French Fried or Do You Think We Could Give It Back To The Germans?

Here' s a letter from an angry Frenchman in answer to one bashing the French. Not being a history scholar, I'm not qualified to say if he's right or not on the details, but Mssr. Lechifflart demonstrate that the French still lead the world in arrogance and disdain:

No German boot defiled the soil of the capital during WWI. As far as WWII goes, I remind him that Paris was freed in August 1944, thanks to the rebellion of Parisians and the French Free Forces (Leclercq's 2nd Division Blindee), while U.S. and British forces cautiously stayed away.


Probably they hoped the Germans would deal with the French Resistance fighters, which they never trusted because there were communists among them. This would also explain why they did not send weapons to the Vercors Plateau, which was under control of the partisans, making them unable to resist the massacre of 750 children, men and women of all ages (July 1944, after D-Day).


Yes, even the liberation of France by our friends had its dirty sides.

Since Kimball wants to teach us a history lesson, let him consider that the United States has not had to deal with any foreign invasions for nearly two centuries. Unfortunately, our country did not have that blessing: Russians, Prussians, Austrians and Britons in 1814-1815; Prussians again in 1870-1871; Germans in 1914-1918, and again in 1940-1944.


Every time, the population mourned the loss of soldiers, but also had to endure all the "side effects," such as looting, torture, rape and murder of many civilians.


This is precisely why we are reluctant to agree with any idea of supporting the invasion of another country. Even though many Iraqis hate Saddam Hussein, they are a proud, patriotic nation that will never accept any regime installed by a foreign power, the same way French people had a hard time accepting Petain's government (Hitler's puppet), which, by the way, was granted full recognition by the U.S. government.

[L]et me quote that great leader [Georges Clemenceau]: "Americans are the only people who went from prehistory to decadence without passing through civilization"

This from the land that gave us Joseph Pujol, a.k.a. Le Petomane!

Pretty funny.