moosehunter
PMA Member
This has nothing to do with hunting but thought everyone would get a kick out of it. Concidering France's refusal to back the US or the UN and thier checkered past as far as defending (or lack of defending) thier own country, I thought it would be fun to pick on them a bit with some jokes or stories. Here's a letter sent home to start it off........
An actual letter from home from a Marine
with the multinational force in Bosnia:
Dear Dad,
A funny thing happened to me yesterday at
Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia):
A French army officer walked up to me in
the PX, and told me he thought we
(Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and
were going to provoke a war in
Iraq.
He said if such a thing happens, we
wouldn't be able to count on the
support of France.
I told him that it didn't surprise me.
Since we had come to France's
rescue in World War I, World War II,
Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude
and jealousy was due to surface [again] at
some point in the near future
anyway.
I also told him that is why France is a
third-rate military power with a socialist economy
and a bunch of pansies for soldiers.
I additionally told him that America,
being a nation of deeds and action,
not words, would do whatever it had to do,
and France's support, if it
ever came, was only for show anyway.
Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US
would shoulder 85% of the burden, and
provide 85% of the support, as evidenced
by the fact that this French officer was
shopping in the American PX, and not
the other way around.
He began to get belligerent at that point,
and I told him if he would like
to, I would meet him outside in front of
the Burger King and whip his ***
in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade
East, thus demonstrating that even the
smallest American had more fight
in him than the average Frenchman.
He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked
away in a huff.
With friends like these, who needs
enemies?
Dad, tell Mom I love her,
Your loving daughter,
Mary Beth Johnson
LtCol., USMC
An actual letter from home from a Marine
with the multinational force in Bosnia:
Dear Dad,
A funny thing happened to me yesterday at
Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia):
A French army officer walked up to me in
the PX, and told me he thought we
(Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and
were going to provoke a war in
Iraq.
He said if such a thing happens, we
wouldn't be able to count on the
support of France.
I told him that it didn't surprise me.
Since we had come to France's
rescue in World War I, World War II,
Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude
and jealousy was due to surface [again] at
some point in the near future
anyway.
I also told him that is why France is a
third-rate military power with a socialist economy
and a bunch of pansies for soldiers.
I additionally told him that America,
being a nation of deeds and action,
not words, would do whatever it had to do,
and France's support, if it
ever came, was only for show anyway.
Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US
would shoulder 85% of the burden, and
provide 85% of the support, as evidenced
by the fact that this French officer was
shopping in the American PX, and not
the other way around.
He began to get belligerent at that point,
and I told him if he would like
to, I would meet him outside in front of
the Burger King and whip his ***
in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade
East, thus demonstrating that even the
smallest American had more fight
in him than the average Frenchman.
He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked
away in a huff.
With friends like these, who needs
enemies?
Dad, tell Mom I love her,
Your loving daughter,
Mary Beth Johnson
LtCol., USMC
