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To: ExSoldier
I sent this link around to some of my friends and got a ton of stuff that had been omitted, so I thought I'd post it....

Agincourt, the fact that the French executed 10% of their own soldiers in WW I when they pulled out of the line and marched on Paris, and the fact that after France lost WW II to a smaller attacking Nazi Army which had fewer, poorer tanks, the Vichy Government collaborated fully with the Nazis in rounding up Jews and their own resistance members for extermination.

The US Army also heeld up on the outskirts of Paris to permit Charles DeGaulle to march in first and lead the victory parade.

For years, the French had a tacit agreement with the world's terrorists that if they committed no crimes on French soil, they could live there unmolested. Carlos the Jackal did so for years.

One of my active duty friends also had this to say and I can only agree....

"Of all the countries in the world to despise, I would think that the French would look first to the country which has attacked them three times in the past 130 years, rather than the country which rescued them twice. They are truly the laughingstock of the free world, and a bunch of filthy, unwashed, arrogant, cowardly, ungrateful bastards to boot."

67 posted on 02/06/2003 3:49:28 PM PST by ExSoldier
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To: ExSoldier
I traveled through France while we were stationed in Germany and in the Alsace region there were quite a few beautiful castle ruins. I was curious about why they were destroyed. I was told that the Swedes attacked and destroyed them. The Swedes! It doesn't seem to me that France has ever been a powerful nation.
68 posted on 02/06/2003 3:53:12 PM PST by Lauratealeaf
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