To our Comrades in Harms Way

[savageT]

God, I love this!!!   Enjoy!!!!
savageT
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> >
> > Subject: Semper Fidelis
> >
> >
> > From a Marine in Bosnia.  Note the signature, but read it last.
> >
> > A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia): A
> > French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we
> > (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war.  He
> > said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support
> > of France.
> >
> > I told him that it didn't surprise me.  Since we had come to France's
> > rescue in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their
> > ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface at some point in the near
> > future anyway.
> > That is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist
> > economy and a bunch of faggots for soldiers.
> >
> > I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and action,
> > not words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support was only
> > for show anyway.  Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder
> > 85% of the burden, as evidenced by the fact that the French officer was
> > shopping in the American PX, and not the other way around.
> >
> > He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would
> > like to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and beat
> > his ass in front of the entire Multinational Brigade East, thus
> > demonstrating that even the smallest American had more fight in him than
> > the average Frenchman.
> > He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff.
> >
> > With friends like these, who needs enemies?
> >
> > Mary Beth Johnson LtCol, USMC

[.45 COLT]

The French have been irrelevent since Dien Bien Phu. The have been obnoxious far longer than that.

[Mikey]

SavageT, BigBill and 45Colt - Right on.  45, your comment about the French being irrelevant since Dien Bien Phu is just so incredibly accurate.  I recall all those French expatriates sipping their coffee or liquers in the Saigon hotels and pizzin' all over us whenever we would get hit hard.  The truth is though and you are so right, that they are irrelevant.  What else do they have to do.

Their water is no good.  Their wine is bitter.  They can't cook chickuns to save their bass, even in Brest.  They can't design an effective defensive perimeter, they can't shoot, they don't speak English, they don't bathe, their womens smell like a Sasquatch, they make funny lookin' guns in weird calibers, their cars are funny looking and they are like perpetual little brothers.  If they didn't do it themselves the first time they always either pizz all over you or want what you've got.  I think we've been too kind to them.  Let's taunt their ancestry.  This be Mikey.