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   Message 3,923 of 5,647   
   clifford to Montesquiou   
   Re: questions here, answers where?   
   28 Dec 04 16:51:30   
   
   XPost: alt.france   
   From: cliff@thecliffsofinsanityisp.net   
      
   "Montesquiou"  wrote in message   
   news:41d10729$0$29640$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr...   
   >   
   > "rumpelstilskin"  a écrit dans le message de news:   
   > 1t6Ad.1294$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)   
   >   
      
   I suggest you contact the town of yorktown and ask them, or the french   
   embassy, instead of needling people who cant help you with your question.   
      
      
      
   >   
   >   
   >>>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.   
   >>   
   >> <<<<   
   > Do not say that you are not sorry for the help given by Prescott Bu$h to   
   > Hitler. Indeed, The Nazi existed thanks to Bu$h   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >>>   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >> <<<<> germany 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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