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With Friends Like These....
By John
February 14, 2007: European opposition to American efforts in Iraq is expressed in many little ways. For example, American transports flying badly wounded U.S. troops back to the United States, often ask European air controllers for a more direct flight path through European air space. This is in order to get the wounded soldier or marine to the American hospital more quickly. This is particularly useful when the aircraft have been turned into a flying ECU (Emergency Care Unit), and doctors are actually treating the seriously wounded in flight. The European air controllers rarely allow the direct flight. It would mean some more work for them, but saying "no" is another way to stick it to those bastards who removed Saddam Hussein from power, and continue to fight Iraqis who want to destroy democracy in Iraq. When the American medical flight reaches American air space, air controllers are quick to give the transports the shortest possible route to its destination. Some of these medical flights are non-stop from Iraq to Texas, where there are several major military hospitals.
Hotel Tango to Robert Averch, who quipped:
This should come as no great surprise. When French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin was asked at a press conference in London whether he wished for the United States to win in Iraq, the dapper Frenchman refused to answer.
Yup. We've got em here, too.
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John,
Good post. Unfortunately, most of the American public cares more about Britney Spear's shaved head than this. The only things I hear about europe is like the American Pie line 'This one time I was in band camp...' or 'This one time I was sipping latte at a cafe in Milan' Europe is so wonderful when really they do not know ANYTHING about the culture, language, the problems that continent is facing, or current anti-american feelings going on there. There is this zombie like attraction in America that I do not understand.
Read the trash from Der Spiegel and the other rags over there and you'll see true europe. There should be some english translations of that garbage newspaper.
If things get really bad in the middle east it will be too bad that the first 'apostate' continent to be hit by Iranian missiles will be europe.
The Bastards.....
I say we task four F-15's as escort and dare anyone to shoot at them as we fly through their airspace.
moahahaa, silly americans, sometimes i wonder
what it would be like to live in a country with no culture , a rotten society and no history what so ever.
You have to have a pretty low IQ to lead a happy life in the usa.trigger happy scared smurfs.
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I do love Hitchens. He's always a great read and he's fabulous to listen to.