These guys are unbelieveable!

[X2Lee]

Originally posted by straffo
calm down and reread the article.

Read it fine, why are they even saying that?
Theres no weapons to worry about.
I hope US declines the help at this point, not like we need it.

Bork bork    

[X2Lee]

Originally posted by Rude


What about when he used them against his own people?

The French simply got outmanuevered and are doing the crab....ya know, it's good to know who your friends really are.

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Dang Rude that first sentance was sooooo cool.
Ya oughta be a lawyer...

[Tumor]

Originally posted by X2Lee
Read it fine, why are they even saying that?
Theres no weapons to worry about.
I hope US declines the help at this point, not like we need it.

Bork bork    

Are you saying there are no WMD or are you saying THEY (French) are saying (or betting) there are no weapons?

Just for the record... I'll bet any weapons found (at least the first few) will be declared "planted" by the U.S. (err... declared by "allies in opposition to the use of force".. naturally Saddam will say that)

....any takers?

[straffo]

Originally posted by Dowding
Really? You're catching heat in the MA over this crap?

That's out of order. I've pissed off plenty of people and haven't received anything.

Have any of them insulted your wife?

I'm used too it now.
It happened before the recent event too ...
When I started AH some 3 year ago I was very surprised to be insulted by some American just because I was french.


Why this question about my wife ?

[Dowding]

Nothing straffo - nothing to do with you or your wife. I was trolling for someone, so don't scare the fish away.

I'm really sad to hear that mate. I thought the nobheads were a minority in real life. Name a few names. It's unacceptable.

[Airhead]

I was getting so many rude IMs in the MA I finally gave up my account. LOL Why pay fifty cents a day to get insulted? I can get that for free from my mother in law.

[Rasker]

Originally posted by ra
Does this mean what I think it means?  The French wouldn't board the train when Hitler was invading Poland, either.

ra

France, and Britain, did honor their pact with Poland.  They were reluctant, but that was understandible given their losses in WWI.  The French managed a small offensive across the Rhine, attempting to take pressure off of Poland, but didn't sustain it.

Ironically, the problem could have been disposed of earlier with *zero* loss of life.  When Hitler directed that German troops move into the Rhineland in violation of the Versaille Treaty, the German General Staff, led by Ludwig Beck, was ready to arrest Hitler as a lunatic, if the French had so much as begun to mobilize the reserves.  That was never done, as France was badly polarized between left and right, and still traumatized from the last war.  "For the want of a nail, the war was lost."

[Meatwad]

Found this online


"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes." ---Mark Twain

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." --- General George S. Patton

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." --- Norman Schwartzkopf

"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." ---- Marge Simpson

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure" ---Jacques Chirac, President of France

"As far as France is concerned, you're right." ---Rush Limbaugh

"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee." --- Regis Philbin

"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know." --- P.J O'Rourke (1989)

"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it." ---John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona

"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He is French, people ---Conan O'Brien

"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the German out of France!" ---Jay Leno

"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag." ---David Letterman

Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France!!

[Meatwad]

Nice but true

[Pongo]

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." --- Norman Schwartzkopf


lol
is that a true quote?

[Rasker]

We've seen this before, but not yet today:

French find proof of German rearmament -

[Shuckins]

The average French fighting man is neither more, nor less, brave than his contemporaries from any country.  Out or respect for those Frenchmen, both soldier and civilian, who died fighting the Germans during WWII, I will not disparage the competence or courage of their descendants.  They shouldn't be stigmatized by us because of the faults or idiocies of French diplomats or generals.

Regards, Shuckins

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"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man!"  George S. Patton

[Rasker]

Right, as descendant, in part of immensely courageous French warriors, I can only imagine their chagrin at the current leadership of their country.