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Originally Posted by julia
Those who criticize the French, are simply grossily misinformed.
Ok, they did send help for Bush'w war in Iraq, but that is because they have had their own share of fighting insurgents at the end of their empire last century in North African countries. Millions of frenchmen including president Jacques Chirac, fought over in Africa through reqired miltary service. The French lost all of those battles as well as the Algerian war. The French population knows a hell lot more about war than the American public.
And, those anti-French talking heads conveniently do not mention that France has always been the country with the most amount of troops in Afghanistan helping the US.
To slam the French is to trully reveal one's very ignorant pov.
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Originally Posted by DRS112
ahh...I see. I couldn't care less if the French are fighting in Iraq.....
what irks me is that their hands are bloodied even more so than most countries in terms of human rights violations...yet they maintain the holier than thou attitude of many Americans...and no...I don't believe that U.S. colonialism was anywhere near the size and scope of the French....
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Ok. Please keep in mind that every industrialized country's flag has blood on it.
That's a tough argument to win which country has more blood on its hands-since all industrialized countries do.
I know of ppl that resisted the Nazi occupation but the Nazis did many heavy-handed things such as send to concentration camps school teachers that refused to fly the nazi flag. The nazis also disrupted national food supplies and left many with nothing to starve.
The French possibly currently have the upper hand re: Human rights vs the US since they have abolished the Death Penalty and have not renounced the Geneva Conventions.
Massively off-topic of the thread, tho.
