US drops 2 million leaflets on Iraq

[BeBMan]

So, what are the other chapters then about?

[Immortal Wombat]

That joke never gets old. It's 1946 right?

[Spiffor]

Somehow, I doubt Fox News will call surrendering Iraqis "[whatever]-eating surrender monkeys". At the contrary, I'm sure they'll praise how right and brave for them it was to surrender.
I can't find an appropriate smiley, because I don't know if I should be saddened or amused by this sheer stupidity

[Lancer]

Chapter 2.

<---- Know lots of good secrets to tell your captors, in return for cheese.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
That joke never gets old. It's 1946 right?

1940, when a better prepared German army attacked France with a fast strategy French generals didn't understand anything about, and felt completely overwhelmed with.
Of course, despite the French resistance (10% of the pop estimated), France's participation in 1944-1945 to the extent it could, French 2 bloody decolonization wars, and France's participation in Gulf War 1, the French remain cowards and cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

That's why this joke is so funny.

[St Leo]

I hope they were printed on recycled paper.

[KrazyHorse]

Pfft.

If France was so good at fighting wars they wouldn't have lost Indochina like that.

[Lancer]

Yadda yadda.

You guys can't think of any humorous leaflets to drop on Iraq?

[GePap]

Come on Spiff: everyone knows that any nation that was defeated by the nazi's was made up of a bunch of cowards! look at the Poles..just one month. Look at the Yugoslavs..what was it, a few hours? and they killed a whole 78 Germans..wow.......trully cheese eating surrender monkeys!

More seriously: It is important to note that the French government did surrender, unlike the smaller states that were simply overrun: it is the action of the Vichy regime that give any sort of validity to the whole "cheese-eating surrender" thing here in the US, where that accusation is far more common than it seems in europe, if only cause Americans did not live in a country invaded or bombed by the Germans, so its easier for the US to talk about valiant resistance to the death for the nation.since we never actually have to put our money were our mouths are. Just like many people today fail to understand what sort of a psych job 9/11 did on Americans, I think it is silly for Americans to forget that France lost 1.3 million men,and had about 5 million injured just 19 years before (France had a 76% casualty rate [dead, injured, captured] between 1914-18).

[muxec]

French history in smiles is great idea. We must ask Stefu for adding some new smiles.

[Lancer]

French army redeploys:

[Lancer]

French army breaks out!

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Frogger
Pfft.

If France was so good at fighting wars they wouldn't have lost Indochina like that.

A whole generation of strategists was terrible, and believed in a WW1 immobility approach (hence the Maginot line, the incompetence facing fast German panzers, sheer stupidity like Dien Bien Phu).
It doesn't make the French people and soldiers more or less brave their counterparts under Napoleon.

[KrazyHorse]

Nobody who ever lost a colonial war in SE Asia should be respected as a military force.

[Immortal Wombat]