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Every time some bad news comes out of Britain, up pops some clown to declare that all Brits are commies and "we saved your asses twice" etc...

For a start, the title of the article should have tipped you off to the fact that 60% of us oppose the leftward drift in British society, and thus share your conservative American values.

How would it sound if, every time a news story broke about the VIP treatment of muslim terrorists under the Obama maladministration, we Brits accused the entire American population of surrendering to Islam, and taunted you for saving your "sorry asses" from the French, during the French & Indian Wars of 1754–1763?

Are you one of the millions of Americans who seem to believe that the USA declared war on Hitler in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor? The embarrassing reality is that three days after the Japanese attack, Hitler gave up waiting for such a response and himself declared war on the United States. We now know that he had been planning since the mid-thirties to attack America, and the development of the long-range bombers and V-2 rockets was proceeding rapidly toward that end (you didn't think Verner von Braun went to all that trouble just to bomb London did you?).

Britain stood alone against Hitler for two years while the likes of Henry Ford made money out of both sides and the likes of Joseph Kennedy prayed that Germany would invade Britain. While "self-interest" kept the US out of the fight against a fascist war machine which had America in its sights, Britain paid the price in blood, and afterwards in "reparations" of $4,336 million - the last repayment being made in 2006.

So this week's Mel Gibson Award for Anti-Britishness goes to "kdot."

For the record, I took a salary cut to come to the United States. If I'd known Obama was going to get into the White House I would have stayed at home with all those foreigners.

Anti British? That’s ridiculous! I only know 3 couples and they are the outspoken “anti” people. I hope if I chose to go to another country where I can work and make a living, that I have the courtesy to be humble and the common sense to be greatful. These people are neither. And it strikes the wrong chord when a group we helped defend cuts down or mocks our military.

Guests in our country should show some appreciation and gratitude for a system that built a country great enough to host them. If not, the only deserved “anti” label is anti American.