The French

[at58]

hahahahaha

[RubyRed]

Originally posted by Dreamacre
A Quandary:

Something to ponder

Who says only the TV networks show re-runs?

[JOEM]

Originally posted by NSCR FAN
The jokes are cute and I enjoy them as much as anyone, but the "French" are not a bad lot. We're all too young to remember, but some of the most fierce fighters in WWII were the French resistance fighters. The army, well, it wasn't much. The current government is typical of the leadership they have had since DeGaul stepped down years ago.

And, they cook good.

Actually, the times I talked to the French officers at the Bosnia operation, they seemed pretty competent and definitely wanted to have more to do. They blamed their government for making them look like a "paper army."

And, the sad truth is that in WWII, most French citizens freely collaborated with the Germans. Only a very small group provided resistance. Much of their work was ruined by French citizens who either would not cooperate or actually turned the Resistance members in to the Nazis. Most "Resistance" operations--successful ones--were performed by non-French guerillas inserted into France by the OSS, or at least had to be augmented by those same guerillas.

And, of course, the French army folded much too soon before the original Nazi invasion--which led to the sorry mess called Dunkirk.

As part of the peace process and to keep tempers sweet in forming the UN, the US and Britian agreed to the official version of the French contribution to the winning of WWII--a version that is largely fiction. Nowadays, as more WWII vintage records become declassified, the truth is coming out...and it ain't pretty.

[CHRUZIN]

One of the more popular posters at Sunday's Rally For America read :

IRAQ -
FRENCH FOR
HOLLYWOOD

http://www.wrva.com/

[PT "Guru"]

This man spent his own money, and went against the King of France to come to our aid.

So, they aren't all bad.

Just quite a few of them................


Early in the year 1780 Lafayette's hard work with the French government resulted in the success of sending French troops to aid Washington and additional needed supplies. So insistent was Lafayette for aid to the Americans that one day Count de Maurepas said in the royal council: "It is fortunate for the King, that Lafayette does not take it into his head to strip Versailles of its furniture, to send to his dear Americans; as his Majesty would be unable to refuse it." In addition to governmental supplies Lafayette purchased our of his private account a large amount of supplies for the troops he would command on his return to America.