BernardR wrote:But, the French tradition of stupidity and cowardice continues. The French at first announced that they would take the lead in sending a couple of thousand troops to Lebanon to keep the peace. NOW, they are down to 400--Cowardly, disorganized and untrustworthy!!!!
Thursday, August 24, 2006; Posted: 2:29 p.m. EDT (18:29 GMT)
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- France is ready to send an extra 1,600 troops to bolster a revamped United Nations force for Lebanon, President Jacques Chirac said on Thursday, bringing the total French contingent to 2,000.
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Francis_ I must TEMPORARILY withdraw my criticism of the French. If it is TRUE that they will send an additional 1,700 hundred troops to Lebanon, then they are acting like men instead of the cowards they have always shown themselves to be.
However, if the FRENCH troops HIDE if Hezbollah continues to launch Missles to hit Israeli soil, I will renew my disdain for them.
If, on the other hand, the French troops STOP Hezbollah's murderous attacks on Israel, I WILL BE THE FIRST TO PRAISE THEM>
We shall see!!!!
You truly are fickle, ain't ya
BernardR, it is my opinion that you are quite bigoted when it comes to the French.
Why is that?
As a child, were you harmed or frightened by someone smelling of good quality cheese?
No,Lord Ellpus. I like good cheese. You are British, are you not? Then I am sure that you have access to the writings of Sir Winston Churchill. Please be so good as to read his commentary when he discovered that the completely disorganized cowardly French had, in violation of ALL GOOD MILITARY PROCEDURES, NO TROOPS IN RESERVE WHEN THE GERMANS BROKE THROUGH IN THE SEDAN>
Of course, as a Briton, you may have better sources than I have. If so, I would be happy to hear of them!!!
BernardR, the barbed wire was removed from the beaches of Europe over 60 years ago, before I was a chromosome on it's way to becoming a sperm.
As far as the average modern day French soldier is concerned, I would say that he/she is just as brave as a modern day American soldier, but is superior when it comes to defusing sticky situations at the sharp end of a conflict zone.
The French have a vastly superior understanding of the Middle East, and if we had listened to them, we would not have gone into Iraq in such a fashion, and our respective countries would not have lost so many of our young.
As far as their POLITICIANS are concerned, I do not like them at all, but would prefer to be ruled by them, than your present administration.
Europe has moved on. We now have electricity, running water and indoor toilets.
The French are not considered cowards by Europeans, and they live right next door to us, so we would probably have more of an up to date working knowledge of them than someone who lives thousands of miles away and watches Fox News whilst eating freedom fries.
Lord Ellpus wrote:
Europe has moved on. We now have electricity, running water and indoor toilets.
No way......I thought you looked a bit spiffier this week.
What Italgato/Massagato/Chiczaria/Mortkat/Bernard knows about history in general, nevermind French history, would not fill a very small thimble. His opinionated, uninformed, bigotry, however, would easily fill the holds of a dozen large aircraft carriers.
BernardR wrote:No,Lord Ellpus. I like good cheese. You are British, are you not? Then I am sure that you have access to the writings of Sir Winston Churchill. Please be so good as to read his commentary when he discovered that the completely disorganized cowardly French had, in violation of ALL GOOD MILITARY PROCEDURES, NO TROOPS IN RESERVE WHEN THE GERMANS BROKE THROUGH IN THE SEDAN>
Of course, as a Briton, you may have better sources than I have. If so, I would be happy to hear of them!!!
In THE SEDAN????
Good lord...perhaps Fartbubble is correct.
I had always been under the impression that the germans used tanks and such....but ONE little car?
Merde!
It was actually a Maybach, deb.
Bella Dea wrote:Lord Ellpus wrote:
Europe has moved on. We now have electricity, running water and indoor toilets.
No way......I thought you looked a bit spiffier this week.
I have buffed myself thoroughly every morning for the past seven days, Bella.
How nice of you to notice my shiny parts.
This is an example of what i mean. The Prussian defeated the Emperor Napoleon III at Sedan in 1870. When the Germans broke through in Belgium in 1940, they were nowhere near Sedan. Possum shows his ass once again.
Honecker tried it with a Trabant, but that didnt quite work.
I tried it in a Mini once. That didn't work out, either.
You should have waited until it was owned by BMW!
You guys are just talkin trash, and makin' **** up . . . obviously, the Germans broke through by using the cattle-pult . . .
Over the May-bach, what I said.
i distinctly remember the battle of skoda though. fierce. i could hardly volga out who was with whom, half the time it seemed like a dacia-vu. the czechs got a bad rap for cowardice, but dont lada'm confuse you; they wanted to fight too, but the polish didnt give their fiat.
