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Comment comment by DrunkGunToter on 09 May 2007

What about Spain and the Netherlands? They all jumped on the screw Britan band wagon after the battle of Saratoga. Don't make the French out to be something they are not. They were more interested in punishing the British than helping us. If they would not have helped.... we would have eventually broken away... and things would be much like they are now; However, If we would not have entered a couple of minor scuffles called WWI and WWII... The French would be speaking German right now. So.... who owes whom?

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RE: the implications by Occams :: NR6

It was not a war of attrition like Vietnam because the outcome was decided in one battle. Sure, Spain and the Netherlands were there in small numbers, but like us, they had no impact in the decisive battle.

I suspect that the French would be speaking Russian now: not German. We might be also.

My point is that all that freedom fries nonsense was historically inaccurate as well as damn stupid.

I bet W now wishes he had listened to The French before committing us to Iraq.

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