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The following was sent to me. I don'tk know whether it is truth or UL, but I sincerely hope the former:


Dear Dad,

A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia):

A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we Americans were a bunch of cowboys and was going to provoke a war in Iraq. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support of France.

I told him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had come to France's rescue in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface [again] at some point in the near future anyway.

I also told him that is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of pansies for soldiers. I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and action, not words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support, if it ever came, was only for show anyway.

Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the burden, and provide 85% of the support, as evidenced by the fact that this French officer was shopping in the American PX, and not the other way around.

He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would like to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and whip his ass in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade East, thus demonstrating that even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average Frenchman.

He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff.
With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Dad, tell Mom I love her,
Your loving daughter,
Mary Beth Johnson Lt. Col., USMC
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I don't know if it's true or not but that letter has been making the rounds for the last few months.
 
Don't automaticly discount the French. Their Foreign Legion is one of the... Oh, wait a minute, they're not French.
 
And I hope it's true too. Maybe during WWII our guys should have circumvented France and they could all be speaking German by now.:)
 
Had a pal who served in the French Foreign Legion -- captured by the Germans in WWII, "libertated" by the Russians and then 5 years in Nam. He wised up -- didn't reup, came to the US and became a citizen.
 
It's no surprise the French won't help us get Saddam Hussein out of Iraq. They didn't help us get Germany out of France, either. Still, it's essential for them to join us in the war against Iraq. They can teach the Iraqis how to surrender.

What do you call 100,000 Frenchmen with their hands up?
The army.

FOR SALE: French rifles . . .never fired, only dropped once.

:D
 
Okay folks,lets separate our unhappiness with Chirac from "the French" in the interest of our good friend Stephensee, if for no other reason. Would we have wanted the world to define us by the actions of our last President?

Oil on troubled waters in this forum...

Stephen
 
While Im not a big fan of the French (I really hated Godard's films, and french thinker Foucalt still makes my brain hurt), I will say they were the only ones to go into Rwanda and try and put a stop to the carnage when no one else would (though I blame that mostly on someone whose name rhymes with Gil Blinton who put pressure on the UN to prevent other countries from interfering for fear of US troops being involved and having to deal with a Somalia like event all over again).
 
This thread was not started as a slam against the French. I just thought it was a funny story. Substitute any nationality for "French army officer", and it's still funny.

It is true, though, that Germany doesn't have many good cheeses.
 
Berk, just a bit too high class for around here - don't worry about it.

We gotta put a sign up outside the Cantina that says to clean the manure off yer boots before you come in and park 'em next to the wood stove. Although the aroma of steam coming off drying boots that've been in tromping in horse and cow doo doo all day don't seem to make no nevermind to the rest of the folks round the crackerbarrel. They probly think that's the way everbody smells.

PS: I suspect the letter is Urban Legend.
 
Lots of good things have come out of France. Bridgette Bardot and the french tickler come to mind. And of course our Statue of Liberty. :)

Americans like to poke fun for some reason. Hail, in West Kentucky we talk about the "cuzzins" and "ridge runners" in East Kentucky. Don't know what they call us but I'm sure it ain't nice. :p
 
Semp - as they say in D.C., "Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"
 
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