XPost: alt.france   
   From: Montesquiou@netcourrier.com   
      
   "rumpelstilskin"  a écrit dans le message de news:   
   1t6Ad.1294$S72.1249@bignews4.bellsouth.net...   
   > john of  aix,   
   > if thats what you want to believe that is quite fine.   
   > But saying   
   > something doesn't make it true.   
   >   
   > And you can't have it both ways.   I still do not know why your country   
   > makes all the graveyards so nice and   
   > pretty if all these these skeletons were just once selfish americain   
   > people storming the coasts of france for their own personal benefit.   
   > Most citizens have not heard any thanks ever; so naturally it would be   
   > nice for them   
   > to hear it once; instead of the constant criticism and the picture of   
   > chirac   
   > doing everything he can to work against us.   
   > And I can't help but wonder what the relatives of these dead soldiers   
   > think   
   > of your statements about bullshit, etc.:e.g::   
   >   
      
   You did'nt answered this question : Where are the French cemetery in USA.   
   (Yorktown - for exemple)   
      
      
      
   >>You didn't make these   
   >> sacrifices for 'us' you made them for yourselves, no one else. The fact   
   >> that you helped liberate France from the Nazis was an aside and   
   >> unavoidable, your aim was to destroy a system, the German National   
   >> Socialist system, which would have destroyed the USA as we know it in   
   >> the end had their power continued to affirm itself. That is the reason   
   >> you joined the war, no other, so don't dream about it.   
   >   
   > <<<<  1.  You can't separate defeating hitler and liberating europe.   
   > 2.   Nobody,  knows what would have happened if usa had not joined the   
   > european theater.....You can't say they would have destroyed the USA,   
   > because no one can say in fact what would have happened.   <<<<<   
   >   
   >>Of course Western   
   >> Europe is happy   
   > <<<<<   
   >>that the USA, Canada, Britain, New Zealand, Australia   
   >> and various British colonies contributed to the magnificent invasion in   
   >> June 1944 that brought them their freedom directly but we don't owe you   
   >> anything for it, sorry.   
   >   
   > <<<<   
   > In fact it cost Europe a great deal of money,   
   >> not the costs of war, the destruction, the necessary rebuilding, but the   
   >> 'aid' given by the USA which was fact loans, loans so important that   
   >> they have only just been paid back.   
   >   
   >  <<<<< new zealand or canada??<<<<<   
   >   
   >> So forget this bullshit about the USA saving the world, it didn't, it   
   >> just participated in a common effort to do so (mainly on the part of the   
   >> USSR) and made fat profits out of it.   
   >>   
      
      
      
   > <<<< and did not enter the war until hitler attacked them <<<<<<<<   
   >   
   >   
   >   Would you rather that our boys   
   > stayed home in WWII?   
   > .   
   >   
   > but sure go ahead and say we had selfish reasons for sending our young   
   > boys   
   > off to europe to be blown to bits.   
   > all i can say is i am glad my dad is buried here and because of my mom's   
   > situation, he never had to be drafted.     Im glad he didn't end up in the   
   > normandy graveyards.   but some weren't so lucky.   
   >   
   > Rumpel   Stilskin   
   >   
   >   
   > "you cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will   
   > be too late."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson   
   >   
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