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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 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 faggots 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 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 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?

Tell Mom I love her,

Your loving daughter
Mary Beth Johnson LtCol, USMC

Shinova wrote:Some people say that France is acting like how they are right now cause they were a major power in old days and they still want to feel important and want others to think they're important too. So they talk tough, holding on to that golden age-like figment of memory from long ago when they were one of the top nations of the world.

Time's left them behind in the dust. They're some pretty sore losers. Can't just admit that they're no longer as important as they had been long ago.

Gandalf wrote: I think Europe itself is becoming like a un-needed, the power nowadays is in US, Asia, and the Mid East.

Pity really, I'd think of all people, the Europeans now know best not to go to war.

Hey Thirdfain, how does one play "Bloody Knuckles"?

Colonel Olrik wrote:Since Europe has commited suicide twice in the last century, it's only natural that we're more weary of the war than the U.S, a country which survived the same century without a fight in its soil.

GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:Anyone who buys that can go watch a replay of the last Celebrity Boxing, where fat middle-aged (but large) Joey Buttafuco threw the damn-buff-for-a-chick Chyna around like a rag doll.

Thirdfain wrote:

Hey Thirdfain, how does one play "Bloody Knuckles"?

You um, punch your opponent in the knuckles. Then they punch you in the knuckles. Again and again. First to capitulate looses. It is really stupid

Enlightenment wrote:AFIAK that letter is an urban legend.

NF_Utvol wrote:A professor of mine told me this the other day:

You need France in a war just like you need an accordian deer hunting, just extra baggage to haul around and it is more likely to hurt than help.

(mind you, this was in his VERY heavy eastern european accent, which made it very funny)

IG-88E wrote:I got this in the email earlier today and it got a chuckle out of me.

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 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 faggots 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 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 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?

Tell Mom I love her,

Your loving daughter
Mary Beth Johnson LtCol, USMC

Trytostaydead wrote:The french are pussies.. that you eat.

In all seriousness though, I still think the French should still get a little consideration from the US. Outside of the fact that they have some very fine looking ladies, they DID help us a LOT in our war for independence. And while some might argue that was waaaay long ago, the world shouldn't work as checks and balances. It just goes to show that America, unlike its allies, does NOT FORGET.