Sunday, June 12, 2005

poem to an anti-us military frenchie

The following poem was found on one of AOL's message boards
written in response to a Frenchman's derogatory viewpoint about the USA.

Eleven thousand soldiers
lay beneath the dirt and stone,
all buried on a distant land
so far away from home.

For just a strip of dismal beach
they paid a hero's price,
to save a foreign nation
they all made the sacrifice.

And now the shores of Normandy
are lined with blocks of white:
Americans who didn't turn
from someone else's plight.

Eleven thousand reasons
for the French to take our side,
but in the moment of our need,
they chose to run and hide.

Chirac said every war means loss,
perhaps for France that's true,
for they've lost every battle
since the days of Waterloo.

Without a soldier worth a darn
to be found within the region,
the French became the only land
to need a Foreign Legion.

You French all say we're arrogant.
Well, we've earned the right --
we saved your sorry nation
when you lacked the guts to fight.

But now you've made a big mistake,
and one that you'll regret;
you took sides with our enemies,
and that we won't forget.

It wasn't just our citizens
you spit on when you turned,
but every one of yours who fell
the day the towers burned.

You spit upon our soldiers,
on our pilots and Marines,
and now you'll get a little sense
of just what payback means.

So keep your Paris fashions,
your wine and your champagne,
and find some other market
that will buy your airplanes.

And try to find somebody else
to wear your French cologne,
for you're about to find out
what it means to stand alone.

You see, you need us far more
than we ever needed you.
America has better friends
who know how to be true.

I'd rather stand with warriors
who have the will and might,
than huddle in the dark
with those whose only flag is white.

I'll take the Brits, the Aussies,
the Israelis and the rest,
for when it comes to valor
we have seen that they're the best.

We'll count on one another
as we face a moment dire,
while you sit on the sideline
with a sign, "friendship for hire."

We'll win this war without you
and we'll total up the cost,
and take it from your foreign aid,
and then you'll feel the loss.

And when your nation starts to fall,
well, Frenchie, you can spare us,
just call the Germans for a hand,
they know the way to Paris.

9 comments:

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill said...

Don't forget all the help the French gave to you chaps during your war of Independence.

I find name calling the French quite childish just becasue they didn't agree with you killing lots of Arabs.

Oh well...

Ben said...

so basically they can criticize us but god forbid if we do the same to the ungrateful french, and they didn't give us our independence, they only got involved after they knew we were going to win and hoped they would get more credit than they deserved.

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill said...

They didn't critisise you they disagreed with you, something the Bush admin has issues with and takes for an insult.

They didn't back the invasion of Iraq because (as we all knew then) it was on false pretenses and riding roughshod over International Law.

Then in repsonse all that nonsense over Freedom Fries which made the US a laughing stock in the International Community.

And now Bush asks for the help of the French for the Iraq rebuild.

Amazing...

Ben said...

yes they disagreed with us BECAUSE THEY WERE GETTING ILLGEAL OIL MONEY FROM THE OIL FOR FOOD SCANDEL. There is proof of that, they were helping Saddam and were pressuring us (along with Germany and Russia) to loosen up the UN sanctions put on them so they could line their own pockets. God, and you call us near-sighted.

Ben said...

daniel, the rest of the world can laugh at us all they want, they can still never top us, I am serious when I say fuck the rest of the world, fuck international law and most importantly fuck the UN (united nothings)

Ben said...

and once that day comes we will take the rest of the world with us, do you honestly think were going to take having our power usurped lightly? Were cocky, I'll admit that, no one else in the world can be #1. Also tell me what the rest of the world has done the last 200 years. We "invented" (discovered) electricity, the lightbulb, cars, Sewing Machine, Computer, Telegraph, then Telephone, the Artificial Heart, lie detector, TV, air conditioning, and hundreds others that I could name while most (not all mind you) of the world sits on their ass and benefits from us, they are a bunch of ungrateful bastards. Espically those muslims were fighting, they're still in the freaking stone age compared to us and most of the world. They are bitter, they WISH they could be where we were.

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill said...

Ben, you're ranting like a maniac...Take the world with us?

HA HA HA!

Good grief man, you seen too many movies.

The Zombieslayer said...

I found it rather funny. Goes to show liberals do get offended by everything and have less a sense of humor.

By the way, French women are hot and French movies are 2nd best, waaaay better than English movies. But then again, I'm not PC so I still have the ability to laugh.

The Zombieslayer said...

Paul - come on, don't you at least think this stanza is funny?

And when your nation starts to fall,
well, Frenchie, you can spare us,
just call the Germans for a hand,
they know the way to Paris.