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

[Paul Grandholm]

Rummy -- Loved it! -- Paul
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>I just had to share this with everyone.
>
>Rummy
>-----Original Message-----
>From: VMontgo32@aol.com [mailto:VMontgo32@aol.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:39 AM
>To: undisclosed-recipients:
>Subject: From a Marine in Bosnia
>
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>>From a Marine in Bosnia
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>
>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.
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>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
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>
>DON'T YOU JUST LOVE A REAL AMERICAN WOMAN!!!!
>
>
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Paul Grandholm
C&H Technology
GrandPower Components Div.
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