This is what the D-Day was for...

"Shiver Me Timbers" wrote in message
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John Gaquin wrote:

Not really. have to go back over 400 years to find the french trace.

Must be tough to be ashamed of your heritage.

Even worse to not even have one, eh Timbers?

"Bob Fry" wrote in message
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Skysurfer writes:

One (between others) thing France has managed to do :
http://www.specialoperations.com/Cou...rism/gign.html

And another thing the French managed to do recently is avoid helping
to create another terrorist state in the Middle East.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Oh, Bob, you're a riot!

AES/newspost wrote :

The French would obviously have much preferred to keep on doing
lucrative business deals [1] with the, shall we say,
"pre-terrorist" state that Iraq was prior to our "ill-considered
efforts" [2].

[1] Lucrative for French businesses and French politicians, as I
think we now are aware.

"No more persuasive is the widely voiced (in the U.S.) argument that
the French were defending wide-reaching and profitable commercial
relationships with Saddam's regime. The truth is that France enjoyed
minor economic ties with Saddam. Under the United Nations'
now-defunct Oil for Food program with Saddam's Iraq, the French were
only the 13th-largest participant. The U.S. under that program
bought more than 50 percent of Iraq's total oil exports, the French
8 percent."

See :

"The French Were Right" (The National Journal)
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njw...03/1107nj1.htm

Bob Fry wrote :

Skysurfer writes:

One (between others) thing France has managed to do :
http://www.specialoperations.com/Cou...rism/gign.html

And another thing the French managed to do recently is avoid
helping to create another terrorist state in the Middle East.

"France was the only country, other than the United States, to
conduct air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan, with their
Mirage jets and Super Etenard fighters hitting more than 30 targets
during Operation Anaconda in March 2002. The French enthusiastically
backed the Afghanistan war, breaking with Washington only on the
Iraq question."

See : "The French Were Right" (The National Journal)
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njw...03/1107nj1.htm

"Gunnar" wrote in message
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The French "invented" air to air kills with the shoot down of a german on
the 8. october 1914. The french pilot was Sergant Frantz.

An accident no doubt.

"Shiver Me Timbers" wrote in message
news:310520042112065225%
Must be tough to be ashamed of your heritage.

I wouldn't know.

They should after all be arrested... but in the real world this would
start
WWIII...

What a disturbingly warped view of the world.

This bizarre post casts a sliver of light on the mind-set that created (and
continues to create) the terrorists -- better than any deliberate
explanation ever could.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

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Skysurfer wrote:

AES/newspost wrote :

The French would obviously have much preferred to keep on doing
lucrative business deals [1] with the, shall we say,
"pre-terrorist" state that Iraq was prior to our "ill-considered
efforts" [2].

[1] Lucrative for French businesses and French politicians, as I
think we now are aware.

"No more persuasive is the widely voiced (in the U.S.) argument that
the French were defending wide-reaching and profitable commercial
relationships with Saddam's regime. The truth is that France enjoyed
minor economic ties with Saddam. Under the United Nations'
now-defunct Oil for Food program with Saddam's Iraq, the French were
only the 13th-largest participant. The U.S. under that program
bought more than 50 percent of Iraq's total oil exports, the French
8 percent."


But the relevant question is not who _bought_ the oil, it's where (and
how) did the Iraqis _spend_ the proceeds from those purchases? And a
fair amount of info on that has come out since the occupation.

[Memorable quote from Christopher Hitchens as one of four participants
in a quite well done public debate at UCLA just days before Bush gave
the orders to go: "Saddam Hussein never failed to offer a bribe -- and
Jacques Chirac never failed to take one."]

And the veterans who landed are going to be excluded from visiting the
invasion beaches because of the security. The politicians should stay
home and let the vets have their day. Almost half a million won't be
here next year.

Dave Reinhart


Shiver Me Timbers wrote:

HECTOP wrote:

I know this is gonna start a riot, but...

Why would it start a riot.

Sad reflection perhaps, but prudent, logical, common sense
in todays political climate.

In a previous article, said:
And the veterans who landed are going to be excluded from visiting the
invasion beaches because of the security. The politicians should stay

Can you point me to a cite for that? I can't find it on any of the
reputable news sources - or even Fox.


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