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Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla., introduced a bill today to allow families to bring home the remains of fallen World War II soldiers buried in the "Axis of Weasel" nations of France and Belgium. She has two co-sponsors, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, and Rep. Tim Johnson, R-Ill., for her bill, intended as a rebuke to the weasels' obsessive support for genocidal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Families of 81,172 servicemen interred in 14 cemeteries operated by the U.S. military would be affected. She came up with the idea after talking to Ken Graham of Dade City, Fla., whose father is buried...

AMERICAN hostility to France reached new heights yesterday when the remains of US servicemen buried in Normandy were dragged into the heat of battle over Iraq. A Florida congresswoman introduced a Bill on Capitol Hill that would allow the families of Second World War dead to dig up their bones and take them home. Ginny Brown-Waite said that her American Heroes Repatriation Act 2003 was a response to constituents’ concerns that their fathers and grandfathers were lying in “unpatriotic soil”. She said: “The French don’t seem to remember that if it wasn’t for America, they would be speaking German.” Her...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In another swipe at the French, a Florida congresswoman has proposed that the government pay for families who might want to bring home from France the remains of Americans who fought and died in the world wars. ``I, along with many other Americans, do not feel that the French government appreciates the sacrifices men and women in uniform have made to defend the freedom that the French enjoy today,'' Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite said in introducing legislation providing financial help for the reburial of veterans from the two world wars. The legislation, which faces uncertain prospects, is the...

<p>WASHINGTON - (KRT) - First it was French fries and French toast. Now the bones of U.S. servicemen are being dragged into the conflict between France and the United States over war in Iraq.</p> <p>Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla., plans to introduce a bill Thursday proposing that the families of the thousands of soldiers, sailors and airmen buried in France and Belgium be allowed to dig up their remains and have them shipped home.</p>