Re: Counter Demonstration
 

ARKADYA got caught!

Should we Never Forgive, Never Forget?
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DFM

ellie clemens wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
This story is an obvious fiction; it has all the hallmarks of an urban
legend. Whoever wrote it seems to have decided at the end to make the
soldier into a woman, while forgetting to change the masculine pronoun
earlier on. And the writer seems to assume that both of these people would
be speaking the same language....

I searched for it and found it's been around for a while:
http://www.snopes.com/military/marine.htm


Runge wrote:

Who is she to you?
Another brainwashed bushy groupie?
Your daughter in law?
You met her in front of the UN ?

"ARKADYA" a écrit dans le message de news:
[email protected]...

Message

... letter from home from a marine with the multinational force in

Bosnia:

Dear Dad,

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 in

Iraq.

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 [again] at some point in the near future
anyway.

I also told him that is why France is a third-rate military power with a
socialist economy and a bunch of pansies 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, if it ever came, was only

for

show anyway.

Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the burden,
and provide 85% of the support, as evidenced by the fact that this 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 whip his ass

in

front of the entire Multi-National 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?

Dad, tell Mom I love her,
.
.

Your loving daughter,

Mary Beth Johnson
LtCol., USMC

Never Forgive, Never Forget
9-11-01









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Re: Counter Demonstration
 

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 10:26:49 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, "Runge"
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :

... Oups!
... C'est pour une meilleure compréhension...
... ;-)

Inutile, nous avons tous compris de quoi "ça" retourne... Pas besoin de te dessiner le
néant dans sa coquille d'oeuf... n'est-ce pas ? ;-)

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Where are we going to and why are we in a handbasket ?

Re: Counter Demonstration
 

JohnT wrote:
    >
    > "ARKADYA" wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    > > Just found out something good about Hussein. He has killed more Muslims
    > than
    > > anyone in history, and here I thought the guy was ALL bad.
    > > Never Forgive, Never Forget
    > > 9-11-01
    > >
    > The USA must really be a wealthy Nation because they can afford to install
    > computer terminals in schools for juveniles who are terminally
    > intellectually challenged.
    >
    > JohnT

One can only hope that's the case with "ARKADYA" - much better than
assuming it is a functioning, unconfined American adult.

Re: Counter Demonstration
 

ARKADYA wrote:
    >
    > ARKADYA got caught!
    >
    > You cook, its called humor. I didnt believe it was true as well, but the point
    > is right on, a typical American girl would could bitch slap a french soldier
    > on her bad day.
    > Never Forgive, Never Forget
    > 9-11-01

Boy, I'm sure glad I don't know the kind of people you seem to have for
friends! (and you wouldn't recognize "humor" if it bit you!)

Re: Counter Demonstration
 

    > Anybody from Jersey going to the city for the counter demnonstartion let me
    > know. We are going in by train. We can all hook up and head over to the UN by
    > 12. Bring your US flag. You can be sure OUR side will be the only one with
    > them.

My business does contract work for the US Military, among others. And our
office is situated about three blocks from a US Military Base. When a hand
full of protesters show up at the gates they get front page news which can
last for day. Even if the crowd of fifteen is estimated by the press to be,
"in the hundreds".

On Monday we had to use a back parking lot here because a Pro-American rally
outside the base expanded to the point that traffic had to be re-routed.
Several of us walked over to see the crowd, which were just a polite flag
waving group. And unlike their counter-parts, not attempting to block
traffic or sream obsentities and everyone in the area. This rally was, we
found out later, only announced on a few radio stations, no newspaper or
local broadcast news announcements. The results were, by far, the largest
gathering any of us had seen in the area. And it received back page
coverage by the local evening paper. With no photo and no mention of the
size of the crowd. Broadcast news featured camera shots that minimized
the crowd size. And one station interviewed a well-known local socialist
(who is called by the media a 'community activist') who found a location at
the fringe of the crowd and tried to describe the effort as anti-Bush.

Previously I never had much respect for the local media. Which is pretty
much down to zero now.