddam Hussein, a brutal murderous dictator known the world over as a madman.

I hope France reaps a bumper crop of what is has sown.