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To: PierreEsbaillart
Hey, Pierre,

Bite my arrogant American ass. France is a third-world, has-been country that has NEVER willingly cooperated with the U.S. in any military conflict. Arrogance? Thy name is France. Stupidity? They name is Chirac. Idiot? Thy name is Pierre.

Where the hell do you get off trying to lecture any goddamn American? Go to Normandy and hit your knees, a$$hole. You're only free to spread your filth because Americans gave their lives to save sorry and ungrateful French asses.

And a$$holes like you do your country no good. All you do is give evidence to those who might doubt French cowardice. For that...I thank you.

108 posted on 01/28/2003 7:56:30 PM PST by geedee
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To: geedee
Before we get too jingoistic here, let me correct your history a little bit ...

"France is a third-world, has-been country that has NEVER willingly cooperated with the U.S. in any military conflict."

Back in March-May, 1954, during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, a superior French force under General Navarre got itself surrounded and cut off by the Vietminh army led by Comrade Giap.

As the French became increasingly desperate, they begged the Americans to intervene with B-26 bombers, F8F fighters, C-47 transports, and most importantly, 75-100 B-29 bombers. This plan, code named "Operation Vulture," would have included massive conventional raids on Vietminh forces in the highlands surrounding Dien Bien Phu, followed by the use of three atomic bombs on the Communist forces.

John Foster Dulles and Vice President Richard Nixon were for the plan (at least the conventional portion of it). As it happened, the U.S. political leadership, including Senate Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, nixed the idea. As Lt. General Phillip Davidson wrote in his book "Vietnam at War," "Looking back through the mists which still shroud some aspects of Vulture, one is impressed at the clarity of vision of Nixon, Dulles, (Admr.) Radford, and (Gen.) Ridgeway. For a moment in history, these men glimpsed something of the future ... dimly perhaps, that American intervention in Indochina was inevitable."

Like Indochina in the 1950's, American intervention in the Middle East in inevitable. In hindsight, we should have willingly cooperated with the French at Dien Bien Phu. Likewise the French should cooperate with us now. But they won't, because they are cheese-eating surrender monkies, so we should smack their sorry asses back to Europe where the belong.

164 posted on 01/28/2003 11:57:24 PM PST by capitan_refugio
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