cunt At Saturday, 15 February 2003, you wrote:
>>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 pussies 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 >Multi-National >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 > >___________________________________________________________________ >The D mailing list http://www.djdenise.com/ >Check out the new forum! http://www.djdenise.com/forum/ > "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture..." -Steve Martin ___________________________________________________________________ The D mailing list http://www.djdenise.com/ Check out the new forum! http://www.djdenise.com/forum/
