France and the US

Luis G

Luis G

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Let's hate the french.
Yes, the US freed Paris in WW2, US soldiers died for them, etc etc, blablabla.

France is not supporting the war on Iraq, and the US is pissed off with them, french fries are now called "freedom fries" (lol), people stopped selling french wines and all the things we've read in these days.

But there's something i haven't read in all this issue, tsk tsk tsk, and that is the French support to the independence of the US.

So if it wasn't for the US, Paris would not have been freed in WW2, but if it wasn't for France the US might not have obtained their independence.
 
I already pointed that out in one of these "lets hate France" threads. I think I may have said it too jokingly....
 
...which is why I don't buy any of it. Its just chest thumping. The world has a very short term memory. Situations are always dynamic. I think you can only draw such stuff up from within the living memory of the current generation ... say, 20 years. Everything else is just far too removed to be of directly applicable merit.
 
I can't appreciate the extent to which this hate thing has gone. But todays France isn't the same as it was during the revolution and neither are we. Things change...
 
The media is a business like any other business. They are there to get high ratings so they can charge more for their advertising. They will do whatever has to be done to sensationalize the most trivial of matters. Emotion sells.
 
The latest thing that French apologists have come up with is, "You people are bashing the French, but they helped us in the American Revolution! Oh and do you want to give the Statue of Liberty back?" Let's see, roughly 220 years ago the French helped us revolt against the Brits and about 105 years after that they gave us the Statue of Liberty. That being the case, isn't it time that the French took a break from their customary treacherous weaselry and gave us a hand? I guess they've decided to take a hundred years off this time around, but maybe they'll make it up to us in the 22nd century.
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France Announces Troop Deployment
World news.




President Jacques Chirac announced today that France would be
deploying two elite units of French troops to Iraq in the event of
war. Five hundred crack troops from the 42nd Groupement d' instruction
en Abandonment (42nd Surrender Instruction Group) are mobilizing to
assist the Iraqi Army in the finer points of military surrender.

"The immediate capitulation of an armed force is a delicate and
intricate tactic in which we French have much experience." said
Defense Ministry spokesperson General de Armee Francois-Phillippe
Hommes de Petit-Pommes.

"There is a certain protocol in laying down your arms or fleeing the
battlefield. To wave the white flag while remaining pompous and
insufferable requires experience and training.

The French Army believes it is second to none in the fine art of
surrendering quickly. The record of our armed forces in that area
speaks for itself. The Iraqi performance in giving up without a fight
during the last Gulf War was slip-shod. We hope to improve their level
of surrender execution for the next war."

General Hommes de Petit-Pommes further announced that 1,000 advisors
from the Regiment de Collaborateurs Francais will also be dispatched
to Iraq to assist the Iraqi people in colloborating effectively with
any occupation force.
 
i didn't realise that international conflicts were undertaken on a 'favour' basis. does that mean that we can trawl the past for wars we've won and claim people 'owe us one'?
 
unclehobart said:
The media is a business like any other business. They are there to get high ratings so they can charge more for their advertising. They will do whatever has to be done to sensationalize the most trivial of matters. Emotion sells.
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that's what i meant.

and a lot of people are stupid enough to believe every thing the media tells them.
 
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