SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IN FRANCE

[Boedy]

FRANCE

SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IN FRANCE

March 4, 2003. Today it was reported that a severe earthquakes have
occurred in 10 different locations in France. The severity was measured in
excess of 10 on the Richter Scale. The cause was the 56,681 dead American
soldiers buried in French soil rolling over in their graves. According to
the American Battle Monuments Commission there are 26,255 Yankee dead from
World War I buried in 4 cemeteries in France. There are 30,426 American dead
from World War II buried in 6 cemeteries in France. These 56,681 brave
American heroes died in their youth to liberate a country which is guilty of
shameful unspeakable behavior in the 21st century. May the United States of
America never forget their sacrifice as we find ways to forcefully deal with
the Godforsaken unappreciative, forgetful country of France!

[24 on/ 48 off]

Maybe we should give them back the Statue of Liberty.

--spud-- :smile:

[corkyking]

After numerous conferences the French government decided to give the French troops to the command of Count de Rochambeau and Lafayette would be expected to command the American division according to the plans of Washington. Special instructions were given Rochambeau under date March 1, 1780, from Versailles: "His Majesty, having determined to send a considerable body of troops to American, to the assistance of his allies, the United States, has appointed Count de Rochambeau, one of his lieutenant-generals, to the chief command of the twelve battalions of infantry, which are to be commanded under his orders by four major-generals. This corps, which his Majesty has furnished with its proper complement of artillery for sieges and service in the field, is to be in readiness to start from Brest in the first days of April, under the escort of a squadron of six ships of the line, commanded by the Chevalier de Ternay

Mr Chirac you ain't no Lafayette

[Snapset]

I would be careful about invoking the memory of the war-dead in support of a new war. We can't know how they would feel.