To: Recovering_Democrat
BREAKING NEWS! France surrenders to the A.P.!!
To: Trust but Verify
LOL -This is series! I am getting in the shower. France just surrendered to the AP Wire
8 posted on
02/04/2003 7:53:07 AM PST by
ewing
To: Trust but Verify
Who says that France was our ally during WWII?
The truth is that France caved in surprisingly fast to the Germans and then enthusiastically became Vichy France. They persecuted the Jews, they persecuted the VERY few members of the French underground, and they actively opposed us in the N. Africa campaign and in naval necessities in the Atlantic.
After WWII, when confronted with the need to oppose the Soviet Union, it was France who tipped the apple cart by telling America that our soldiers were not welcome on French soil. In Vietnam, incapable of containing a budding communist movement, the French didn't ally with America....they pulled out. Oh, Korea.....Korea was a UN action. Does anyone know what France contributed? ONE (1) Battalion and ONE (1) Naval Vessel -- they were right up there with Ethiopia and Columbia. Battalions were larger at that time -- in the neighborhood of 1000 troops -- so this isn't an attempt to impugn the 260 French who died in the Korean War. However, it does say that a nation the size of France seems suspiciously underrepresented.
When has France been our ally?
Desert Storm. That's it. I believe they had a brigade or division perform a blocking action on the western edge of Schwarzkopf's "hail Mary."
39 posted on
02/04/2003 7:57:03 AM PST by
xzins
(Babylon - You have been weighed in the balance and been found wanting.)
To: Trust but Verify
ROFL!
To: Trust but Verify
152 posted on
02/04/2003 8:47:10 AM PST by
Redcloak
(Join the Coalition to Prevent Unnecessarily Verbose and Nonsensical Tag Lines, eh)
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