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Never mind that. Think of the other possibilities. Freedom kissing, for example
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quote:Originally posted by Da_bang80: This is getting more and more out of hand. first it's "Freedom Fries" then it's this. it's rediculious.
Actually, none of this is "new." The "renaming" of things started in WWI with "victory cabbage" for sauerkraut, and so forth, and the "reburying the American dead" started with something Truman said to shut up DeGaulle when the latter was being particularly obnoxious about the presence of US troops in France.
Americans lie to themselves and act like they won WWII singlehandedly... but so do the French. It's a conflict of arrogances that goes all the way back to the end of that war.
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You're actually arguing that this whole freedom fries thing isn't rediculious?
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No, it's ridiculous (and so was that spelling of ridiculous.)
I'm just saying that it's not indicative of anything unusual. It's to be expected. Just as are the equally idiotic calls for a boycott of Texas I've been hearing lately from the retaliatory arm of the left.
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quote:quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Typical of human pride and egocentricity to assume those patriotic servicemen died for the US alone, not for the fate of the entire world.
Funny thing is, that's EXACTLY what the Europeans WOULD say, that the US got involved for it's own interests and never gave a damn about Europe, otherwise they'd have gotten involved much sooner (and most likely lost due to unpreparedness, thereby dooming Europe to Nazi rule, but that's beside their point.)
You are right FOT the US did it completely out of the goodness of their souls. Damn I feel honoured just to be able to see your country from my house. If you will excuse me I think I have a tear in my eye.
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"Actually, none of this is "new." The "renaming" of things started in WWI with "victory cabbage" for sauerkraut, and so forth, and the "reburying the American dead" started with something Truman said to shut up DeGaulle when the latter was being particularly obnoxious about the presence of US troops in France."
Yah, I saw that on TV, But it was called "Liberty Cabbage" you yank's are so wierd
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Frankly the whole thing is getting out of hand. The point of calling them Freedom fries I believe is to show the world that the US doesn't need anything french to do what it wants. It is a gigantic Testosterone puffup puffup they hate that routine. Is it silly, you bet; is it pointless, damn straight; does it make the US look like the prick jock from every movie/TV show out there, yep. It looks like all of those things on a global level, however at this point the gov is not trying to impress the world populous. It is trying to maintain the backing of the citizens here.
While I believe that hitting Iraq now may not be the best thing, neither can we continue to sit around until he launches one of his missles. Regardless of what the average joe schmoe thinks of France we really do need their help on this matter.
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On the other hand it isn't quite as stupid as this.
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quote:Originally posted by Mucus: Has anyone come across anyone saying "Freedom Fries" in real life? Do people really say "Freedom Fries" with a straight face? Seriously, for great hilarity
Only someone making fun of them.
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