A message to the French
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[quote author=SFtopSGT link=board=10;threadid=11491;start=0#109165 date=1046230424]<br>A message from US Veterans to the French<br>[/quote]<br><br>Subject: Marines at Work<br>An actual letter from home from a Marine<br>with the multinational force in Bosnia:<br><br>Dear Dad,<br><br>A funny thing happened to me yesterday at<br>Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia):<br>A French army officer walked up to me in<br>the PX, and told me he thought we<br>(Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and<br>were going to provoke a war in<br>Iraq.<br>He said if such a thing happens, we<br>wouldn't be able to count on the<br>support of France.<br><br>I told him that it didn't surprise me.<br>Since we had come to France's<br>rescue in World War I, World War II,<br>Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude<br>and jealousy was due to surface [again] at<br>some point in the near future<br>anyway.<br><br>I also told him that is why France is a<br>third-rate military power with a socialist economy<br>and a bunch of pansies for soldiers.<br>I additionally told him that America,<br>being a nation of deeds and action,<br>not words, would do whatever it had to do,<br>and France's support, if it<br>ever came, was only for show anyway.<br><br>Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US<br>would shoulder 85% of the burden, and<br>provide 85% of the support, as evidenced<br>by the fact that this French officer was<br>shopping in the American PX, and not<br>the other way around.<br><br>He began to get belligerent at that point,<br>and I told him if he would like<br>to, I would meet him outside in front of<br>the Burger King and whip his ***<br>in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade<br>East, thus demonstrating that even the<br>smallest American had more fight<br>in him than the average Frenchman.<br><br>He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked<br>away in a huff.<br>With friends like these, who needs<br>enemies?<br><br>Dad, tell Mom I love her,<br>Your loving daughter,<br>Mary Beth Johnson<br><br>LtCol., USMC<br>
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Revisionist History:
1777 -- Washington to Lafayette: "Go home. We don't need you."
1778 -- Franklin to Louis XVI, in Paris: "I'm going home. We don't need your money, arms, advisors and troops."
1780 -- Washington to Rochambeau, at the seige lines outside of Yorktown: "Go home. Don't need you. Got Cornwallis licked."
1917 -- Clemenceau to John J. Pershing, CO-AEF, pointing westward across the docks of Cherbourg and the Atlantic, toward America: "Over there! Over there! Go back over there! Yes, you Yanks are going, you Yanks are going. . . back over there!"
1954 -- Navarre to Eisenhower, radio message from Dien Bien Phu: "Keep your troops at home, mon president. We don't need them."
I could go on. . . . :
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1777 -- Washington to Lafayette: "Go home. We don't need you."
1778 -- Franklin to Louis XVI, in Paris: "I'm going home. We don't need your money, arms, advisors and troops."
1780 -- Washington to Rochambeau, at the seige lines outside of Yorktown: "Go home. Don't need you. Got Cornwallis licked."
1917 -- Clemenceau to John J. Pershing, CO-AEF, pointing westward across the docks of Cherbourg and the Atlantic, toward America: "Over there! Over there! Go back over there! Yes, you Yanks are going, you Yanks are going. . . back over there!"
1954 -- Navarre to Eisenhower, radio message from Dien Bien Phu: "Keep your troops at home, mon president. We don't need them."
I could go on. . . . :
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Re:A message to the French
Some great posts. Thanks guys, I really needed that today.
Let's go sic em.
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Re:A message to the French
Heard a caller on Rush the other day, and he had a pretty good idea.<br> Thought we should go ahead and appease Saddam.....<br>......... by giving him France.<br><br>May God bless our troops who are about to put their lives on the line for MY freedom. Thank you.<br><br>Duane.
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