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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cartmaniac: [qb] [i]"But fewer people are aware that King Louis XVI spent so much money on arms shipments to American rebels that he bankrupted the royal treasury, plunged his nation into depression and unleashed a political upheaval that ultimately resulted in the end of the monarchy. Franklin Roosevelt wrote some fat checks to save France; Louis gave up his and his wife's heads."[/i][/qb][/QUOTE]Of course, those lavish palaces had [i]nothing[/i] to do with it. He supported us out of the goodness of hisThese were the "let them eat cake" people we're talking about here. [QUOTE] [qb]Harm which never came. Also: [/qb][/QUOTE]Irrelevant, and disengenuous to boot. Just because you were never kidnapped and murdered as a child, does not mean your parents didn't protect you. Do you honestly think the outcome would have been the same had the US left Europe to the tender mercies of the Warsaw Pact? If you do, you're beyond any assistance I can give you: seek psychiatric care immediately. [QUOTE] [qb][i]"France lost a staggering four percent of its population during the Great War. (Imagine a war that killed 11 million Americans today.) Twenty years later, in 1939, the French army still suffered from a massive manpower shortage. Demographics, lousy planning and equipment shortages--the Great Depression had also hit France--cost 100,000 French soldiers their lives during six awful weeks in 1940."[/i] I'd say the score's been settled. [/qb][/QUOTE]Does it not mean anything, because the Germans lost an equal number of men in WWI? France lost 3.5% of their population in WWI, Germany 2.5%. Yet Germany recovered to a much greater extent than France OR England. And if you want to get technical, Our military casualties in WWII? Nearly double the French. They come out ahead of us in civilian casualties only because the war was fought on their soil and not ours. (Although we still lost roughly 6000 civilians.) And not one Frenchman died protecting or recapturing American soil in any of those wars. So our debt remains paid... with a considerable amount of interest. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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