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Britain and Germany yesterday announced new arrests of suspected al Qaeda members who may be plotting new attacks to capitalize on the Iraq crisis.

B-- b-- bu-- but I thought those countries were supposed to be filled with Surrender Monkeys who don't give a damn about stopping these people! And that we were to rename French Fries at all fast-food outlets! And call sauerkraut Liberty Cabbage! And demolish that silly green statue that the French bastards insisted on putting in New York harbor!

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So, is their assistance to be disdained? You don't sign on to The Great Crusade, then (per, say, John Podhoretz of the "New York Post") your help in any other respect is not wanted, and you are to be subjected to insults?

Hookay, Paris and Berlin, let 'em go.

Whoops, that was Britain (along with Germany), not the French, as well. Still, I'm tired of all this pissing on the French. Anyway, a good moment to change my tagline.

And to mention my late uncle, one-half German, Col. R.O. Mitterling (USAF, Ret.), whom the U.S. Army Air Corps turned down in 1939 due to his surname. Flew 25 Spitfire missions for the ungrateful Brits in the Royal Air Force.

And my other late uncle, one-half German, Lt. E.S. Mitterling (USA), who defended French soil and his American buddies -- those who weren't riddled with Panzer artillery fire -- in the Battle of the Bulge, and nearly died in it.

Stop the dumping on the Germans and the French. The best among them may have come here -- and are tired of the pissing contest going on -- but those that were left weren't slouches, either. Nor are they now, their pusillanimous leaders (who know neither hot nor cold) notwithstanding.

"So, is their assistance to be disdained? You don't sign on to The Great Crusade, then (per, say, John Podhoretz of the "New York Post") your help in any other respect is not wanted, and you are to be subjected to insults?"

WHAT "assistance"? Arresting Al-Queada members on their own soil has zip to do with supporting the US--its a hypocritical action protecting their own citizens, not supporting the US in protecting "its" citizens.

"Stop the dumping on the Germans and the French. The best among them may have come here -- and are tired of the pissing contest going on -- but those that were left weren't slouches, either. Nor are they now, their pusillanimous leaders (who know neither hot nor cold) notwithstanding."

Horse manure. Those immigrants are AMERICANS, not French or German. As to those who are still in the "Vaterland", I don't note any mass demonstrations SUPPORTING the US. Screw'em.