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To: Mr. Silverback

France waited quite a while after Germany invaded Poland. In fact they waited until France was overrun.


17 posted on 09/16/2007 12:33:51 PM PDT by RightWhale (Snow above 2000')
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To: RightWhale
France waited quite a while after Germany invaded Poland. In fact they waited until France was overrun.

Well, yeah. But, after that...

(LOL)

26 posted on 09/16/2007 12:42:23 PM PDT by SIDENET (I don't want to find "common ground" with a bunch of damn leftists.)
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To: RightWhale; DoughtyOne; Bommer; Mr. Silverback
"France waited quite a while after Germany invaded Poland. In fact they waited until France was overrun."

What was Italy doing back then? ...not that the WWII stuff is very relevant to our diplomacy with western Europe today. Political situations have changed in western Europe even more recently.

IRAN: ITALY MUST RELY ON TEHRAN TO BOOST ROLE IN MIDDLE EAST, DIPLOMAT ["Main trading partner."]
AKI (Italy) ^ | 10AUG06 | AKI (Italy)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690564/posts
Excerpt:
"Italy is Iran's main trading partner in Europe and commercial relations between the two countries were reportedly worth five billion euros in 2005."

IRAN: D'ALEMA, SANCTIONS WOULD ESPECIALLY DAMAGE ITALY
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Italy ^ | 26MAY06 | Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Italy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1639485/posts

Italy's out, and France has soldiers in Afghanistan, BTW. It would be nice, if we could get all of western Europe to help.
47 posted on 09/16/2007 1:28:14 PM PDT by familyop (U.S cbt. engr. (cbt.)--has-been, will write Duncan Hunter in)
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