Bush sending Marines to France
 

President Bush May Send Marines For French Assistance

President Bush has authorized the Joint Chiefs to begin drawing up a
battle plan to pull France's ### out of the fire again. Facing an
apparent overwhelming force of up to 400 pissed off teenagers Mr.
Bush doubts France's ability to hold off the little pissants. "Hell,
if the last two world wars are any indication, I would expect France
to surrender any day now", said Bush.

Joint Chiefs head, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, warned the President that
it might be necessary to send up to 5 Marines to get things under
control. The general admitted that 5 Marines may be overkill but he
wanted to get this thing under control within 24 hours of arriving on
scene. He stated he was having a hard time finding even one Marine to
help those ungrateful bastards out for a third time, but thought that
he could persuade a few women Marines to do the job before they went
on pregnancy leave.

President Bush asked Gen. Pace to get our Marines out of there as
soon as possible after order was restored. He also reminded Gen. Pace
to make sure the Marines did not take soap, razors, or deodorant with
them. The least they stand out the better.

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Where is the UN? Why does the US have to come to the rescue as usual.

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Where is the UN? Why does the US have to come to the rescue as usual.

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Dude, I hope this is sarcastic as well.

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...women Marines...

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Where is the UN? Why does the US have to come to the rescue as usual.

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Dude, I hope this is sarcastic as well.

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It would be funnier if it wasnt.

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Is that from The Onion? If not, well done.

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It would be funnier if it wasnt.

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Yes, I'm really hoping it wasnt as well.

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too bad it's not the Germans...

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It's from here.

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It would be funnier if it wasnt.

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Yes, I'm really hoping it wasnt as well.

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I'm guessing it was 100% legit. It wasn't a funny enough statement to be anything but completely serious.

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[img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Thnx for the linky. Also appearing on that page was this...


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Re: Bush sending Marines to France
 

I've sorta taken a new interest in France...

It sounds like a lot of the arabs and protesters in France were the children and grandchildren of collaborators with the French during the fight for Algerian Independance - so in many ways, they were dispossessed from the Arab world for siding with France.

Now they feel France is trying to dispossess them too - this could be interesting - anyone who watched "The Battle for Algiers" knows that's as dirty as it got - just as bad as Iraq is now, complete with freedom fighters and the Major Power justifying torture as the means to an end.

I'll be very interested to see how this plays out.

RB

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"It sounds like a lot of the arabs and protesters in France were the children and grandchildren of collaborators with the French during the fight for Algerian Independance - so in many ways, they were dispossessed from the Arab world for siding with France."

Depends what you mean by a lot. Many of the harkis went to France but I doubt they made up anything like a majority of Algerian immigrants, so I'm not sure they can be used as an explanatory factor for trends amongst immigrants. Most people went for economic reasons. There was already a big immigrant population pre-independence; indeed the FLN (Algerian independence movement) had a large, active wing in France - some argue that it essentially started there.