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   "Anonymous"  wrote in message   
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   >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. 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. That is why, I said softly, 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   
   > U.S. would shoulder 85% of the burden, as evidenced by the fact that the   
   > 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 beat 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?   
      
   They have a stuffed likeness of you back at Brokebutt Mountain, cowboy.   
      
      
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