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tclambert

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6. How have we forgotten Lafayette? Without France's help, we would have lost the American Rebellion.

Reply to Mass (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2014, 11:48 AM

Jan 2014

(You call it rebellion rather than revolution when the rebels lose.) Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and some number of Adamses would have been hanged.

But they didn't support our righteous war with Iraq and thought George W. Bush was un imbécile, therefore we must call pommes frites freedom fries! That'll teach those "cheese eating surrender monkeys."

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Just to remind people that what you read in papers about foreign countries is not always correct [View all] Mass Jan 2014 OP

k&r for the truth. n/t Laelth Jan 2014 #1

US corpmedia will say whatever supports the furthering of their owners' fascist agenda. blm Jan 2014 #2

The American RW view of France sometimes amazes me LeftishBrit Jan 2014 #3

I find all sorts of inaccurate "information" about Japan in the U.S. press Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2014 #4

I find all sorts of inaccurate "information" ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2014 #7

That too, that too Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2014 #8

Great post. geardaddy Jan 2014 #5

How have we forgotten Lafayette? Without France's help, we would have lost the American Rebellion. tclambert Jan 2014 #6

I don't ever believe anything I see in the American corporate press until enough time Egalitarian Thug Jan 2014 #9