On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:12:45 GMT, micheil@shaw.ca (Michil$(D??(Bn) wrote:

>On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 06:21:21 +0900, Ernest Schaal
><eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
>
>>in article 41a4e552.16329760@news, Michil$(D??(Bn at micheil@shaw.ca wrote on
>>11/25/04 4:51 AM:
>>
>>> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:46:20 +0900, Raj Feridun
>>> <rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Yes, I know. Canadian soldiers fought in the great wars right
>>>> alongside the Americans as did the Australians. I appreciate that very
>>>> much, thank you.
>>>> 
>>>> Raj
>>> 
>>> What an insult to our allies! Your soldiers didn't appear on the
>>> battlefield until the last year of the war, which had started three
>>> years earlier. The Canadians and Australians didn't fight alongside
>>> Americans; the Americans crept in at the last minute and as can be
>>> seen in your post, tried to cream off the glory.
>>
>>I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you knew that the
>>US entered the battlefield in WW II a lot earlier than one year (try four
>>years) and WWII lasted a lot longer than four years (fifteen years in Asia,
>>six years in Europe). Therefore, I will assume that you are talking only of
>>WWI (The Great War).
>
>I don't need the benefit of your doubt, you pretentious fuckwit.
>Unlike you, I lived through WWII. 

Right, we heard that you and some other young children were evacuated to
Skye.

>I don't need you to tell me when it
>started and ended, especially as half my family were already dead or
>permanently crippled before your third rate military even crossed the
>Atlantic, where it immediately disgraced itself by letting the Germans
>totally hammer them at Kasserine in North Africa.
>
>That was when we started referring to the Americans as "Our Italians".

Who is this rhetorical "we"?  Are you trying to make it sound like you were
actually there, with the British troops, in the thick of the fighting?

>The popular catchphrase about what was wrong with the Americans was
>that they were "overpaid, oversexed and over here!"

Perhaps we should start a thread to examine the character and disastrous
tactics of Field Marshal Montgomery.

MacHamish M$(D??(Br