I keep on getting french jokes aside from the 60 million french jokes in france, and I was just sent another that they say is a true story but man, enough is enough.
An Actual Letter Home From A Marine with the Multinational
Force in Bosnia
Dear Dad,
A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camo Bondsteel (Bosnia).
A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought
we (Americans) were a bunchs 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 surpise 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 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
An Actual Letter Home From A Marine with the Multinational
Force in Bosnia
Dear Dad,
A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camo Bondsteel (Bosnia).
A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought
we (Americans) were a bunchs 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 surpise 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 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
Well, the women in-line skaters around here are hot anyway. No, I don't skate, but I will to meet some of them fine women.
