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PeteSelman

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25. Hogwash.

Reply to cali (Reply #24)

Mon Apr 6, 2015, 08:17 AM

Apr 2015

If I tell you I have a car, you might ask for details about it. What make? Model? Color? Engine size? Etc.

All major points, all details and specifics.

There was this war, it was called World War II.

Oh yeah? Who was in it? Can you give me some details?

Well there was Germany, Italy, Japan, England, Russia, The United States......

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"...Gas chambers were a 'detail' of WWII history", says France's Front National. [View all] Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 OP

Isn't it pretty much down to Sarkozy and LePen? Dumb and Way, Way Dumber, in essence? nt MADem Apr 2015 #1

Well, yeah, and Sarko keeps edging further and further right Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #3

Exact Surya. mylye2222 Apr 2015 #4

^^^AMEN to that^^^ Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #6

Well, they are a detail aren't they? PeteSelman Apr 2015 #2

Breaking twitter feed from right-hand side bar of linked page. Nothing more, yet. Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #5

While factually correct, your point will be lost in a storm of umbrage linuxman Apr 2015 #7

Among the former frontline protagonists, i.e. DE and FR, anything Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #8

a detail by definition, is a small feature cali Apr 2015 #26

But no modern political party is claiming that D-Day or the Bataan Death March were just "details" pampango Apr 2015 #9

no. none of those are details cali Apr 2015 #22

In the truest sense of the word, yes. PeteSelman Apr 2015 #23

baloney. find one respected historian of the period cali Apr 2015 #24

Hogwash. PeteSelman Apr 2015 #25

Pete... trumad Apr 2015 #28

codswallop cali Apr 2015 #29

I'm guessing that the statement was not issued in German. n/t Orsino Apr 2015 #10

In French, by the leader of the French neo-fascist movement. Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #11

So the Civil War was about states rights and Northern aggression, not slavery. Not. Unbelievable appalachiablue Apr 2015 #12

Yes, she and all of her neo-fascist pack should be_________! Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #13

Isn't there some way to induce the crazy RW authoritarians & fascists to relocate to another appalachiablue Apr 2015 #19

Well, their stronghold in France is the rural areas, but France is only so big...LOL! They're here, Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #20

Will that POS old war criminel Papy Le Pen die one day! mylye2222 Apr 2015 #14

Unfortunately, his spawn is still young and healthy! Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #15

LePen's piggishness has no bottom tishaLA Apr 2015 #16

Truly a pond scum, bottom feeder. And his daughter is a carbon copy, just easier to look at. Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #21

Lowest of the low...even his daughter is tryng to distance herself from him now. Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #27

So was the atom bomb, I guess KamaAina Apr 2015 #17

Oh, snap. A minor footnote of history... Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #18