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  1. DougM (jackassophobe)
    Posted May 5, 2012 at 8:28 pm |

    Mr President, we must not allow a PhotoShop gap!

  2. Colonel Jerry USMC
    Posted May 5, 2012 at 8:40 pm |

    June, 1940. A Frenchman, “Nooo, the Germans are not going to attack. Hitler does not want war!”

    (…also, the month that German scientists were testing a V1 “Doodle Bug” cruise missile at Pennemunde….)

  3. geezerette
    Posted May 5, 2012 at 9:45 pm |

    Well alrighty than.

  4. Claire: pink pig barbarian, etc
    Posted May 5, 2012 at 9:47 pm |

    Ok — now I’m askeert.

  5. mech
    Posted May 5, 2012 at 10:06 pm |

    But they have the Maginot Line.

  6. Spin
    Posted May 5, 2012 at 10:16 pm |

    If it were only the Chinese helping them I wouldn’t be concerned – see N. Korea but the ruskies are there and quite adamant that the US and the euro-weenies MYOB.

    A glass parking lot from Iraq to Pooky-stan might make me feel better tho…

  7. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted May 5, 2012 at 10:19 pm |

    mech…when we went to Germany and Prague to see my Cousin Joe we took a ride to France one afternoon and pulled over at the Maginot Line…we all laughed uproariously walking around and seeing it up close…

  8. Lucius Severus Pertinax
    Posted May 6, 2012 at 3:14 am |

    Actually, the Maginot Line would have formed a MOST formidable obstacle, IF the Germans had chosen to fight by the 1918 playbook.

    Of course they didn’t….

    In the same vein, battleships are formidable weapons platforms, provided the other guy isn’t using aircraft carriers and submarines.

  9. Annoyed White Male
    Posted May 6, 2012 at 7:34 am |

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XvJ4UxNqcuY/SHhNjJwnEYI/AAAAAAAAAFE/c88113sibao/s320/coyote.jpg
    I wish I could take credit for it.

  10. Colonel Jerry USMC
    Posted May 6, 2012 at 8:32 am |

    Speculating on Frogs is akin to potting your chips playing 21, when your hand is four 2s and a 4….! The French could have finished the Maginot Line; they had a larger Army and better tanks! BUT, the big chink in their armor? They were fucking Frogs!!!!!!!

  11. Gwillie
    Posted May 6, 2012 at 8:59 am |

    France’s Director for Strategy Affairs and Defense Policy…
    Long title for “the guy who gets to wave the white flag”.

  12. Hog Whitman
    Posted May 6, 2012 at 4:17 pm |

    Colonel Jerry, SIR!: You said : “chink in their armor”, and I believe they were on our side in WWTOO!

  13. SondraK, Queen of my domain
    Posted May 6, 2012 at 7:10 pm |

    ^ that’s racist.

  14. Ironic in Denver
    Posted May 6, 2012 at 9:12 pm |

    Actually Hog (12) we were on theirs, though who knows why. When we landed in Africa, we had to silence the Vichy gun positions that were shelling us before we could liberate them. Plus lots more etc situations elsewhere. I recall us doing lots for them, but I don’t recall them doing much for us.

    ColJ (10): uhh…. am I correctly remembering that the French didn’t finish that line because they feared it would offend the Dutch, or something like that? [*fast-forwarding now to current American politics*]

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