Russel Madere wrote: I guess you'd have to define "us". I agreed with the Germans and their auxiliary countrymen, the French when it came to Iraq. Now Bushies might not have agreed with them but I've not been a supporter of Bush since the "Decider" opted to get us involved in Iraq rather than completing our missions of eradicating terrorism and establishing a peaceful secure democracy in Afghanistan.
> It is the culture of political correctness that makes the French look bad to > us. Soldiers, in general and regardless of nationality, are politically > incorrect. For over 170 years the French army has been handicapped by > excessive political intervention. The Legion etrangere had less of such > political intervention. "Political officers" in that unit suffered a higher > KIA percentage than in the French Army. They were also on the sharp end a > lot more often than thier regular army counterparts. > > >> Does the French military really need the "current political leadership >> to make them look bad". I thought they did that well enough on their own. >> >> ref: Why do the French line Paris with Trees? >> >> Russel Madere wrote: >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228138 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
