Posted on 07/06/2002 8:59:49 AM PDT by ginle
Stupidity like this makes me wonder whether FR needs an Idiotic Post Of The Day Award, to complement RJayne's 'Quote of the Week.'
You'd win a shelf of trophies, pronto.
Folks, just because it's reported in the Guardian, or Daily Globe, or any of the other UK rags doesn't make it a reflection of the British people (or German or Australian or whatever) anymore than what Dan Rather says reflects OUR thinking.
I have been to the UK, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and yes even France--as a GI--and the people I've befriended and been befriended by knew I was a GI--and have found them to be hard-working conservatives like so many here in the USA. Many have even thanked me for serving, remembering the sacrafices American fighting men have made for their own freedom. You really have to see it for yourself. Don't trust what the LEFT-WING media says, no matter what country their rags are written in.
True. One minor detail that seems to get lost in the shuffle, of the major combatants, only America and Britain, followed by Germany at the end, were fighting on more than one major front. The Russians, for all the credit the world wants to give them for beating the Nazis, didn't lift a finger to fight the Japanese. America took a major burden on itself to carry a heavy load on both fronts, it deserves some major props.
Oh, ho ho...unfair, you're bringing nukes to a knife fight.
Actually, you're right, but the chorus of anti-US sentiment in Britain as well as the Continent, is rising to such a fever pitch at the moment that we yanks deserve a moment or two to stick our middle finger right back at them, our idealogical mates on the other side of the pond excluded, of course. The Mirror used our recent national holiday to take a venemous stab at us, so screw the Mirror 'journalists' and the syphillus-infested whores that bore them.
Again, more personal attacks. If you can't prove your argument, attack the person you're debating. We'll probably still have come to your rescue when the chinese beat up on you guys. And they will. It's just a matter of time. Since your socialist government took all your guns away, I doubt your country could protect a 'roo.
Face facts : the real war is against liberalism and socialism, both of which know no geographical boundaries. There are gun grabbers in CA and MA worse than anything we have Downunder, let me tell you. My friendly suggestion to you is, forget all the crap you're being told about how all Brits/French /Aussies/everybody "hates the US." It's all lies, designed to divide us. As BobJ said in one of the first replies, "the media is the real enemy."
The USA deserves the credit for finishing off the Soviet Union. I have no illusions that without America's help we British would be speaking Russian, but not German.
The Russians, for all the credit the world wants to give them for beating the Nazis, didn't lift a finger to fight the Japanese. America took a major burden on itself to carry a heavy load on both fronts, it deserves some major props.
The Soviets were a joke, they colluded with Hitler and then almost got finished off by him. Their methods of fighting were also so inefficient they lost many times the number of troops the NAZIs lost. They won because their population was so large they could afford to fight a war of attrition.
Yes, that's right, its a hypothetical situation. I never said that without the USA's help it would have happened.
I have no problem with you saying that without the USA's help we would be speaking Russian, but not German. Because without the atomic bomb, which was of course completed in the USA in 1945, there would have been a third World War.
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