So I'm French kissing my wife while drinking a bottle of French wine and

[othermeans]

dining on French fries when I stumbled across this site about the French forces in Afghanistan.

French and German commitment to OEF has been strong and resolute since the beginning of the operation. As soon as United Nations Security Council Resolution 1378 was issued on 18 October 2001, French forces were sent in Afghanistan. Since October 21, French reconnaissance aircraft and air tankers have contributed to the air campaign. They were reinforced between the winter of 2001 and the summer of 2002 by French naval aviation forces and French air force transport planes and fighters.

Indeed, France was the first country, along with the United States, to have flown bombing missions over Afghanistan in direct support of American ground troops. French forces arrived on the ground as early as 2 December 2001, securing Mazar-e-Sharif. In total, some 5,500 French service members were sent to the region.

Oh yeah it wasn't a French internet site. It was the US CENTCOM site
http://www.centcom.mil/Operations/Coalition/Coalition_pages/france.htm

I guess old Bill O'Leilly doesn't read much.

[jobycom]

1. That's what good friends do

They help you when you need help, and try to talk you out of bad ideas when you don't need help. Sad that we didn't listen.

[flamin lib]

2. Marking to retrieve so I can beat the $#!t out of a friend . . .nt

[ArbustoBuster]

3. France is our friend

They were our first ally, back in the Revolutionary War, and they're our ally now. I'm glad to see our military recognizes it, even if their civilian masters don't.

[baldguy]

9. France is our friend.

Bush is our enemy.

[noahmijo]

4. I always looked at France as that brother who you always tease

Yes it's too much fun not to throw some zingers at them, but at the core you do it cause ya love em like the brothers they are :)

[Wapsie B]

5. And remember............

without a little help from those bad old French, our national anthem would be,"God Save the Queen."

[Lasher]

6. I'm having French toast for breakfast.

Most Americans now realize that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake. France (and others) was right and we were wrong.

[welshTerrier2]

7. the great Stephen Wright line ...

your post made me think of his joke:

i went into a restaurant that had a sign that said "Breakfast anytime" so i ordered French toast during the Renaissance ....

[AngryAmish]

16. It's a small world

but I wouldn't want to paint it.

[lildreamer316]

8. Layfayette, anyone?

How quickly we forget. It was ONLY 200 years ago. There are countries that have bourbon older than us.

[rosesaylavee]

10. The Day After 9/11, France' Le Monde's headline read

"Today, We are All Americans"

Yeah, they must hate us for our freedom. :sarcasm:

[IndyOp]

11. France should NOT be providing ANY support to US - IMO

France is backing an unprovoked attack - they should not be there. We should not be there.

A 6th grade bully beats up kindergartener on the playground. The bully's 5th grade friend holds the bully's coat and gets in a few kicks at the kindergartener. Yeah, the 5th grader is a GREAT FRIEND!

NOT.

On Edit: And, yes, of course O'Lielly should be telling the truth about what France is doing.

[baldguy]

18. Afghanistan is not Iraq.

[pattim]

12. You read US Centcom while making out?

Man, you kick my news-junkie ass.

[ret5hd]

13. wait till they start makin' love...

he probably asks her to read transcripts of the evening news.

[DemBones DemBones]

15. I can't figure out how he was

French kissing his wife WHILE drinking French wine AND eating French fries.

:shrug:

Some things should NOT be multitasked!

[kevsand]

20. Just wait til he gets to the tickler... /nt

[cwydro]

14. yeah, and let's

not forget the Statue of Liberty...a gift from the lovely French....surprised the Bushits didn't try to give it back....:banghead:

[No Exit]

17. Guess what? The "Freedom Fries" guy now wants us out of Iraq.

It was some congressman from one of the Carolinas. Saw him on TV today. Name is Jones. He was the jackass who started the "freedom fries instead of French fries" bullshit--and now, he says, he's had an epiphany (after he attended a really sad military funeral for some poor young soldier-victim of the Butcher of Crawford.)

[GreenInNC]

21. Jones from North Carolina

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

19. Yeah, I'll be buying a nice French Bordeaux and buying a German car.

A win-win situation-- we get quality products made by people in two wonderful countries, and we get to piss off the Iraq War's doltish hawks in the process. It cracks me up that sales of many French wines, and cars like the German VW, have shot up so much in recent months-- must burn the xenophobic idiots up inside.

I tried to explain to the hawks exactly what you said, that France and Germany were both among the first nations to offer sympathy to the US after September 11 (remember that German ship that draped an American flag and saluted an American counterpart a couple days afterward?) and to send troops into Afghanistan. If only Bush had avoided this stupid Iraq War and not directed his yapping fools against these two countries, we might have some of the friendliest relations in our respective histories. But instead, we're roundly hated in Europe and the world over.

The Francophobic and Germanophobic BS in here plays to the worst of US instincts-- the xenophobia, historical amnesia, arrogance that's so often been our Achilles heel. The French and Germans have contributed so much to society, all their brilliance in music, art, science (the heart of modern technology came out of those countries' institutions in the 1800's), that the hawks' insults to them become even less acceptable.

[sleipnir]

22. I think I'll use a French Tickler tonight

:evilgrin: