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Politics : Your Thoughts Regarding France? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scrapps who wrote (264)	3/4/2003 9:53:05 PM
From: David Lawrence	Respond to of 662

Can you imagine the fear that some of our waffling allies are experiencing as they contemplate what it would be like to have a UN located in gay paireeee? Of course, we'll expect the French to provide the economic support that we have for so long. That thought alone should be enough to convince them to get with the program.

To: Scrapps who wrote (264)	3/4/2003 9:57:03 PM
From: Smooth Drive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 662

Just opened this e-mail and enjoyed. If previously posted -- Next An actual letter home from Bosnia: > > Dear Dad, > > A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel {Bosnia}: > > A French army officer walked up to me in the PX and told me he thought we Americans were a bunch of cowboys and we were going to provoke a war in Iraq. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support of France. > I told him that didn't surprise me. Since we had come to France's rescue in world war I, world war II, Vietnam and the cold war, their ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface [again]at some point in the near future anyway I also told him that is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of pansies for soldiers. I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and action, not words, would do what ever it had to do, and France's support, if it ever came, was only for show anyway. Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the U.S. would shoulder 85% of the burden, and provide 85% of the support, as was evidenced by the fact that this French officer was shopping in the American PX,and not the other way around. He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would like to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and whip his ass in front of the entire Multinational Brigade East, thus demonstrating that even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average Frenchman. He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff. > > Dad, tell Mom I love her, > > Your Loving Daughter, > > Mary Beth Johnson, Lt.Col.,USMC