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AAAHHHAAHAHAHAHA.....RE-ANIMATE? GOOD ONE.....The
idea of turning french fries into freedom fries has about the effect of when
americans boycotted chinese restuarants here when the chinese captured our spy
plane several years back.
So what about all the Americans who think the
french are doing the right thing? Will she want to ship them to france or
belgium?
I am going to pack my bags....When does the
next concorde leave?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 5:58
PM
Subject: A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's
Bill Would Bring the Boys Home
Has she lost her
freaking mind? Did she forget to put her brain back into the top of her
cranium when she took it out last night? What a sick, perverted
political ghoul. She wants to exhume 56,000 bodies from France and
another 13,000 from Belgium to teach them a lesson for not supporting the
Bush killing machine. Have Bush and his administration forgot
that the cemetary in which the dead are buried in France and Belgium
was given to the US by them. What does she plan to do with the
remains? Reanimate them to recite the Pledge of Allegiance 24/7.
Article published
Mar 13, 2003
A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys
Home
By Cory ReissLedger Washington
Bureau
WASHINGTON -- America's relationship with France is about to
hit a new low.
Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, is writing
legislation that would encourage the exhumation and return of American war
dead buried in France and Belgium. She expects to introduce the legislation
today out of frustration with those countries' opposition to a war in
Iraq.
"Many people visit the graves of their parents and grandparents
who served in World War I and World War II and are buried in France and
Belgium," said Brown-Waite, whose district includes a portion of Polk County
north of Interstate 4 between State Road 33 on the east and the Hillsborough
County line on the west. "The question becomes, `Should we continue to support
their eco-nomy when the French government has turned their back on us?'
"
Many Americans are boycotting French wine and cheese for the same
reason. A House Republican leader Tuesday banned the word "French" from the
chamber's cafeteria menus, turning french fries and French toast into freedom
fries and freedom toast.
The culinary censorship has earned laughs from
talk-show audiences, but the mothers of several soldiers killed in combat
groaned at the idea that people might dig up soldiers after so long because of
this feud.
"After all these years -- to me, when a person is buried,
it's sacred ground," said Dorothy Oxendine, president of American Gold Star
Mothers, whose members have lost children in combat. Oxendine's son was killed
in Vietnam in 1968.
Brown-Waite's bill would require the Department of
Defense to exhume and return the bodies on request by a qualified family
member. The soldiers could be buried at a national cemetery or, if the family
wishes, turned over for private burial.
Ken Graham, 65, sparked the
legislation two weeks ago when he approached Brown-Waite at a rally in Florida
and told her he wanted to bring his father home. Melborn Graham was killed
fighting in France in 1944 and buried in Alsace-Lorraine. Graham, who was 7
when the telegram announcing his father's death arrived at their home in
Enterprise, Ala., has never been to the cemetery.
He said he has always
thought it was wrong that Americans were left overseas instead of brought
home. Over the years, he said, French policy has caused his frustration to
mount, boiling over with France's position on Iraq. He said anti-Americanism
has made France an unfit place for American soldiers who fought
there.
"I'm really upset," said Graham, who lives in Hernando County.
"It's just not true that they're buried in an honorable place over
there."
More than 56,000 Americans are buried in France and more than
13,000 in Belgium from both world wars. A frequent complaint about the French
position on Iraq is that the traditional ally has forgotten that America lost
so many lives fighting for France.
Brown-Waite said she didn't know if
many people would ask for the exhumations if her bill were to pass. "But I do
believe we should give them the opportunity. . . . It'll send a loud and clear
message."
A spokeswoman for the French embassy said repatriation of
American soldiers would take this dispute to a far different level than
renaming french fries on Capitol Hill.
"The french fries, it's a joke,"
said Agnes von der Muhll, the embassy spokeswoman. "If the other thing would
happen, it would be very, very sad. We didn't forget. We will never forget
what contribution America made to our peace and security."
Asked
whether she is angry with France, Brown-Waite said, "I am certainly not going
out and buying any French designer clothes, I'll tell you that right now, nor
drinking French wine."
Frank Fogner, a Vietnam veteran from Little
River, S.C., was patrolling the halls of Congress on Wednesday to observe
budget hearings. He said the United States should cut or reduce financial
assistance to any country that opposes the war and denounced France in
particular. Asked whether American soldiers should be exhumed over this, he
shifted his weight uncomfortably.
"There is such a thing as too
extreme," he said.
It's not clear if the government would relocate
bodies if asked without the legislation. Messages left with the American
Battle Monuments Commission, which is in charge of overseas cemeteries, were
not returned.
The American Legion, which supports the Bush
administration's position on Iraq, wouldn't give an opinion about the
bill.
A spokesman would only say: "This is a legislative byproduct of
French and Belgian recalcitrance."
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