The French have really done it this time....

[edamon]

At Etaples, where 11,000 Allied liberators from WWI are buried, French degenerates defiled the monument with these slogans in red paint, the London Times and the London Sun reported today: "Dig up your rubbish. It’s fouling our soil,†"May Saddam prevail and spill your blood," and "Rosbeefs [a French slur at the Brits] go home."

David Uffold, the only surviving relative of Rifleman Frederick Uffold of the London Regiment, who is buried at Etaples, told the Times: "I find it sickening that anyone would vandalize the cemetery. It is the last place they should be protesting about Iraq. These fellows were drafted in to fight for France. I can’t see any connection between the men buried at Etaples and the war in Iraq.â€

Roy Hemmington, spokesman for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, said: "We are deeply offended. This is the strongest language and most vile graffiti I have witnessed at a war graves cemetery.

"The suggestion that the bodies of soldiers who died for France should be dug up is particularly foul.â€

And what do the U.S. appeasement activists who are so smitten with the French have to say about this?

Perhaps this latest atrocity of the Frogs will add impetus to Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's effort to let families of war heroes buried in befouled French soil bring the remains back home to clean ground.

 

[Mike Irwin]

I personally think we should start bringing home our American war dead. But I've felt that way for a long time, not just because of the current situation.

Now, however, as each American is removed from a plot in France, the hole should be filled with a variety of chemical and nuclear waste.

Sort of like the Roman trick of salting the ground at Carthage.

 

[Sir Galahad]

After WW2, we should have traded France to the Soviets for Eastern Europe. I wouldn't accept France as a stake in a bet in a poker game if I was staking a box of White Owl cigars. Ungrateful, disgusting bums.

 

[Hkmp5sd]

I personally think we should start bringing home our American war dead. But I've felt that way for a long time, not just because of the current situation.

I heard a really good discussion on this topic on the radio yesterday. I am also of the opinion we should bring our war-dead back home. However, one caller stated that by leaving these Americans there, we are forcing France and any other nation where they are located to remember the sacrifice made by Americans to save their country. No matter what their opinion of the US, they can never view those graves and ignore their meaning.

 

[agricola]

its almost certain that French citizens werent responsible for that, more likely immigrants. I say that because there are errors in spelling that a born and bread Frenchman wouldnt make - "rosbeefs" is actually "rosbifs" and suggests that the person who painted it is more familiar with English than French.

besides, almost every French citizen would be as outraged as we are at this act; remember that a swastika was also painted on the shrine.

here is the image:



and here is the comment from Le Monde:

http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3462--315332-,00.html

 

[4v50 Gary]

Concur that it's an immigrant, or an illiterate Frenchie. I know we have our share of illiterates but the French too?

 

[Standing Wolf]

The French are just jealous because they still consider horse a rare, expensive delicacy.

 

[agricola]

i did consider an illiterate but why would he (lets face it no woman would do that) be literate in English and not French?

Remember the condition that those sites, of all nations involved in the conflicts in France, have been kept in, in most cases more than eighty years since the end of the Great War. Their pristine condition says more about the true feelings of France (and character of the French) than this blasphemy. At the bottom of the Le Monde article a war veteran says:

"" J'irai. Bien sûr que j'irai, affirme René, un ancien combattant d'Etaples. "J'irai même si je suis contre la guerre actuelle ; j'irai car je me souviens très bien de l'aide des Anglais et des Américains. Ici on n'oublie pas."

here we will not forget, and they havent.

edited cos of bad Franglais grammar

 

[Sir Galahad]

Spelling errors do not mean immigrants did it. Look how many Americans born here misspell words. People who do grafitti are not noted to be very bright. Saying "immigrants did it" is a way of excusing it. Bear in mind the burning of synagogues in France and the French government that actually came out and said they couldn't protect the synagogues. "Couldn't" or wouldn't? How about the Jews assaulted and harrassed on the streets in France? Was it all immigrants who did that? Many modern French tend to equate race and nationality with politics and government. Hence, the policies of Israel got equated with ALL Jews. Hence, the burning of synagogues. In many ways, the French leftists are very much like the Ku Klux Klan of the early 1960s who took out their anger about desegregation policies of the federal government on local black sharecroppers who had nothing to do with it. Terrorists are terrorists whether they wear ridiculous white pointy hats and hoods, ski masks or black bandanas over their mouths. They cannot strike out at the U.S. and British governments, so they, like the cowards they are, strike those who cannot defend themselves: the dead. The same as the cowards who burn synagogues and attack young Jewish girls and boys because they hate Israel. Just like the cowards in white hoods who blew up black churches in the Jim Crow South. These cowards cannot attack the armed and will not attack the armed because they are cowards. Just like any common terrorist. Cowards and wimps, one and all.

 

[jimbo]

Come on! You can't brand ALL french because one dick-head vandalized a cemetery. It was probably not a french person at all but one of the 4-million muslim immigrants in France, not one of her native born.

Think, people!

 

[Carlos]

French or not, immigrant, or not, it reflects a state of mind that should be exterminated.

It takes a sick F%K to defile a grave site.

 

[Sir Galahad]

Let's see the French police earnestly investigate the incident as well as the synagogue burnings. Some piece of filth might get away with burning one synagogue or defacing one veteran's cemetary here in the U.S. and not get caught, but I bet he wouldn't get away with a second without some very PO'd folks catching him and introducing him to Mr. Ballbat.

 

[Preacherman]

Friends, condemnation of this action is OK and fully justifiable. Condemnation of all of France, or all the French people, is not. Remember that many of them died to save the lives of our servicemen in World War II, and must be turning in their graves at least as much as our guys! French-bashing in general has become too ready a response to particular incidents. It's time we stopped - this thread too!