France...OUCH!!!

[Canadian Football Guy]

Some great quotes about France and there "history". How they can sit there and refuse to support the countries that saved their asses not once but twice I will never know. Don't get me wrong, I don't want a war but if that is what it takes in the end then so be it. Anyway, have a laugh.

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart
from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has
usually been governed by prostitutes."
-Mark Twain

"I would rather have a German division in front of me
than a French one behind me."
-General George S. Patton

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting
without your accordion."
-Norman Schwartzkopf

"We can stand here like the French, or we can *do* something
about it."
-Marge Simpson

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure."
-Jacques Chirac, President of France

"As far as France is concerned, you're right."
-Rush Limbaugh

"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the
German Army is sitting in Paris, sipping coffee."
-Regis Philbin

"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not
dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee,
but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking
large glasses of whiskey, I don't know."
- P.J O'Rourke

"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress
of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but
doesn't have the face for it."
-John McCain

"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam
Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses and
wears a beret. He *is* French, people."
-Conan O'Brien

"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't
help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help
us get the Germans out of France!"
-Jay Leno

"The last time the French asked for 'more proof,' it came
marching into Paris under a German flag."

-David Letterman

[dacman]

Originally posted by Canadian Football Guy
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting
without your accordion."
-Norman Schwartzkopf

Not correctly attributed....I've also seen it attributed to Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell, but none of these people are the originators of that quote.

See here for details (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/babbin.htm)

[AgPete]

Originally posted by Canadian Football Guy

"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't
help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help
us get the Germans out of France!"
-Jay Leno

"The last time the French asked for 'more proof,' it came
marching into Paris under a German flag."
-David Letterman


:D :D :D

[Easy Mac]

Technically, didn't we only help the French after we were attacked in Pearl Harbor. I don't know my history as well as others on the board, but we only helped after attacked.

If we follow that theory, why should they help us before they are attacked if we failed to do the same for them. The best info I could find says France signed an armistice w/ Germany June 22nd 1940,over 1.5 years (roughly) before we entered the war.

Just lending perspective, I too think the French are pussies.

[Killebrew]

I don't know about the French being pussies, but their version of WW2 history in the French Army Museum at Les Invalides is mighty enlightening;).

[JPhillips]

Don't you know they were all resisters? Evry single one of them rode their bikes with Beckett and thwarted the Nazis at every turn. The American history books would have you believe that many French actually collaborated with the Nazis. Rubbish. Every Frenchman was a war hero, killing a dozen Nazis, destroying four kilometers of railroad, pulling the treads off of two Panzers by hand, and personally liberating Paris!

[ACStrider]

Cmon JPhillips, stop exaggerating.

We all know that the French had to take the treads off of three Panzers with only one hand with the other one being restrained by the American GI who wanted the glory.

[Havok]

hehe thats classic. i saw that on the Francestinks website i think.

Here is something that Portugal's Prime Minister had to say about The USA and Europe.

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030310-081013-9767r

he pretty much hit the nail right on the head with this one.

[Bee]

linky (http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030310-081013-9767r)

Edit: I loved the ferry boat smack. :D

[AgPete]

Originally posted by Havok
hehe thats classic. i saw that on the Francestinks website i think.

Here is something that Portugal's Prime Minister had to say about The USA and Europe.

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030310-081013-9767r

he pretty much hit the nail right on the head with this one.

That's hilarious! France's great contribution to Bosnia were a couple of ferry boats?! HAHAHAHAHAHA