France's WW-II Ceremony Acompanied by Protests vs. USA

by Gerard 70 Replies latest social current

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  Gerard

  I was wondering what the French had to say on D-Day celebrations in their own country. They will have a week of celebrations, but:

  En tant que représentant des Etats-Unis, c'est George Bush qui recueillera l'hommage aux "combattants de la liberté" de la seconde guerre mondiale. Cela n'est pas sans susciter en France quelques grincements de dents, commentaires cinglants sur ce "paradoxe du 6 juin", selon Laurent Fabius, pour qui M. Bush est "l'exact opposé des valeurs qui font que nous aimons l'Amérique", et projets de manifestations.

  A loose translation: "Aside from representing the USA, it is George Bush who will host the commemoration of WW-II "freedom fighters". This is not without causing some teeth-grinding [...] as Bush is the exact opposite of the values we love of America and manifestations are expected."

  I can't get over their arrogance! They were freed from a brutal dictator (Hitler) by the allies and are now so critical of basically the same allies from freeing Iraq. How would they like to be left under Hitler's thumb just because a greedy little president with interests in France organized manifestations against D-Day?
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  bisous

  Sorry but just don't see the connection between disgust for Bush and thankfullness for our support in WWII....

  nor the comparison of Germany's oppression of basically the major countries in the world vs. Hussein ....
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  confusedjw

  The Cartoon guy quoted:

  En tant que représentant des Etats-Unis, c'est George Bush qui recueillera l'hommage aux "combattants de la liberté" de la seconde guerre mondiale. Cela n'est pas sans susciter en France quelques grincements de dents, commentaires cinglants sur ce "paradoxe du 6 juin", selon Laurent Fabius, pour qui M. Bush est "l'exact opposé des valeurs qui font que nous aimons l'Amérique", et projets de manifestations.

  Loosely translated the first part says "Bush is coming to town".

  The last part says "We surrender!"
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  bisous

  that must be francoamerican yer trying to speak!
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  confusedjw
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  avishai

  Sorry but just don't see the connection between disgust for Bush and thankfullness for our support in WWII....

  nor the comparison of Germany's oppression of basically the major countries in the world vs. Hussein ....

  The connection is they can protest Bush on their own time. Not at a D-day celebration. They already have problems w/ defacing american d-day graves over there at the start of this war. Disgusting. I guess they'd rather be singing "Deutschland, Deutschland, uber alles".
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  bisous

  good one cj!!! lol

  by the way, your translation is about as tasty as the spaghetti-o's.....but don't worry:

  
  
  
  
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  bisous

  actually, Avi....we don't own the market on the calendar just like even thought we want to ramrod our beliefs throughout the world, that really isn't our place either.

  Freedom of speech we enjoy here in the U.S. .... and so should everyone else.... wherever they're located.

  side note, funny how it sure as hell didn't take the French, or other Euro countries for that matter, 50 years to erect a monument to their WWII fighters.....hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, guess we don't own the market on national patriotism either.
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  Gerard

  Sorry but just don't see the connection between disgust for Bush and thankfullness for our support in WWII....

  nor the comparison of Germany's oppression of basically the major countries in the world vs. Hussein ....

  Try FREEDOM.
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  bisous

  Hitler = Hussein?

  lmao