The Mighty French Un Force

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite

It's us, the British ... and some of their former colonies ... and the Israelis ... who stand between civilization and savagery. Literally.

The Euroweenies and Eurotrash are totally useless ... living on delusions of past glories that really never were.

It's amazing that the feeble-minded can only use their hatred of all things and all people not Israeli to help them understand the world.

Israelis + British + U.S. does not a world make.

Where the hell were the Israelis when the "Internaltional Coalition" was formed to mobilize into Iraq?

Hell, there were 50 more Armenians in the Iraq coalition than Israelis.

By the way, there were a total of 50 Armenians in the coalition.

You do the rest of the math, if you're not too feeble to do it.

Originally Posted by SentToStud

It's amazing that the feeble-minded can only use their hatred of all things and all people not Israeli to help them understand the world.

Israelis + British + U.S. does not a world make.

Where the hell were the Israelis when the "Internaltional Coalition" was formed to mobilize into Iraq?

Hell, there were 50 more Armenians in the Iraq coalition than Israelis.

By the way, there were a total of 50 Armenians in the coalition.

You do the rest of the math, if you're not too feeble to do it.

If I remember correctly, the Israelis were requested to stay out of the Iraq affair..

Ez

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by ezrabrooks

If I remember correctly, the Israelis were requested to stay out of the Iraq affair..

Ez

lol, the conversation went like this:

Israel: we don't want to go into Iraq.

U.S: Well, will you stay away then?

Israel: Yes. Thank you.

Originally Posted by SentToStud

lol, the conversation went like this:

Israel: we don't want to go into Iraq.

U.S: Well, will you stay away then?

Israel: Yes. Thank you.

I doubt that happened. At the time, Iraq was dropping Scuds into Israel, and they were ready to go... once again, to defend themselves.

Ez

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by ezrabrooks

I doubt that happened. At the time, Iraq was dropping Scuds into Israel, and they were ready to go... once again, to defend themselves.

Ez

even more reasonable justification for the Izzys to want to participate in the Caolition. "Fight them where they are," and all that stuff. You may buy it, but I don't. Just a difference of opinion, I suppose.

[GenuineRisk]

Good editorial on France's waffling; I don't think anyone who's posted so far will disagree (other than BB, because though he won't read it because it's in the NYTimes it won't stop him from criticizing what he imagined it said. )

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/op...=1&oref=slogin

I think the French are being a royal pain in the neck over this, but can we stop the moldy old "If not for us they'd be speaking German!" line of "cowardly French" bashing? Yes, and if not for the French, we'd be singing "God Save the Queen." So it's all relative, depending on how far back in history you're willing to go. And we didn't go in to WW2 to save the French; we went in because we were attacked ourselves and they didn't go into the colonies on our side because they believed in self-determination; they went in to f*ck over the British. Can we keep the argument focused on what they're screwing up now, and not what they screwed up 50 years ago, please? Because I appreciate reading everyone's points of view; this whole mess is so complicated I don't know what to think or believe anymore...

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

And we didn't go in to WW2 to save the French; we went in because we were attacked ourselves ...

But ... but ... but ... but ...

... what about the fashionable leftist canard that "Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11"?

Yup ... and Hitler had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor ... so ... should we have not gone to war against Germany?

Huh? Huh? Huh?

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

And we didn't go in to WW2 to save the French; we went in because we were attacked ourselves ...

And ... does the same logic apply to Israel going to war because it was attacked?

Huh? Huh? Huh?

Sheesh ... see the trouble you get into when you try to defend the indefensible frogs?

The New York Times and the French ...

... the reprehensible supporting the indefensible.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Good editorial on France's waffling; I don't think anyone who's posted so far will disagree (other than BB, because though he won't read it because it's in the NYTimes it won't stop him from criticizing what he imagined it said. )

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/op...=1&oref=slogin

I think the French are being a royal pain in the neck over this, but can we stop the moldy old "If not for us they'd be speaking German!" line of "cowardly French" bashing? Yes, and if not for the French, we'd be singing "God Save the Queen." So it's all relative, depending on how far back in history you're willing to go. And we didn't go in to WW2 to save the French; we went in because we were attacked ourselves and they didn't go into the colonies on our side because they believed in self-determination; they went in to f*ck over the British. Can we keep the argument focused on what they're screwing up now, and not what they screwed up 50 years ago, please? Because I appreciate reading everyone's points of view; this whole mess is so complicated I don't know what to think or believe anymore...

we saved frenchy butt in both world wars, and they were the ones who started all that mess known as vietnam....not that it has anything to do with NOW....but it's still fun to poke at them about it all.

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by Dixie Porter

Not a "difference of opinion" at all your'e just an ignorant Arab a**hole. The Israeli Govt. took unbearable heat from the IDF and it's citizens for not knocking off Iraq. They stayed out of it at the request of the US so as not to destabilize the coalition (presumably the Arab states).

Well, great to see you've taken your daily dose of hatred medication today.

Kach Kahane and Chai must be terribly proud of you.

Leave it to the Israelis to let the Armenians and others do their heavy lifting.

Originally Posted by SentToStud

Where the hell were the Israelis when the "Internaltional Coalition" was formed to mobilize into Iraq?

Hell, there were 50 more Armenians in the Iraq coalition than Israelis.

STS with all due respect that would have been insane political suicide. You have to remember Iraq actually fired Scud missles into Israel to draw them into the war to get the rest of the Arab world behind them. What did we tell the Israeli's ? Bite your tongue and dont fight back. And you know what the Israelis did... All got their gas masks on because no one knew for sure what the Scuds were carrying. And sat there and took it.

I dare anyone to present a situation in which a country purposely fires missles into the US without our even being in the conflict and see how long we bite our tongues... For God sake there is no way we would show the restraint Israel has.