Americans are losing the Victory in Europe

[Oberst Klink]

http://www.jessicaswell.com/Life-Page01.htm

......“To hell with the Germans,” says the broad-shouldered dark lieutenant. “It’s what our boys have been doing that worries me.”

The lieutenant has been talking about the traffic in Army property, the leaking of gasoline into the black market in France and Belgium even while the fighting was going on, the way the Army kicks the civilians around, the looting.......

[TrogL]

1. it's spelled "losing"

and it's spelled right in the link

[Oberst Klink]

2. thanks.

nt

[Droopy]

3. What's the point Klink?

I don't get it. Are you trying to draw some parallel to what is going on now in Iraq?

[brainshrub]

4. Trying to link Iraq to WWII a mistake.

Before you try to link Iraq to WWII. Remember, not a single American GI died in Germany after Germany surrendered.
For more information about the connections between WWII & Iraq read this story:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2087768/

I'm sure that people tried to make a connection between Vietnam & WWII when the anti-war movement started here.

[Oberst Klink]

5. Yea....

I just thought it was an interesting historical point. In the middle of history, things seem and are messy.

When we look back, we tend to use REALLY rosey glasses.

[denverbill]

6. I think I understand his point.

We spent tens of billions of dollars reconstructing Germany and France after WWII, and now, just 50 years later, neither one will give us the goddamned time of day, even though we saved France's ass twice in 40 years.

So why waste our fucking time and money in Iraq when they will just hate us in 50 years? Is that your point?

[mr blur]

7. But...

Why wait 50 years? Surely they hate us (U.S. and U.K.) now?

[pretzel4gore]

8. kind of a juvenile

assessment eh?
no one hates the US....they hate vicious murdering thugs, and the fact the US gov got overthrown isn't the American people's fault (most not even aware of that yet, it seems)
remember, also, the US never entered either part one or two of the European civil war until...part 1-1917, part 2-1941 iow years after killing started, and in both cases mad schemes by elements of US gov were enacted to get the american people to go along...the 'lusitania sinking' and of course pearl harbour.
if anyone saved France's ass it was the USSR which, as Churchill said 'tore the guts out of nazi germany'
believe it, the US entered both times to help/save Britain....France prolly was not even thought about.