Viva la Frogs.....
And this in the email bin today from Joe Galloway.........
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January 24th, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial critical of the French position vis-a-vis American policy toward Iraq. This generated several comments from readers. Here are two published on Tuesday, February 3rd:
"The 20th century will remember France as the only nation that failed to fire a shot in defense of its capital, that while under occupation rounded up its Jews for the Nazis without even being ordered to do so, that scuttled its navy rather than flee to the Allies to continue the struggle, that produced films and sang in night clubs for Nazis so as to live happily ever after as a Vichy ally of the Nazis while millions of others fought for their liberation (after the war we were told that all Frenchmen were in the Resistance), that tried to build a nuclear reactor (read nuclear bomb) for Iraq, that is so filled with self-doubt that the use of a couple of foreign words like telephone or drugstore causes a national stroke, that threatens to use a veto right against the very nation that granted it that right as a sop gift, that is so obsessed with international impotence that it openly wishes for death and destruction upon a stronger ally, but in the guise of a higher morality (read appeasement).
Jacques Chirac recently declared that "war is total failure." Luckily for him and France the Allies felt differently in his own lifetime or there wouldn't be a nation called France today. After a century of abysmal decisions, for which tens of thousands of American lie dead in that country, France should have the decency to keep quiet and the U. S. should have the good sense not to listen."
Another writer was more succinct:
"God bless France! She's always there when she needs us."
And this in the email bin today from Joe Galloway.........
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January 24th, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial critical of the French position vis-a-vis American policy toward Iraq. This generated several comments from readers. Here are two published on Tuesday, February 3rd:
"The 20th century will remember France as the only nation that failed to fire a shot in defense of its capital, that while under occupation rounded up its Jews for the Nazis without even being ordered to do so, that scuttled its navy rather than flee to the Allies to continue the struggle, that produced films and sang in night clubs for Nazis so as to live happily ever after as a Vichy ally of the Nazis while millions of others fought for their liberation (after the war we were told that all Frenchmen were in the Resistance), that tried to build a nuclear reactor (read nuclear bomb) for Iraq, that is so filled with self-doubt that the use of a couple of foreign words like telephone or drugstore causes a national stroke, that threatens to use a veto right against the very nation that granted it that right as a sop gift, that is so obsessed with international impotence that it openly wishes for death and destruction upon a stronger ally, but in the guise of a higher morality (read appeasement).
Jacques Chirac recently declared that "war is total failure." Luckily for him and France the Allies felt differently in his own lifetime or there wouldn't be a nation called France today. After a century of abysmal decisions, for which tens of thousands of American lie dead in that country, France should have the decency to keep quiet and the U. S. should have the good sense not to listen."
Another writer was more succinct:
"God bless France! She's always there when she needs us."
