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2006-04-18 Europe

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-04-18 10:19|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It is NOT good military bearing to allow your soldiers to run around raping, pillaging, and plundering (unless you serve with John Kerry). Given we had a couple of million troops in Europe I would not be surprised to see a couple of thousand cases of rape. Using a figure of 2 million troops (I am guessing) and 18,000 rapes that leaves us with a .009% rate of criminal behavior. Yes there were bad people but the VAST majority of those who served did so with honor. This is just a leftist example of trying to find bad in everything good. Liberating Europe was a GOOD thing, bad things happened during that liberation, but the final tally was that Europe is no free.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-04-18 11:02|| 2006-04-18 11:02|| Front Page Top

#2 So basically they are saying "Never rescue us again!"

Deal.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2006-04-18 11:19|| 2006-04-18 11:19|| Front Page Top

#3 So basically they are saying "Never rescue us again!"

Nope, what they're saying is : the soldiers who liberated France were muslim (commeration of the Provence landing in 2005, with FLN president bouteflika invited, Algiers being given the medal of the résistance), not the accursed anglo-americans (Vichy term now again in use since GWII), the german soldiers were victims of the nazi regime and France and Germany are friends now (2005 D-day commemoration),... this is rewriting the past to serve present's day anti-americanism, as explained in the text.

But this goes further : Europe's roots are as muslim as they are christian & Spain was originally a muslim country (or so sez Shiraq), WWI was won thanks to muslim troops (Shiraq inaugurated a - big - memorial for muslim soldiers at Verdun recently), the West's present prosperity is due to the work of migrants and to the exploitation of the colonized countries (believe me, THIS has been fully interiorized by the muslim population in Europe), migrants will help replenish our aging populations and pay our retirements (cf that socialist wimman happy in a tv "debate" that 30% of french births come from migrants),...

This is an HEAVY trend. Eurabia.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-04-18 11:38|| 2006-04-18 11:38|| Front Page Top

#4 We have the proof that mass rape never took place. If it had, today's Europeans would be half American, and therefore positive, upbeat, and industrious. They would indeed be a formidable force in business and technology, no doubt leading the world in various endeavors. They would possess a no-nonsence military and administrations who didn't tolerate bombings and riots.
Need more proof than that ?

Posted by wxjames 2006-04-18 12:11|| 2006-04-18 12:11|| Front Page Top

#5 . . . . and the moon is made of green cheese. And non-french green cheese at that!

Posted by Thrise Flasing4235 2006-04-18 13:33|| 2006-04-18 13:33|| Front Page Top

#6 As far as criminals who commited capital crimes in Britain, anyone who has seen "The Dirty Dozen" knows they redeemed themselves on D-Day.

Posted by Penguin 2006-04-18 15:01|| 2006-04-18 15:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Normandy, June 1944. Filmed by the most famous Hollywood directors..., carefully selected by the cinematographic services of the US Army, these images of the American liberators legitimate a fervor long inscribed in the collective memory.

Yeah, the brass at the Pentagon [circa 2000] forgot all that. They didn't want to allocate any of their own resources, like their granddads did in WWII, to do the story telling. Ever see those films with the lead in "Approved by the War Office"? They 'contracted' out the work to MSM. Bites doesn't it? In moving slots from billets to bayonets they cut all the combat photogs. Seems they forgot the class back at the Army War College on Clausewitz - War is an extension of politics. Whether you like it or not, you have to play the game or even if you win all the battles at the front, you can lose the war at home.

Posted by Thaitch Graviling3173 2006-04-18 15:45|| 2006-04-18 15:45|| Front Page Top

#8 I always figured that Grandpa was more like one of the guys in Kelly's Heros.

Posted by Secret Master 2006-04-18 15:48|| 2006-04-18 15:48|| Front Page Top

#9 The real atrocity that occurred in France within days of the Normandy invasion was here. How well they forget these official acts.

Posted by Slavique Elminetle5019 2006-04-18 15:54|| 2006-04-18 15:54|| Front Page Top

#10 The French should try to sell this old whine to the East Germans.

Posted by ed 2006-04-18 16:17|| 2006-04-18 16:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Hope the French never need any help from the US.

Posted by DMFD 2006-04-18 20:10|| 2006-04-18 20:10|| Front Page Top

#12 He was SM.

Posted by 6 2006-04-18 20:28|| 2006-04-18 20:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Once again the Right's 1-2 is undeniably, unconditionally, and absolutely equal or superior to the Left's 8-9 out of 10, ergo the Right and only the Right is the real problem for everyone.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-04-18 21:15|| 2006-04-18 21:15|| Front Page Top

#14 Ergo, Joe nails it once again!

Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-04-18 23:36|| 2006-04-18 23:36|| Front Page Top

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