Posted on 06/27/2016 1:47:57 PM PDT by snarkpup
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In my later years I realized that French Wine, Tires and Skis were to be cherished and enjoyed.
Hardly! French is THE Diplomatic Language of the world and always has been. Everything that comes out of the UN is printed in English( The Commercial Language) and French (the Diplomatic Language.)
Oh shut the hell up! France saved our ass bigtime. Without France we wouldn’t be a country.
Thanks
That’s why they were fighting beside us in Afghanistan? That’s why the French sent their flattop Charles de Gaulle to back up the US in the Gulf? That’s why the French are flying missions with the US against ISIS? Germany has NO SOLDIER in harms way. The French are beside us where it matters. You knee-jerk idiots are sickening. The ungrateful arrogant pricks are people like YOU!
Lol.
Wonderful and I can believe all of them, from my own experiences.
Actually, I’ve met very good folks on my travels to France. But suffice it to say, the French Government, and to a lesser extent, too many Parisians are the “real” arrogant pricks to which you refer. They are men with underdeveloped penises and elevator shoes who are somehow trying to be relevant it the world today.
And America arranged it that the official language of Great Britain was not German.
Congratulations to have seen the enormous error in this “reporting.”
They both speak Gaelic.
My Vietnamese friends invited me to their house where they spoke French, served French cuisine (suckling pig), French wine, and loved their niece though her father was a French officer who somehow escaped Dien Bien Phu.
But...the husband was a noncommunist nationalist in Hanoi (they fled south in 1954). He told me that whenever he & his friends got together to celebrate their cause with red wine, they called it “toasting with French blood”.
Things French? I own a WWI Berthier rifle & a Lebel revolver. Brought a MAS 36 rifle from Vietnam. Mom has a Unique .25 pistol acquired in Paris in 1945 when she was with the American Red Cross.
1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided America in a World at War- Marc Wortman, April 19, 2016 There was no consensus in America to fight for Britain and France, until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and Hitler - voluntarily, not as a treaty obligation - declared war on the US.
FDR was very concerned with the potential acquisition of the Royal Navy by Hitler.
When he invaded the USSR in June, 1941 Hitler was far from the only one who thought he would conquer it in a few months. He wanted/needed the oil fields in particular. FDR right-hand-man Harry Hopkins (he actually lived in the WH) interviewed Stalin and concluded that, with help, the USSR would be able to resist for far longer than others supposed. FDR immediately diverted some fighters from their planned destination (support of the British defense of the Suez) to the USSR.
Throughout the pre-Pearl Harbor era, Charles Lindberg was the chief spokesman against provocation of Hitler entailed in FDR’s aggressive help for Germany’s opponents. And public sentiment was 80% against intervention in WWII.
You are showing your ignorance of the French people and adherence to the Hollywood version of a Frenchman stereotyped to the most ridiculous degree. I can guarantee my 6’3” Onzieme Choc Commando paratrooper husband would have hung these anti-French pricks on this board on a coathanger to dry.
Each country gets to choose a language. The Irish chose Gaelic as their official language. Those on Malta chose Maltese.
December 7, 1941 it was the Japs. Then Hitler declared war on the US starting with Operation DrumBeat which was the German submarine assault on US Shipping. More than 5000 US Merchantmen were lost in the horrendous first eight months of 1942 along the Atlantic Seaboard. I remember. Unfortunately, it took quit a while for Admiral king to get it through his thick head that our ships needed to move in CONVOY. Once this tactic was utilized, losses plummeted.
The Europeans like our Western movies. I vote for Lakota as the EU language. Tatonka! Where’s my tatonka? Have you seen my tatonka?
Too bad, France,there’s only one dominant second language in the world now, and it’s not French.
I call your attention to post #68.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3444172/posts?page=68#68
This has to be one of the greatest examples of pure jibberish ever to appear on FreeRepublic. (At least till the next time hondact200 decides he has something of import to say.)
Perhaps it’s the strain of living with lies and knowing that he’s tried to capitalize on the suffering and death of real heroes through his Stolen Valor that has finally rotted his tiny brain.
HondaBoi - you can post all you want.
It won’t change the fact that we know you for a liar and a fraud.
We never forget our true heroes.
Nor will we forget slimy prevaricators like you.
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