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

[Jim Connolly]

Sorry to disappoint, but this was listed there also.

http://www.snopes.com/military/marine.htm

Not that I don't think the french military hat is a bit silly.

Jim Connolly

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org]On Behalf Of John Tonjes
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:54 PM
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> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] FW: From a Marine in Bosnia
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> >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!!!!
> 
> 
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