Democracy or hypocrisy

[My Higher Self]

Dopeuter, I see what you are saying, and yes, America did not enter the war as soon as she possibly should have.

Today at 04:50 AM Oliver said this in Post #78 

Yeah, sure... and this "tossing of rifles" has cost them more lives in a few weeks than the US lost during the whole war, even if you count the war in the Pacific (and I'm not taking civilian losses into consideration).

From the statistics I've found, and they could be wrong, America lost more soldiers during WWII than France. Almost 100,000 more. Where France suffered her major losses was in civilian life.

Datan that's good info, but what exaclty does he mean by friction....perhaps they are delayed from reaching their destinations on time? We've managed to find some stuff they weren't supposed to have, what about the stuff we aren't finding. More importantly, the resolutions stating they aren't supposed to have this stuff is almost 12 years old.

Originally posted by Datan

this is uncalled for country smearing.
The french are one of the most patriotic/nationalistic people. They would never surrender without a fight. Unfortunately, their defense strategy of an impregenable war was flawed. The French put up one of the most famous resistance of the war - the stories of their resistance fighters are known everywhere.

This is either beong ignorant or deliberately ignoring history and indulging in smear tactics. I'm not sure which is worse.

It was neither, it was rude, and I apologize, I'll retract my statement about France throwing down their rifles.

 

[datan]

Today at 09:41 AM My Higher Self said this in Post
Datan that's good info, but what exaclty does he mean by friction....perhaps they are delayed from reaching their destinations on time? We've managed to find some stuff they weren't supposed to have, what about the stuff we aren't finding. More importantly, the resolutions stating they aren't supposed to have this stuff is almost 12 years old.

OK. the point was that during the later stages of the inspections, UN inspectors had helicopters and flew wherever they wanted to, without notifying the Iraqis. Wester journalists and Iraqi officials had to follow by car/other helicopters.

Therefore, they were NOT delayed in reaching their destinations since no one except the inspectors knew where they were going.

 

[Chronicle]

Hmm, full on ???