Originally posted by john9001
"""Unfortunately, I'm sorry but we need some Allies right about now """"
you mean like france? france was never the allie of the US , and don't say 1776, france only helped the colonies because we were fighting england. france wanted payback for losing canada.
WW2, france grudgingly accepted help from US, (like they had a choice) and degaull insisted on going into paris first so it would look like he "liberated" the city.
WTF?? Where the heck did you learn history? Cracker Jack cartoons? Politicians are the same no matter what country they call home, but we have never had more supportive friends than the people of France. We just now built a national memorial to the vets of WWII. France has been remembering them for 60 years. And honoring them. Hell, I can remember my grandpa not getting most of his medals until the late 80s, and I know a few more WWII vets that have NEVER gotten medals they earned getting their butts shot off. Compare that to the scene I witnessed just yesterday here in Honolulu. France gave out Legion of Honor medals to WWII vets to remember them on the 60th anniversary of D-Day. One vet who lives here was unable to travel. So they came here and awarded him the medal. Politics or not, thats pretty damn cool of them. This guy was supposed to have gotten the Medal of Honor. The highest award we can give. Guess when he finally got his medal. Clinton gave it to him in 2001. 56 years he waited for that one, and still had to go to Washington to get it, they sure as heck werent bringing it to him.
I guess you never saw pictures of the memorials the French people built after the 9/11 attacks for us. The expressions of sympathy and support.
How about the fact that still to this very day we do not have a national memorial to those who died in WWI. They have one in FRANCE though.
French politicians may be real arse-holios just like most of ours, but the people support us like no one else in the world. So in the famous words of Archie Bunker.......
STIFLE!
