Another fine post swiped from one of my MSN groups!
After Sponsoring a Ceasefire in Lebanon France Has Volunteered ... 200 troops! Here are some valid comments on that Brave Nation
"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes."--Mark Twain------------------------------
"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me."--General George S. Patton------------------------------
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." --General Norman Schwartzkopf------------------------------
"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it."--Marge Simpson------------------------------
"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure."--Jacques Chirac, President of France"As far as France is concerned, you're right."--Rush Limbaugh------------------------------
"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee."--Regis Philbin------------------------------
"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it." --John McCain , U.S. Senator from Arizona------------------------------
"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag."--David Letterman ------------------------------
"Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada."--Ted Nugent------------------------------
"War without France would be like ... World War II." --Unknown------------------------------
"The favorite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France.'"--Tom Brokaw------------------------------
"What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?"--Dennis Miller------------------------------
"It is important to remember that the French have always been there when they needed us."--Alan Kent-----------------------------
"They've taken their own precautions against al-Qa'ida. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house." --Argus Hamilton------------------------------
"Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day --the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.'" --Rep. Roy Blunt, MO-----------------------------
"The French will only agree to go to war when we've proven we've found truffles in Iraq "--Dennis Miller------------------------------ Q. What did the mayor of Paris say to the German Army as they entered the city in WWII?A. Table for 100,000 m'sieur?-----------------------------
"Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris? It's not known, it's never been tried."--Rep. R. Blount, MO------------------------------
"Do you know it only took Germany three days to conquer France in WWII? And that's because it was raining." --John Xereas, Manager, DC Improv------------------------------
The AP and UPI reported that the French Government announced after the London bombings that it has raised its terror alert level from Run to Hide. The only two higher levels in France are Surrender and Collaborate. The rise in the alert level was precipitated by a recent fire which destroyed France 's white flag factory, effectively disabling their military.------------------------------
French Ban Fireworks at Euro Disney(AP), Paris, August 23, 2006The French Government announced today that it is imposing a ban on the use of fireworks at Euro Disney. The decision comes the day after a nightly fireworks display at the park, located just 30 miles outside of Paris, caused the soldiers at a nearby French Army garrison to surrender to a group of Czech tourists.
15 comments:
so you're not a big fan of the French then?
OUCH!
Murray, we are grateful.
But what the hell happened after that?
Alors, nous avons vous aide cette fois, nous sommes fini pour l'eterneite.
You done, Murray? You must be bored. And I sure hit a fucking nerve, didn't I? BTW, thanks for sitting on the beaches at Normandy drinking tea while we got our asses shot off a couple beachheads down. I could go on, like you, but, unlike you, I have better things to do.
Murray, give the war-history America bashing thing a rest, eh?
ALL countries had both incompetent and competent generals. All countries had both cowards and heroes.
To listen to you sometimes, only Kiwis were blameless, perfectly led and invariably heroic.
Get fucking real.
yaaaawn......you don't suppose the French do the same to the Americans?
It's allied troops who form the near-endless rows of graves at Normandy and other places in France, not French.
It's America (among others) who liberated France twice, not Frenchmen.
"They've certainly put the boot into us for not jumping in with them in the WOT from the get go .."
I don't recall them putting the boot into NZ when some muslims were found in the PM's electorate (Mt. Albert) with plans of the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor and street plans of Sydney in their possession--and the NZ police decided that there was no terrorist connection, nossir, nothing to see here..this just before the Sydney Olympics.
And they didn't put the boot in when Helen cosied up to the mullahs in Tehran.
Or Phil Goff held hands with Arafat.
Or hundreds of NZ fake passports were found in Thailand......
glasshouses. stones etc.
Gotta go with Murray.
Love America.
Love the bulk of people there, friendly and polite.
Shame shes led by incompetents.
Where has she triumphed in recent times, for all her power and might?
She got fought to a standstill in Korea. Thrown out of Vietnam, sent packing from Somalia, practically abandoned the fight in Afghanistan, is getting a snotting in Iraq, has alienated half of South America, plus many other countries round the world.
Pretty poor record actually.................
So the US gets blamed for not fighting and for fighting in the same comments thread.
You can't get around the fact that the US was required to bring a successful outcome to both WWI and WWII.
I'll leave you with the floor Murray.
Really, I just havn't sufficient interest to type that much in rebuttal
Wow, you sure set off a MERDE storm with this post, Oswald!!!!
Mais bien sur, Brian, and toutes de ces accusations de l'anti-Semitisme sont en erreur. Si tu ne me crois pas, il faut simplement demande a Emile Zola.
Uh oh, here comes Murray again!
I once had a French girlfriend (a Morticia Addams clone)
Gal could suck a golfball through a garden hose!
We parted company amicably unlike most of her contemporaries.
SO they ain't all bad!(especially those involved in viticulture, cheesemaking and making Calvadoes!)
BTW, France got well & truely paid back in 1917!
Man, I always wanted to bang Morticia Addams! Lucky bastard!
To be fair.
The French held the line in Vietnam from 1946 to 1953. And did it on a shoestring as a financially bankrupt nation. Read Bernard Fall, Jules Roy and Martin Windrow. If you have any practical knowledge of soldiering and have heard shots fired in anger, these authors will bring tears to your eyes.
And no sooner was Vietnam now Eisenhower's problem then the French were up to their necks in the Algerian War. At all times the French forces did their very best - despite their yellow-bellied politicians and being stabbed in the back by the own country's marxist communists.
The French combat soldier who served in WW2, then Vietnam and then Algeria was not a pussy.
Lest we forget.
If I am not mistaken, the French were not fighting in Indochina.
How so?
The French Legion Etyrangere was the main figting force in Indochina, if memeory serves.
Oh, yeah, minor detail: French citizens are prohibited from serving inthe Legion Etrangere. It was begun as a means of deploying troopps to hotspots without endangering the lives of French soldiers.
French Army regular units most definitely served in Vietnam.
Conscript ones did not.
But they did in Algeria.
Air Force and Naval units likewise.
The Foreign Legion was a notable unit in that theatre, but small in size relative to the total numbers engaged.
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