EU as joke (modified)

Cub Driver wrote:

We (germany) already payed your ****in 2nd Gulf War.


Really? It was my impression that you paid zilch = nichts = nada =
zip. You have certainly kept your largesse secret from the rest of the
world.

Also, you still owe us for World War I and World War II, after each of
which unpleasantness the American taxpayer rebuilt your heel-clicking
country. I especially liked the aftermath of WWI. The U.S. sent the
money to Germany, which cashed the check and sent it along to Britain
in war reparations.

Much the same thing will happen in Iraq. We will send billions to
Iraq, which will cash the check and send the money along to the
German, French, and Russian companies that supplied Saddam's war
machine.


Yeah right. Read the cover article in this week's newsweek and see where
the money's going. Not to France, Germany or Russia.


Europe! The loose federation of free-loaders!

(Don Rumsfeld's useful distinction between Old Europe and New Europe
should be mentioned here. The peripheral states--Poland, Spain, and
Britain notably among them--are not so pompously selfish as the
central axis of France and Germany, with their ancillary organs like
the Dutch marching band.)


I understand your admiration for the Dutch `Marinierskapel' or the
`Luchtmachtorkest'. It's part of a tradition going back a few hundred
years and `esprit de corps' (yes, I know, that's French). However, your
comments seem to indicate you have some sort of beef with the
Netherlands (which supported the War in Iraq by the way, against the
will of the majority of it's population, flew more combat missions over
Kosovo than the UK and participated in operations in Afghanistan as part
of `The war against terror'). Why do you keep bringing up 'the Dutch
marching band'? Is it some vague reference to Dutch Peace Keepers in
Srebrenica perhaps? If so, I'd love to read your opinion on that.
Regards,
Ralph Savelsberg