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Re: level of debate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:12:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Soren Roberts writes:
> Sounds like they need to learn their history. IIRC, the French Army won the
> Battle of Verdun, under the heaviest shelling and most hideous battlefield
> conditions in history. Call that what you will, but cowardly it is not.
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> The Germans won in 1940 because the French generals could not cope with the new
> tactics of the German army quickly enough,
Yep the 1930's equivalent of "star wars" was an expensive dud... [parts of it
were moved to the "Atlantic Wall" IRC].
> not because their troops were weak or
> their weaponry in any way deficient. And don't get me started on the resistance.
French resistance: The fig leaf that covers the truth.
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> And finally, didn't the French aid the fledgling USA during the American
> Revolution?
Is it not the other way around: "didn't the fledgling USA aid the French during
the *American* Revolution?" ;)
Scott A
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> I'm going to stop now. The whole argument is absurd. If this is what our
> "freedom" looks like, then God Save The King.
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> Take care,
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> Soren
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| Sounds like they need to learn their history. IIRC, the French Army won the Battle of Verdun, under the heaviest shelling and most hideous battlefield conditions in history. Call that what you will, but cowardly it is not. The Germans won in 1940 (...) (22 years ago, 13-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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