[Rhodes22-list] FW: From a Marine in Bosnia

[John Tonjes]

I just had to share this with everyone.
 
Rummy
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From: VMontgo32@aol.com [mailto:VMontgo32@aol.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:39 AM
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Subject: From a Marine in Bosnia


>From a Marine in Bosnia




In light of the French stating that they would Veto any action against
Iraq
that we may propose before the Sequrity Council of the UN, I thought
this
email from a US Marine serving in Bosnia would put things in
perspective.

>From a Marine in Bosnia. Note the signature, but read it last.

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. 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 at some point in the near future anyway.

That is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist
economy
and a bunch of faggots 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 was only
for
show anyway. Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85%
of
the burden, as evidenced by the fact that the 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 beat his
ass in
front of the entire Multinational 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?

Mary Beth Johnson Lt.Col, USMC


DON'T YOU JUST LOVE A REAL AMERICAN WOMAN!!!!