Aratzio wrote in
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 10:32:19 +0000 (UTC), in alt.usenet.kooks, Bertie
the Bunyip bloviated:

Aratzio wrote in
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On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:47:30 -0800, in the land of alt.usenet.kooks,
mariposas rand mair fheal got double secret
probation for writing:

In article ,
Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

"Jay Honeck" wrote in
news:4ZKyj.6120$TT4.1637@attbi_s22:

Perhaps your minor in history didn't cover The Great War, the
Napoleonic Wars, or the Seven Year's War.

Look those up and then come back and discuss France's place in
world history.

Wow, that's really impressive. Not.

Try to keep up, please? We weren't talking about France's
"place
in history" -- we're talking about their national behavior in
World War II, their current status as a former world power, and
their current role as the butt of much disparaging humor in
America.

why exactly am i suppose to be disparaging france?
this seems to have started after they said they were not going to
fight in iraq without real evidence that iraq was making nbc weapons

it sounds to me like i supposed to flush two hundred years
of friendship and mutual struggle down the toilet
because they were right about iraq

does that sum it up correctly


Pretty much.

Nothing like having a handy French Fleet to bottle up Cornwallis on
a
penninsula.

How would things have turned out if the French were not on our side
in
the revolution?


We'd probably be speaking English right now if they hadn;t!


Oh wait.

Bertie

The word yer lokin fer is "commonwealth"


As i the imperial power raping the other country?

Sounds better than "chattel" I suppose.


Bertie