France meets USMC

an email | 12/03/02

[eldoradude]

Ignore the fool, he's a dumbocRAT.

[null and void]

I guess they needed a girl to show them how to fight...

[null and void]

And their cars suck, too.

Big time!

[MissAmericanPie]

Of course he said this to a woman, the whimp wouldn't dare say it to a man.

[null and void]

Do someone a favour and what do you get in return. Whine, whine, whine.

Ahh, but eet is FRENCH whine, no?

[driftless]

that's MISTER dolt to you judge.

[paul51]

Could have slapped him around a bit but other than that, well done.

[jla]

St. Jeanne d'Arc is a favorite historical person of mine.
I just bought a book, Joan of Arc In Her Own Words. Befitting I think that along with it I also got Reagan's War.

American Mom...What can you tell me about that top picture? I'm not quite sure of what it's depicting, but it is striking.

[arm958]

And their cars suck, too

No they don't. The ones they used to sell in the U.S. were crap, but the cars currently produced by Peugeot and Renault for European consumption are generally outstanding cars.

I'm not a Frankophile, but I have worked with French soldiers, and I shared a room with a French NCO for a few months in the Balkans. French soldiers struck me as very professional, and from what I experienced, they don't hate America. French politicians and intellectuals on the other hand.....

[BenF]

If you read further back in history, you will find that it was the French that helped us in our War of Independence

Didn't they send in their help when we were already winning?

[quietolong]

I just started reading this book
The Doughboys
America And The First World War
2000 Gary Mead

One of the things it states is:
“ Many Doughboys found Germany to be more pleasant than they expected- and to be far more welcoming than the French.”
As one Private stated who was part of AF in G “ We was fighting on the wrong side.”
One of the figure stated was the VD incidences were higher With the AF in G than the ones in France.
More said in the book about this.- More that I want to type

[lavaroise]

I'm French and I can tell you, you've just met the typical French f@got I have tried hard to avoid all these years. Sorry I was not there, I would have thrown a brick through his skull and showed him who the fck an angry Cow Boy is, and a Frenchy at that.

[lavaroise]

A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war.

First he is the one starting a fight, then says Americans provoke wars like Cow Boys, as if Cow Boys were a bunch of war starters. NO they are COW Boys, not Saddam shepherding Boys.

Typical of those loonies, who start wars with Germans, don't want to end them, cry they surrender and then accuse the USA of starting something dangerous. I wish somehow we had let the Soviets take care of the Vichy French before repelling all these goons out with atom bombs. Man, the world would be a much happier place, and, sad thing, the French don't even realize that the world is a happier place without their aggressive but cowardly Chicken as a mascot.

[KneelBeforeZod]

usually I don't like fiction. but historical fiction is OK. File this with the "you're equipped to be a prostitute" story.

[lavaroise]

I'm not a Frankophile, but I have worked with French soldiers, and I shared a room with a French NCO for a few months in the Balkans. French soldiers struck me as very professional, and from what I experienced, they don't hate America. French politicians and intellectuals on the other hand.....

With political superior officers, it is much different. They are deathly afraid their troops will admire US officers more as well as their equipment. They have this huge inferiority complex and are anti-American nationalists most of the time. French NAvy officers are even worse. I just cannot stand those bougeois self-privileging morons. They pretended taking privileges away from the Monarchy, but all they did is take the last bit of virtue in France and instituted themselves as a privileged class. They never understood nobility, and they are not the same French as Lafayette who helped the US honorably and fought honorably alongside.

So yes, I am not surprised you would be friend with an NCO, but not with a French Officer.

[AFPhys]

I've owned Renaults for almost 20 years, and found them to be very reliable and inexpensive.

As far as the French politicians and intellectuals... I have been accustomed to refer to them rather snootily as "French intelligensia". I think they killed off all those who were truly intelligent.

[KneelBeforeZod]

anyone who has been in the Marines can tell you WM's are far from the "smallest" American.

[KneelBeforeZod]

Now...what do you mean by "went up against the Germans?"

Germanny's modern day army can be unshaven and long haired. And don't also will be in for a big surprise in real battle. That honor system in war games is a joke to them. 10 guys can have them dead to rights and they keep on running. Hopefully they don't fight like they practice or they'll be the next France and Poland.

[Cachelot]

Kudz trying it on again? You know, she must be sweating blood these days what with all the Saudi dirt oozing out into daylight where it was never supposed to be.

Lol. Having a dual Saudi/American citizenship must be pretty unnerving just about now - for a spy ;).