John, sometimes I think you read waaaaay too much into things. Course..there's talk on the Peugeot list about anti-French sentiment jepordizing Peugeot's rumored re-entry into the US market come 2004- 2005.
Myself, I'm waiting patiently for metrication and a 206 GTi. <grin> Brian 89 Peugeot 405 Mi16 And why didn't anyone answer my 30 year anniversary Metric Conversion Act email? At Wednesday, 19 February 2003, "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2003-02-19 > >If this anti-French attitude spreads to far, it is really >going to harm any chance, what little there is, of the US making any progress >towards metrication. Despite the fact that SI is an international system, >to most Americans it is either just a French or European system. > >John > > >Sent: Wednesday, 2003-02-19 08:25 >Subject: Fw: hope all is well.... read this one to the >end.....lol > > > > >Friends and Colleagues:> > > >> > >> > Letter below is GREAT.> > > >> > > > >Be sure to read ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM!!> > > >> > >> > Dear Dad:> > > > 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 in> > >> > Iraq. 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 [again] at some> > >> > point in the near future anyway. I also told him> > > >> that is why France is a> > > > third-rate military power >with a socialist economy> > > > and a bunch of pansies> >> > > for soldiers. I additionally told him that America,> > >> > being a nation of> > > > deeds and action, not words, >would do whatev er it> > > > had to do, and France's> >> > > support, if it ever came, was only for show anyway.> > >> > Just like in ALL NATO> > > > exercises, the US would >shoulder 85% of the burden,> > > > and provide 85% of >the> > > > support, as evidenced by the fact that this >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 whip his ass in> > > > front of >the entire> > > > Multinational 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?> > > > Dad, tell Mom I love her,> > > >>> > > > Your loving daughter,> > > > Mary >Beth Johnson> > > > LtCol., USMC > >
