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Thread #58409 Message #924562
Posted By: Troll
02-Apr-03 - 12:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: Those who don't learn from history.....
Subject: RE: BS: Those who don't learn from history.....
Here ya go, fresh from The Drudge Report.
SICK French yobs daubed a swastika
and vile anti-war slurs at a cemetery for
11,000 British troops.
The showpiece cenotaph at the graveyard in Northern France was smeared
in red paint with the words: "Dig up your rubbish. It's fouling our soil."
Other slogans at the Etaples cemetery near Boulogne included "Death to the
Yankees" and "Saddam Hussein will win and spill your blood."
And the vandals wrote "Rosbeefs go home" — the French insult for Brits is
roast-beefs. Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush were
also branded war criminals.
The graffiti was discovered by a shocked gardener and spotted by around 80
visitors. It was cleaned off the same day.
Roy Hemmington — spokesman for the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission — said: "We are deeply offended. This is the strongest language
and most vile graffiti I have witnessed at a war graves cemetery.
"The suggestion that the bodies of soldiers who died for France should be
dug up is particularly foul."
Most soldiers buried at the cemetery were defending France at the Somme
and Ypres during World War I.
Another 122 are troops who died fighting the Nazis in World War II.
Among the dead are a winner of the Victoria Cross, 217 holders of the
Military Medal and 69 holders of the Military Cross.
A number had been awarded France's top military decoration, the Legion
d'Honneur.
Roy added: "Almost every British regiment has war dead here. This insults
just about the entire British Army."
Anti-British feeling has been whipped up in France since President Jacques
Chirac refused to let the UN back action against Iraq.
Last night Jim Kelleher, chief clerk to the Royal Fusiliers Association, said:
"No sane person would do this. It is a disgrace. I have family buried in
France and if I could get my hands on whoever did this I'd bury them too."
Jeremy Lillies, of the Royal British Legion, added: "It is distressing."
The Sun's Military Adviser Major-General Perkins said: "It is despicable."
Appalled local MP Jacques Lang said: "It is an attack on the memory of the
British and American soldiers who contributed to the liberation of our soil."
Police captain Thibault Martin added: "It is sick and cowardly."
The shocking news comes as a new poll reveals that a third of the French
want SADDAM to win the war. (italics mine)
A massive 78 per cent of 1,000 people in the poll by French newspaper Le
Monde disapproved of the Allied action.
But 16 per cent "really wish for" a Coalition victory — while 37 per cent said
they would prefer one.
Happy to be of service.
troll
Here ya go, fresh from The Drudge Report.