please stop bashing France

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:27:38 +0100, Greg Hennessy wrote:
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:57:57 +0100, ess (phil hunt)
wrote:

The Eisenhower
administration did disagree with France and the UK about how to settle the
issue, but did nothing in the way of interfering with French and British
actions.

This is only true if "withdraw or we'll **** your economy" counts as
nothing.

Try "withdraw" or we'll stop underwriting the loans you are using to buy
votes with.

Which amounts to the same thing. I'm glad you agree with me.

--
"It's easier to find people online who openly support the KKK than
people who openly support the RIAA" -- comment on Wikipedia
(My real email address would be if you added 275
to it and reversed the last two letters).

"Garrison Hilliard" wrote in message
...

Chad Irby wrote:

Well, since you've been tossing around words like "genocide," you should
be able to get the names of the countries they supposedly happened in...

Yeah. Franck... "Barbie" is just an American fashion doll, right?

A spelling flame, particularly applied to someone for whom English isn't
their first language, is *really* a sign you've lost the plot.

John

Declan O'Reilly wrote:
lekomin inc wrote:
a nice soul searching session

I agree that the Polish contribution to the
Iraqi Freedom might seem
pathetic to many people. But we have send
our finest (GROM is the finest of
the Polish military units). We have no resources
to send 10 thousand troops
neither now nor we will have itin 10 or 20
years. Polish troops went for the
Iraqi Freedom OP as we wanted to show that
we care. In reality US/UK would
have done the same, that is superb, without
Poles. Everybody knows that. But
in other times, maybe less fortunate for Poland
then right now, we might
need help from countries that don't really
need to help. We hope they will
help for seemingly idiotic reasons, the same
as Poland did in Iraq. Freedom
is not granted and you need to fight for it.
take care
lekomin inc


What is GROM anyways

I know that its english translation is storm
, but what exactly is the
unit. Is it a desant unit modeled after old
soviet formations , or is it
more like an american ranger unit.

Also what your guys did was outstanding , plus
your government for
sending them , it says more to send troops to
a combat theater , than
all the words in the UN.

Declan O'Reilly

Didn't the Poles help out the SEALs in seizing the two offshore oil terminals
before they could be blown? I recall news reports about the Poles securing
a platform at one of the terminals and finding the place all wired and ready
to go up. The folks who went must be their SEAL equivalent.

Posted via www.My-Newsgroups.com - web to news gateway for usenet access!

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 15:41:11 +0100, ess (phil hunt)
wrote:


This is only true if "withdraw or we'll **** your economy" counts as
nothing.

Try "withdraw" or we'll stop underwriting the loans you are using to buy
votes with.

Which amounts to the same thing. I'm glad you agree with me.

No, "**** your economy" implies that the money was being used to do
something productive.

Instead the UK blew huge loans on social welfare while places like France
and Germany were using marshall plan aid and loans to develop new and
improved infrastructure.

A price we paid bitterly for in the 70s and early 80s.

greg
--
$ReplyAddress =~ s#\@.*$##; # Delete everything after the '@'
The Following is a true story.....
Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty.

"Franck" wrote in message
...
The US didn't like Iran because of the hostage situation in 1980. The
attempt to make an "ally" of him failed.

could you explain me the role of US gvt and CIA on the military support of
Iran between 1984 to 1987 (Irangate)

Congess had acted to usurp Executive Authority WRT South America and the CIA
provided a means to fund covert operations; without vioaling US Law.

without vioaling US Law.

lol, incredible

Franck

www.pegase-airshow.com
www.picavia.com

In article ,
"John Mullen" wrote:

"Garrison Hilliard" wrote in message
...

Chad Irby wrote:

Well, since you've been tossing around words like "genocide," you should
be able to get the names of the countries they supposedly happened in...

Yeah. Franck... "Barbie" is just an American fashion doll, right?

A spelling flame, particularly applied to someone for whom English isn't
their first language, is *really* a sign you've lost the plot.

No, a pun on a bad spelling, missed completely by all concerned, is a
sign you've missed the plot.

"Chili" genocide," you know. I'm just shocked that *none* of our
"English speakers" got it.

--
cirby at cfl.rr.com

Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations.
Slam on brakes accordingly.

Call it as you want, 3000 people killed in this country by Pinochet
governement with support of US governement

ok genocide wasn't the good word but the fact are your country help this
dictator ( september 11st ..1973) and the result was a great democratie
isn't it ?

--
Franck

www.pegase-airshow.com
www.picavia.com

"Chad Irby" wrote in message
. com...
In article ,
"John Mullen" wrote:

"Garrison Hilliard" wrote in message
...

Chad Irby wrote:

Well, since you've been tossing around words like "genocide," you
should
be able to get the names of the countries they supposedly happened
in...

Yeah. Franck... "Barbie" is just an American fashion doll, right?

A spelling flame, particularly applied to someone for whom English isn't
their first language, is *really* a sign you've lost the plot.

No, a pun on a bad spelling, missed completely by all concerned, is a
sign you've missed the plot.

"Chili" genocide," you know. I'm just shocked that *none* of our
"English speakers" got it.

Oh, I 'got' the 'joke' ok. Just saw it for what it was, a diversion from the
fact you have nothing to contribute and have lost the argument.

John

In article ,
"Franck" wrote:

Call it as you want, 3000 people killed in this country by Pinochet
governement with support of US governement

ok genocide wasn't the good word but the fact are your country help this
dictator ( september 11st ..1973) and the result was a great democratie
isn't it ?

It was during the Cold War, and when you have a choice between a
horrible guy on your side versus a horrible guy on the other guy's side,
you have to make some ugly choices... and we did. But no worse (and
usually better) than some of the other "free" countries around the world
at the time. Like the Shah of Iran, who was a nasty *******, but
certainly better than what replaced him. Or just about anyone in South
America.

Luckily, most of the Socialist and Communist countries have collapsed,
and the ones that are left are slowly starting to transition to
capitalism. We're starting to get a wider choice in what we consider
"allies" now, instead of settling for whoever happened to want to trade
with us.

--
cirby at cfl.rr.com

Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations.
Slam on brakes accordingly.