A Grateful Briton

London Daily Mail ^ | March 14, 2003 | James Black

[Republic of Texas]

The difference between the Brits and the French? See above.

[XJarhead]

J.S. Mill was wrong about a lot of things, but this is one of history's great quotes:

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Again, the difference between Britain and France.

[mikeIII]

Over weight and not over here?

[Textide]

Nice post.

[CyberAnt]

"Your president may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery set"

He had me til then!

Anybody with half an ounce of brains knows Bush is sharper than any of the democrats in this country. That's why they hate him so much!! They thought he was a political lightweight and he has turned out to be a very heavy weight indeed!!

[RichInOC]

"Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell's the matter with you? Stupid! We're all very different people; we're not Watusi, we're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital A, huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're underdogs, we're mutts! (Here's proof: his nose is cold.) But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more loveable than the mutt. Who saw 'Old Yeller?' Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end? Nobody cried when Old Yeller got shot? [hands are reluctantly raised] I cried my eyes out. So we're all dog faces, we're all very, very different, but there is one thing that we all have in common: we were all stupid enough to enlist in the Army. We're mutants, there's something wrong with us, there's something very, very wrong with us. Something seriously wrong with us. We're soldiers, American soldiers! We've been kicking ass for 200 years, we're 10 and 1. Now we don't have to worry about whether or not we practiced. We don't have to worry about whether Captain Diller wants to have us hung. All we have to dooooo is to be the great American fighting soldier that is inside each one of us. Now do what I do, and say what I say. And make me proud."

Pvt. John Winger (Bill Murray), "Stripes"

[lilylangtree]

I take exception to the insult to Dubya. Otherwise, he wrote a decent letter.

[Happygal]

This was posted AGES ago.

[Republic of Texas]

Hadn't seen that quote in a while. Thanks for posting it. More importantly, thanks for your service.

[Beck_isright]

V

[Happygal]

There has also been a thread about the responses James Black got here: Link

[hang 'em]

Hey, we have better dentistry too.

[Ooh-Ah]

Sorry, I could not find it in the search.
BTW, this was sent to me by a "French" journalist! There is at least one good one.

[Happygal]

Just trying to keep you all up to date.

[Eala]

This was posted AGES ago.

Yes, but worth a re-post, IMHO.

9 posted on 04/03/2003 12:39 PM PST by Happygal (I'm sure there is a biblical passage to support my view)

On this??? LOL.

[Happygal]

BTW, this was sent to me by a "French" journalist! There is at least one good one.

One good what?
Frenchman?
Or journalist? ;-)

[Happygal]

On this??? LOL.

On EVERYTHING! *L* Didn't you know that there's a bible passage that supports everything? Even both sides of the same argument? :-)

[Johnny Gage]

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We have a winner here!

This definitely deserves a:

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