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   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , mikejames   
    writes   
   >the_verminator@comcast.net wrote:   
   >   
   >> CJ Buyers wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>pocketnunu@gmail.com wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>Just makes me wonder if he had   
   >>>>some other agenda because it wasn't as though he brought any pressure   
   >>>>to bear on the French to conclude their own investigations.   
   >>>   
   >>>And how often have you found anyone on this planet able to bring   
   >>>"pressure to bear" on any French officials?   
      
   >> I think Nepoleon was the last person that did it. ;)   
   >>   
   >Geez...and I thought it was Hitler :)   
      
   What about Vietnamese forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954?   
   (Admittedly many of the 'French' legionnaires were 'WW2 Germans').   
      
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