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French weren't cowards (REALLY BIG LAUGH ALERT)
Chicago Sun-Times ^
| February 6, 2003
| Pan Demetrakakes
Posted on 02/06/2003 7:18:18 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: ffusco
I know a lot of Frenchmen died during WW2, most of them were Jews, Gays, cripples, and other undesireables, a few of them were soldiers since they had surrendered so quickly. You have any documentation, or are you just yelping along with your pack of cretins? Why don't you check with Hodar and learn some real history, instead of what "everybody knows"?
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posted on
02/06/2003 9:27:21 PM PST
by
Romulus
To: Stefan Stackhouse
At the time, Europe believed in appeasement. This is why the conquest of Poland by Germany was tolerated. And yes, history is repeating itself.
VISUALIZE WORLD APPEASEMENT
"Peace in our lifetime"
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posted on
02/06/2003 9:40:55 PM PST
by
weegee
To: Rebelbase
Let me guess. The red and blue stripes are held on with velcro so it can easily be turned into a white flag.
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posted on
02/06/2003 9:45:43 PM PST
by
weegee
To: Chi-townChief
France's critics need to be aware of some historical facts. At the beginning of World War II, Germany possessed the world's most powerful army, The fool needs to check his historical facts.
At the beginning of World War II, France not Germany possessed the world's most powerful army,
The French on paper has the strongest Army in the world at the time
. The French did nothing when the Germanys reoccupied the Rhineland in violation of treaty with France
The new Germany Army was nothing at the time
The French (and England) did nothing when the Germanys occupied the Czechoslovakia Sudetenland and then occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia
The French (and England) did finally declare war when the Germanys invaded Poland but the French Army sat on the German border and did nothing (a time they called the phony war)
And all this time above the French military was the most powerful in Europe but they did nothing and the Germans military built up
The German High Command did not think they would be able to equal the French Army till 1944 .. They though Hitler was insane to attack France in 1940 but Hitler felt the French had no backbone and would fold
The historic fact is the French on paper has the strongest Army in the world at the time
and lost there country in weeks because they would not stand up to a petty dictator till it was to late
.... history repeats itself.
To: Chi-townChief
This idiot doesn't know that the French had more men and way more (and better) tanks than the Germans in 1940.
To: facedown
Greetings facedown, FReepers, et al:
Warez the brae-nibbling primate, waving the French mono-color ensign; the photo we love so well?
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posted on
02/06/2003 11:10:57 PM PST
by
OneLoyalAmerican
(This UN charade has gone on long enough. It's time to liberate the Iraqi people.)
To: tophat9000
Hitler felt the French had no backbone and would fold
like a cheap suit Just like the one they're wearing today.
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posted on
02/06/2003 11:14:59 PM PST
by
smug
(peace is just a critical mass away)
To: OneLoyalAmerican
I think we should also liberate the people of nyc. from the U.N. . Maybe we would all be better off if they moved to Paris.
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posted on
02/06/2003 11:27:28 PM PST
by
smug
(peace is just a critical mass away)
To: John H K
So? The large and well-equiped Czechoslovak army surrendered without firing a shot, and you fault the French for surrendering after fighting only six weeks?
To: Chi-townChief
Well, at least France has a stronger miltary than Greenpeace.
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posted on
02/07/2003 12:46:35 AM PST
by
Roscoe
To: altayann
A revolution that was based largely on the American revolution, as I recall. You know, liberty and all that stuff. You recall incorrectly. That the US War of Independence was the spiritual and intellectual forebear of France's blood-drenched leftist festival is a myth that has been propagated well, along with the whitewashing of the behavior of the various French factions that ruled after the Revolution. If you are sincerely interested in the topic, I highly recommend Erich von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's masterful "Leftism Revisited", a work which examines the intellectual roots of Leftism and their modern expressions (from Hitler to Pol Pot), and does away quite handily with such harmful legends.
To: ExpandNATO
The French didn't help us for any other reason than to tweak John Bull. It took years of badgering on the part of Franklin, Adams and Jefferson before the French, who were constantly demanding massive bribes from the nearly broke fledgling country, finally consented to aid the Revolution.
Individuals such as Lafayette and his corps of volunteers had to slip out of France to get here and fight. Lafayette adored Washington and the idea behind our Revolution, but refused to take part in the French Revolution (He was, after all, the Marquis De'Lafayette) and almost lost his own head to the mob.
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:12:40 AM PST
by
metesky
(My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
To: Romulus
And that weary old joke, "rifle for sale, never fired, dropped once" was origially told about the Italian army.
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:28:49 AM PST
by
metesky
(My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
To: weegee
This is why the conquest of Poland by Germany was tolerated.????
Both Great Britain and France lived up to their treaty obligations and declared war on Germany when the Hun invaded Poland.
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:42:33 AM PST
by
metesky
(My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
To: tophat9000
the phony war = sitzkreig
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:44:02 AM PST
by
metesky
(My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
To: Chi-townChief
At the very least, they should thank their lucky stars they didn't have to face the Wehrmacht in 1940. We faced the Luftwaffe in 1940. And we faced the Afrika Corps, run by one of Germany's most brilliant generals. However, we fought, and won. France had gotten into a rut, thinking that surrender was better than any war and paid the price. What is infuriating is the numbers of Frenchmen who still adhere to that philosophy.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/07/2003 4:47:00 AM PST
by
MadIvan
To: metesky
(He was, after all, the Marquis De'Lafayette) and almost lost his own head to the mob. Despite being an aristo, Lafayette was politically untouchable. Having backed American independence, Lafayette found himself a Certified Friend of Liberty, a status that served him well when the jacobin mobs started baying for blood.
Nice to see that, for once, a good deed did go unpunished.
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posted on
02/07/2003 6:56:20 AM PST
by
Romulus
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To: Roscoe
So do Malta, Monaco and the Vatican City. LOL. :)
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