Canada's response to Katrina:

@haxorboy:

http://www.ambafrance-us.org/news/statmnts/2000/ww2/index.asp

That took two seconds to look up on google and I am sure there are many more, but since they are not noteworthy I guess you don’t recognize them.

Remember we landed forces in France as Germany had rolled all the way over to the coast? If we don’t get involved Germany has alot more reasources available to work on the Eastern front. The US was not the only force present but if D-Day never happened and we never secured a way to get aground for the rest of the countries with that many troops, Russia falls sweety. To re-enforce this, and I apologize for using liberal media source:

http://www.486th.org/Photos/Misc/stats.htm

You figure we had probably 40% of our total troop count on the ground in Europe, so that is like what, 6 and a half million troops. Plus without the Normandy landing ( and I am not discrediting any nation here ) I dont’ think the pooled resources of the rest of the allied nations could have secured that or any other coastal landing point to begin a staging area.

I’m not argueing that the US forces had no hand in stopping Hitler. I’m saying that they were not needed for a victory, only to speed up the victory already fated to occur.

For instance, if Russia had not been involved but had remained neutral, do you think the British and Americans would have won world war 2? Not a matter of delayed victory, I’m talking victory at all.

Also, at the time of D-Day, I believe you yankees and limeys already had a European beach head called Italy. You could have invaded up from there instead of adding another beach head in France. AKA you did’nt NEED normandy, you WANTED normandy and it cost you a lot more lives then many other engagements have cost you in past, present and possibly future engagements.

I believe you yankees and limeys

So are you suddenly a Russian again?

@Jennifer:

The government, on the other hand, never - to my knowledge, though maybe it was so trivial it wasn’t recorded anywhere - thanked us for liberating and restoring them. Nor did their infamous leader ever once show anything but hostility to Eisenhower and Churchill, again to my knowledge from books, documentaries and actual live footage shown to me.

It is funny that you also complained about selective memory.

I have looked around and found a nice webpage. Maybe you (US’ans) are not as bad as i thought (i looked around the page and saw some things where i judged your behavior from my german attitude and based my negative picture on this judgement) :

http://www.understandfrance.org/index.html

just be assured: the world is so “anti-american” that you really should start thinking what the billions of people do wrong that they can’t understand you.

@Mr:

Later we sent hundreds of thousands of American boys to die on their soil so they could be free from the Germans and we did it twice. Never received so much as a thank you note

If you had ever seen footage from WW2 of the liberation of Paris, you’d know exactly how much crap this is. Nothing but verbal diarreah.

That was right after the liberation. It didn’t even take a decade for Degaul to start being a horse’s ass. In recent years, they have found our cemetary over there desectated with feces.

@Mr:

After all, who, exactly, was it that invaded Berlin? Oh yea! Stalin’s forces, that’s right. Who fought the German’s single handedly on his front? Oh yea, Stalin did! Who needed 3 countries to hold the Germans at bay long enough for Russia to win the war? Oh yea, France Brition and America….you see where I’m going with this right?

More crap. The allies agreed to let Stalin’s Russia take Berlin. Who was it that sent a massive amount of food, weapons and equipment to Russia so they could lay the hammer down on the Germans? oh ya the Allies.
I see where you going with this……right down the crapper.

Sure, lend lease helped. But not so much as is illustrated in our history books. I have never, ever seen a picture of Russians using one of our shermans even though we sent 1000s to them. Why? Because the sherman was a piece of crap compared to a t34, and less than crap when compared to a tiger or panther tank. Same was true with a lot of equipment we sent to them (not so much the aircraft). And don’t forget, at the pivotal year of the war (42) lend lease convoys were being decimated by U-boats.

I think the Germans could have pulled it off if they only had to fight the Russians. There were 300,000 German troops in Norway alone that could have done wonders on the Russian front (imagine 300k troops defending the flanks at stalingrad instead of the crappy Rumanian troops that were there). But Jen is def right that the Russians did most of the fighting and dying. At the end of the war 8 out of 10 Germans killed were killed on the eastern front.

That was right after the liberation. It didn’t even take a decade for Degaul to start being a horse’s a**. In recent years, they have found our cemetary over there desectated with feces.

I saw a bum take a piss all over the place right outside the Ellipse, should we go to war here with the homeless people? Besides with people like you over here screaming “screw the French” every chance you get I wonder why they hate us and would do things like that.

@Jennifer:

@haxorboy:

I’m with Zooey…tear down the Statue of Liberty, raise the walls and let the world fend for itself man, cuz it’s not our problem.

:roll:

Raise the walls and shoot anyone trying to get in. I like the statue, it’s the only thing the French have ever given us outside of grief, death and war.

Well, look at it this way. All of the help we are getting from other countries probably does not add up to a 1/10 of what we have spent on Aid to other countries. Do I live in the devestated area? No, but I bet the 10 billion good ole bush spent in Africa for aids could have built some levies or even refineries don’t you? Or been a great deal of help as far as aid to the people now.

I am talking about a matter of policy. I care very little for this “world community” BS. We should take care of our own, and other countries should take care of thier own. In the end, we would be much better off. True allies I have no problem helping. But sending $ in aid to the middle east? Unless it is Isreal or Kuwait, not one dime. The vast majority of these people hate us, and we owe them nothing.

@haxorboy:

That was right after the liberation. It didn’t even take a decade for Degaul to start being a horse’s a**. In recent years, they have found our cemetary over there desectated with feces.

I saw a bum take a piss all over the place right outside the Ellipse, should we go to war here with the homeless people? Besides with people like you over here screaming “screw the French” every chance you get I wonder why they hate us and would do things like that.

Be nice if that was just a case study, but it’s not. A poll before the invasion of Iraq done in france showed that 1/3 of the country wanted us to lose the war. Not just “don’t attack”, actualy lose to the benevolant dictator Saddam. Agree or disagree with the war, that is ok. But 1/3 of the population was rooting for Saddam. That is truly screwed up.

Are you suggesting that the french were very pro american before the Iraq war? I won’t even bring out the list of crap they have done. I am sure you know it. And btw, no one in Eurupe likes the French. Its not just us.

And if you want to be specific on French complaceny (and the world for that matter) just look at WW2 and how they let Hitler run away with with murder b4 1939. The war could have been avoided when Hitler made his first move. Hugely unpopular to the rest of the world (US included) but it would have been the right thing to do. The world sides against us, yep. They don’t like our policies. But Chamberlain would have gone down in history as being a Hawk if he stopped hitler from the get go. I am sure the main stay of scholars would have said he should of negotiated and not start a war. If he had declared war, it would have either been settled in a few months (because germany was not strong when he had a chance to act) or Germany would have retreated like a dog with its tail between its legs. But historians would have remembered him as the man who started a war that killed thousands. Now he is remembered as the man who did nothing and let 10s of millions die.

You can’t prove a negative. We will never know if Bush’s plan is a good one. Maybe if he did things differently we would have world peace or something to that effect. But maybe if his policies were not followed than we would of had 10 more 911s now.

@cystic:

@Zooey72:

@haxorboy:

That was right after the liberation. It didn’t even take a decade for Degaul to start being a horse’s a**. In recent years, they have found our cemetary over there desectated with feces.

I saw a bum take a piss all over the place right outside the Ellipse, should we go to war here with the homeless people? Besides with people like you over here screaming “screw the French” every chance you get I wonder why they hate us and would do things like that.

Be nice if that was just a case study, but it’s not. A poll before the invasion of Iraq done in france showed that 1/3 of the country wanted us to lose the war. Not just “don’t attack”, actualy lose to the benevolant dictator Saddam. Agree or disagree with the war, that is ok. But 1/3 of the population was rooting for Saddam. That is truly screwed up.

not if you consider that they are not Americans, that they heard the things that Americans were saying about them for not participating in the war, and that they (and much of the world) sees Bush in the same light as SH. Furthermore - much right-wing US rhetoric sounds very much like fanatical AQ rhetoric to anyone outside of the US.

For me - i didn’t care if the US won or lost - i just didn’t want to see civilians getting killed and the country getting terrorized.

I wanted to add. People die in war. Civilian and military. More civilains died in WW2 than soldiers. Is that the condition you place on declaring a war? That there be no civilian loss of life? It does not work that way. We did not want to be in the middle east because of the problems we are having with Iraq now. If we wanted to be in Iraq we could of done it in 91. It was just a hop skip and a jump to baghdad. The situation sucks, I will not argue that point at all. You’re right.

But the right thing to do is not always (actualy seldomly) the easy thing to do. Should the rev. war not have been fought because our civilians died?

It is harsh, but you need to break eggs to make an omlet. I am sure if I was one of the eggs being broken my opinion would be different. But there is a greater good.

To teh “anti americanism”: …
it seems like the common opinion here is that the anti-american sentiments of the world are there only because we are envious because you are richand powerful.

So, you show anti-french sentiments here. I suppose you are only envious because they have civilisation and culture.

Must be it.

@cystic:

@haxorboy:

I believe you yankees and limeys

So are you suddenly a Russian again?

you forgot about us canucks.

I didn’t forget about the Canucks. It’s just the two big names of un-conquered allied nations (western) in the war were America and Brition. Of course there were french terrorists and Canadian soldiers, etc. Didn’t mean to diminish their contribution.

@F_alk:

To teh “anti americanism”: …
it seems like the common opinion here is that the anti-american sentiments of the world are there only because we are envious because you are richand powerful.

So, you show anti-french sentiments here. I suppose you are only envious because they have civilisation and culture.

Must be it.

No, I’ve always been anti-French because they allowed an evil dictator to run their country instead of fighting to the last man.

At least Poland was actually conquered.

Then, top it off with the typical French attitude towards the English speaking world in general, and you begin to wonder why, exactly, we didn’t let the German’s keep the French?

My anti- German attitude’s been derived by your attitude of Americans. However, my brother is living there now and is telling me that many German’s are very glad America is doing what they are doing. So you must be in the minority. (He’s in Hamburg, in case you wonder. His wife’s being paid buukuu bucks for her knowledge on oil, though, don’t ask me the details, it’s got something to do with ultra high level mathematics and biochemistry.)

@F_alk:

To teh “anti americanism”: …
it seems like the common opinion here is that the anti-american sentiments of the world are there only because we are envious because you are richand powerful.

So, you show anti-french sentiments here. I suppose you are only envious because they have civilisation and culture.

Must be it.

That sounds like a huge line of BS, sorry. There are many different cultures in the world, why exactly do the French get to claim civilisation and culture? You slipped right there, you just advocated the myth that because they are “civilized” (and I am guessing that means they drink thier coffee in nice little coffee houses). Talk about misplaced sentimental hogwash. Stop watching movies, and start living in the real world where having an accent does not make you civilized. Honestly, what makes them civilized other than the popular culture you have been spoon fed?

Are they jealous of us, of course they are (in general). Being “rich and powerful” is something everyone would be envious of. Do you think the vast majority of Americans are envious of the fact that the French are snooty and think they are better than others (to use your popular culture stereotypes)

@Jennifer:

No, I’ve always been anti-French because they allowed an evil dictator to run their country instead of fighting to the last man….
My anti- German attitude’s been derived by your attitude of Americans.

That’s funny. I would have guessed it was because we put the evil dictator in power the first place. That would have been a reason.

However, my brother is living there now and is telling me that many German’s are very glad America is doing what they are doing. So you must be in the minority.

No, it means your brother must be smarter than you. He is probably not trumpeting out strange opinions ony an hourly basis. And if that is your “family member’s first hand experience” … then look at the “many” from which you draw “majority”. I don’t say he is wrong, but your conclusion is just …stupid.

(He’s in Hamburg, in case you wonder. …)

The most english city of Germany.

@cystic:

Zooey - you’re missing F_alk’s point.

Thanks CC.

Who else finds it sad that even so obvious humor was missed by the USan here…… EJ, what do you think about that ;) ?