Booster4324 Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 AP - PARIS - Update - This is a breaking news story. France has surrended to al-Qaida. AP - PARIS – France is "at war" with al-Qaida and will step up efforts to fight its North African offshoot after it executed a French hostage in the Sahara, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100727/ap_on_...l_qaida_hostage
BB27 Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 Have some fun with this.... Google "French Military Victories" and hit the I'm feeling lucky button.... RESULTS
dib Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 I almost bought a French rifle once, it had never been fired and only dropped once.
Chef Jim Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 I almost bought a French rifle once, it had never been fired and only dropped once....from over the owners head. You forgot the last bit.
BuffaloBill Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 Have some fun with this.... Google "French Military Victories" and hit the I'm feeling lucky button.... RESULTS
DC Tom Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 Have some fun with this.... Google "French Military Victories" and hit the I'm feeling lucky button.... RESULTS That's not very fair. The French did attack Greenpeace without getting their asses kicked.
DrFishfinder Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 So the US is off the hook now? We all breath a sigh of relief as we don our berets, nibble brie & sip chardonnay with our pinky's pointing north.
Dante Posted July 27, 2010 Posted July 27, 2010 That's not very fair. The French did attack Greenpeace without getting their asses kicked. I think that's one of the few battles that I would actually cheer for the French
DC Tom Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 I think that's one of the few battles that I would actually cheer for the French French agents sink Rainbow Warrior, surrender to neighborhood watch. Yes, you read that right...not New Zealand, not even Greenpeace. French agents captured by a bunch of portly middle-aged guys playing rent-a-cop.
Booster4324 Posted July 28, 2010 Author Posted July 28, 2010 French agents sink Rainbow Warrior, surrender to neighborhood watch. Yes, you read that right...not New Zealand, not even Greenpeace. French agents captured by a bunch of portly middle-aged guys playing rent-a-cop. That was like an elite French team too. Not run of the mill soldiers, Special Forces types and secret agents. To be fair, I suppose they might have got away with it if the Greenpeace guys hadn't rushed back onto a ship that just had a huge explosion. The guy who died, a photographer, went back for his cameras.
Chef Jim Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 French agents sink Rainbow Warrior, surrender to neighborhood watch. Yes, you read that right...not New Zealand, not even Greenpeace. French agents captured by a bunch of portly middle-aged guys playing rent-a-cop. Wha, huh, wait, whoa, did you just link to Wiki??
boyst Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 The guys on Whale Wars would defeat the entire French Navy
DC Tom Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 Wha, huh, wait, whoa, did you just link to Wiki?? Yeah...but not without vetting the article myself, so it's reliable.
justnzane Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 Have some fun with this.... Google "French Military Victories" and hit the I'm feeling lucky button.... RESULTS nice http://www.militaryfactory.com/battles/fre...y_victories.asp
Chef Jim Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 Yeah...but not without vetting the article myself, so it's reliable. But of course.
Booster4324 Posted July 28, 2010 Author Posted July 28, 2010 But of course. There are all these little blue things after most of the statements. They are footnotes to the links to back up the article. If they do not have one, perhaps take it with a larger grain of salt than you do any one individual link. Food for thought perhaps.
dib Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 The guys on Whale Wars would defeat the entire French Navy The French have a Navy?
olivier in france Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 i've not been on TBD for about 4 months and the day after i come back i have to read those eternal bad jokes... great... is it too much to ask once in a while for a little respect for the french military guys currently fighting with US forces in Afghanistan? Is too much to ask for a little respect for the french special forces fighting the war vs terrorism with the US and their allies in Africa, the Middle East, Asia? Is too much to ask for a little respect for guys like my Grand Father who fought the war vs the Nazis in 1940 ? I don't know why he should not have that respect because he fought that war during a period when the allies were defeated... 55 years after those battles he still had tears and anger in his eyes when he was talking about them... There is no second class veterans. English vets who were at Dunkirk never hear those "dropped rifles jokes"...
DrFishfinder Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 i've not been on TBD for about 4 months and the day after i come back i have to read those eternal bad jokes... great... is it too much to ask once in a while for a little respect for the french military guys currently fighting with US forces in Afghanistan? Is too much to ask for a little respect for the french special forces fighting the war vs terrorism with the US and their allies in Africa, the Middle East, Asia? Is too much to ask for a little respect for guys like my Grand Father who fought the war vs the Nazis in 1940 ? I don't know why he should not have that respect because he fought that war during a period when the allies were defeated... 55 years after those battles he still had tears and anger in his eyes when he was talking about them... There is no second class veterans. English vets who were at Dunkirk never hear those "dropped rifles jokes"... My apologies, Olivier.
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