re:A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys Home
Seems this Brown-Waite misses the point that the warhawks are proposing for this bout to bury the boys in mass graves in Iraq, or send home a portion of ashes from mas incineration, if they even admit your son/father/brother... was killed on this crusade for world dictatorship. AAAHHHAAHAHAHAHA.RE-ANIMATE? GOOD ONE.The idea of turning french fries into freedom fries has about the effect of when americans boycotted chinese restuarants here when the chinese captured our spy plane several years back. So what about all the Americans who think the french are doing the right thing? Will she want to ship them to france or belgium? I am going to pack my bagsWhen does the next concorde leave? - Original Message - From: jeani To: The Power Hour List Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 5:58 PM Subject: A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys Home Has she lost her freaking mind? Did she forget to put her brain back into the top of her cranium when she took it out last night? What a sick, perverted political ghoul. She wants to exhume 56,000 bodies from France and another 13,000 from Belgium to teachthem a lesson for not supporting the Bush killing machine.HaveBush and his administration forgot that the cemetary in which the deadare buriedin France and Belgium was given to the US by them. What does she plan to do with the remains? Reanimate them to recite the Pledge of Allegiance 24/7. http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2003303130388Profile=""> Article published Mar 13, 2003A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys HomeBy Cory ReissLedger Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- America's relationship with France is about to hit a new low.Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, is writing legislation that would encourage the exhumation and return of American war dead buried in France and Belgium. She expects to introduce the legislation today out of frustration with those countries' opposition to a war in Iraq."Many people visit the graves of their parents and grandparents who served in World War I and World War II and are buried in France and Belgium," said Brown-Waite, whose district includes a portion of Polk County north of Interstate 4 between State Road 33 on the east and the Hillsborough County line on the west. "The question becomes, `Should we continue to support their eco-nomy when the French government has turned their back on us?' "Many Americans are boycotting French wine and cheese for the same reason. A House Republican leader Tuesday banned the word "French" from the chamber's cafeteria menus, turning french fries and French toast into freedom fries and freedom toast.The culinary censorship has earned laughs from talk-show audiences, but the mothers of several soldiers killed in combat groaned at the idea that people might dig up soldiers after so long because of this feud."After all these years -- to me, when a person is buried, it's sacred ground," said Dorothy Oxendine, president of American Gold Star Mothers, whose members have lost children in combat. Oxendine's son was killed in Vietnam in 1968.Brown-Waite's bill would require the Department of Defense to exhume and return the bodies on request by a qualified family member. The soldiers could be buried at a national cemetery or, if the family wishes, turned over for private burial.Ken Graham, 65, sparked the legislation two weeks ago when he approached Brown-Waite at a rally in Florida and told her he wanted to bring his father home. Melborn Graham was killed fighting in France in 1944 and buried in Alsace-Lorraine. Graham, who was 7 when the telegram announcing his father's death arrived at their home in Enterprise, Ala., has never been to the cemetery.He said he has always thought it was wrong that Americans were left overseas instead of brought home. Over the years, he said, French policy has caused his frustration to mount, boiling over with France's position on Iraq. He said anti-Americanism has made France an unfit place for American soldiers who fought there."I'm really upset," said Graham, who lives in Hernando County. "It's just not true that they're buried in an honorable place over there."More than 56,000 Americans are buried in France and more than 13,000 in Belgium from both world wars. A frequent complaint about the French position on Iraq is that the traditional ally has forgotten that America lost so many lives fighting for France.Brown-Waite said she didn't know if many people would ask for the exhumations if her bill were to pass. "But I do believe we should give them the opportunity. . . . It'll send a loud and clear message."A spokeswoman for the French embassy said repatri
Re: A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys Home
I called Miss Ginny's Washington DC office yesterday. I talked to her idiot assistant and read him the riot act and told him to tell his birdbrained boss that our fallen heros already are at home. Our military cemetaries in France are sovereign United States property, justthe same as all of our embassies. The French citizens maintain our veteran's cemetaries better than we do here in our own country. The French have the highest respect for those soldiers.Our French veteran'scemetariesare beautifully landscaped and magnificently manicured, the grass looks as though it was combed by hand. The French schoolchildren are assigned individual graves and every year on June 6th they place flowers on every single grave and there are literally tens of thousands of them. All of us have relatives buried overseas if you go back far enough. Are we going dig up all of our ancestors also? Leave it to a sleazy politician to use our dead war heros in some cheap attempt to garner publicity. Some Americans think we should adopt an isolationist policy toward the rest of the world. It's funny how much the rest of the world agrees with them. Has anyone suggested a bill to ship back the Statue of Liberty? Or sell back the former Louisiana Territory? Or stop teaching French in schools? Or boycotting Blockbuster until they alter titles like: The French Connection? Ginny Brown-Waite is a freshman, or junior, representative in Congress and she is already a member of the House Veterans Committee. She is culpable for the state of our VA hospitals and the way our government treatsour veterans with intentional indifference. Thefact that we have homeless veterans in the United States of America is a national scandal and disgrace. Maybe France should pass a bill to bring home the Statue of Liberty, and then help hand the US back to the British Empire. One thing that people tend to miss in this whole debate is that France,remembers better than many, and certainly better than America, what war means andunderstands the devastation of losing an entire generation of young men; knows the pain of burying their dead and rebuilding their towns; knows what it's like to have an enemy who wants nothing better than to see you fall. Maybe this is why France is loath to pave a path to war; not because they want to "take a stand" against America or have any personal vendetta against anyone, but because they better than anyone know what war means, and want to prevent it if at all possible. I don't know why some people can't grasp the concept that some one can actually hold twoindependent ideas at the same time about something. Yes, it's possible for the French to respect America for its assistance in WWII and at the same time oppose the invasion of Iraq. Just as, if a person had anyintelligence whatsoever,they should be able to respect Frances' assistance to America in the Revolutionary War andunderstand France's current position regarding Iraq and not act like little childrenthrowing temper tantrums because some one else disagrees with them. President Chirac's efforts to find a way to disarm Saddam without getting American troops killed is not an act of effrontery or hatred toward the United States. What if France decided they wanted to oust the regime in Saudi Arabia? They're not exactly paragons in their treatment of their own people. Suppose France decided they were going to invade Saudi Arabia and install a new government. Would we jump right in and lend a hand or would we say "wait, let's think this thing over first."? So why should we expect other countries to jump to our whims? Just because George W. Bush says so? France doesn't want to start another war. So what. Neither does 90% of the rest of the world right want to start another war. We're sure showing France a thing or two! First we rename our junk and breakfastfood and now we're going to take backall our dead people. I sure hope this teaches them a lesson. This country is full of idiotic five-year-olds masquerading as Congressional representatives. I hope someone is keepinga recordof all this stupidity. Let this be the last term these children serve. Is it anywonder why other people hate the Unites States when we have crackpot lunatics like Miss Ginny in Congress??? I encourage everyone to call, write or fax Miss Ginny and express their feelingsabout her proposed legislation! Astro Web Site: www.house.gov/brown-waiteE-mail: Contact Via 'Write Your Rep.'Washington Office1516 Longworth House Office BuildingWashington, D.C. 20515-0905Phone: (202) 225-1002Fax: (202) 226-6559 Main District Office38008 Meridian Ave.Dade City, FL 33526Phone: (352) 567-6707Fax: (352) 567-6259 BrooksvillePhone: (352) 799-8354Fax: (352) 799-8776Address:20 North Main St., Rm. 200Brooksville, FL 34601
Re: re:A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys Home
The people in Ginny Brown-Waite's district were disfranchised in the last election. They were given the choice between incumbent Karen Thurman and Brown-Waite. Do you prefer hanging or electrocution? Thurman never met a piece of legislation with a severe port list that she did not like. Brown-Waite left her brain in the hustings when she went to join the other denizens of the District of Criminals. Do not think it will slow Dubya down, but here is hoping France veto's any positive vote for Juniors war against the innocents in Iraq. And if I drank this would be an excellent time for a bottle of FRENCH WINE. - Original Message - From: Tom Kearse To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 10:25 AM Subject: re:A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys Home Seems this Brown-Waite misses the point that the warhawks are proposing for this bout to bury the boys in mass graves in Iraq, or send home a portion of ashes from mas incineration, if they even admit your son/father/brother... was killed on this crusade for world dictatorship. AAAHHHAAHAHAHAHA.RE-ANIMATE? GOOD ONE.The idea of turning french fries into freedom fries has about the effect of when americans boycotted chinese restuarants here when the chinese captured our spy plane several years back. So what about all the Americans who think the french are doing the right thing? Will she want to ship them to france or belgium? I am going to pack my bagsWhen does the next concorde leave? - Original Message - From: jeani To: The Power Hour List Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 5:58 PM Subject: A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys Home Has she lost her freaking mind? Did she forget to put her brain back into the top of her cranium when she took it out last night? What a sick, perverted political ghoul. She wants to exhume 56,000 bodies from France and another 13,000 from Belgium to teachthem a lesson for not supporting the Bush killing machine.HaveBush and his administration forgot that the cemetary in which the deadare buriedin France and Belgium was given to the US by them. What does she plan to do with the remains? Reanimate them to recite the Pledge of Allegiance 24/7. http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2003303130388Profile=""> Article published Mar 13, 2003A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys HomeBy Cory ReissLedger Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- America's relationship with France is about to hit a new low.Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, is writing legislation that would encourage the exhumation and return of American war dead buried in France and Belgium. She expects to introduce the legislation today out of frustration with those countries' opposition to a war in Iraq."Many people visit the graves of their parents and grandparents who served in World War I and World War II and are buried in France and Belgium," said Brown-Waite, whose district includes a portion of Polk County north of Interstate 4 between State Road 33 on the east and the Hillsborough County line on the west. "The question becomes, `Should we continue to support their eco-nomy when the French government has turned their back on us?' "Many Americans are boycotting French wine and cheese for the same reason. A House Republican leader Tuesday banned the word "French" from the chamber's cafeteria menus, turning french fries and French toast into freedom fries and freedom toast.The culinary censorship has earned laughs from talk-show audiences, but the mothers of several soldiers killed in combat groaned at the idea that people might dig up soldiers after so long because of this feud."After all these years -- to me, when a person is buried, it's sacred ground," said Dorothy Oxendine, president of American Gold Star Mothers, whose members have lost children in combat. Oxendine's son was killed in Vietnam in 1968.Brown-Waite's bill would require the Department of Defense to exhume and return the bodies on request by a qualified family member. The soldiers could be buried at a national cemetery or, if the family wishes, turned over for private burial.Ken Graham, 65, sparked the legislation two weeks ago when he approached Brown-Waite at a rally in Florida and told her he wanted to bring his father home. Melborn Graham was killed fighting in France in 1944 and buried in Alsace-Lorraine. Graham, who was 7 when the telegram announcing his father's death arrived at their home in Enterprise, Ala., has never been to the cemetery.He said he has always thought it was
A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys Home
Has she lost her freaking mind? Did she forget to put her brain back into the top of her cranium when she took it out last night? What a sick, perverted political ghoul. She wants to exhume 56,000 bodies from France and another 13,000 from Belgium to teachthem a lesson for not supporting the Bush killing machine.HaveBush and his administration forgot that the cemetary in which the deadare buriedin France and Belgium was given to the US by them. What does she plan to do with the remains? Reanimate them to recite the Pledge of Allegiance 24/7. http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2003303130388Profile=""> Article published Mar 13, 2003A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys HomeBy Cory ReissLedger Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- America's relationship with France is about to hit a new low.Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, is writing legislation that would encourage the exhumation and return of American war dead buried in France and Belgium. She expects to introduce the legislation today out of frustration with those countries' opposition to a war in Iraq."Many people visit the graves of their parents and grandparents who served in World War I and World War II and are buried in France and Belgium," said Brown-Waite, whose district includes a portion of Polk County north of Interstate 4 between State Road 33 on the east and the Hillsborough County line on the west. "The question becomes, `Should we continue to support their eco-nomy when the French government has turned their back on us?' "Many Americans are boycotting French wine and cheese for the same reason. A House Republican leader Tuesday banned the word "French" from the chamber's cafeteria menus, turning french fries and French toast into freedom fries and freedom toast.The culinary censorship has earned laughs from talk-show audiences, but the mothers of several soldiers killed in combat groaned at the idea that people might dig up soldiers after so long because of this feud."After all these years -- to me, when a person is buried, it's sacred ground," said Dorothy Oxendine, president of American Gold Star Mothers, whose members have lost children in combat. Oxendine's son was killed in Vietnam in 1968.Brown-Waite's bill would require the Department of Defense to exhume and return the bodies on request by a qualified family member. The soldiers could be buried at a national cemetery or, if the family wishes, turned over for private burial.Ken Graham, 65, sparked the legislation two weeks ago when he approached Brown-Waite at a rally in Florida and told her he wanted to bring his father home. Melborn Graham was killed fighting in France in 1944 and buried in Alsace-Lorraine. Graham, who was 7 when the telegram announcing his father's death arrived at their home in Enterprise, Ala., has never been to the cemetery.He said he has always thought it was wrong that Americans were left overseas instead of brought home. Over the years, he said, French policy has caused his frustration to mount, boiling over with France's position on Iraq. He said anti-Americanism has made France an unfit place for American soldiers who fought there."I'm really upset," said Graham, who lives in Hernando County. "It's just not true that they're buried in an honorable place over there."More than 56,000 Americans are buried in France and more than 13,000 in Belgium from both world wars. A frequent complaint about the French position on Iraq is that the traditional ally has forgotten that America lost so many lives fighting for France.Brown-Waite said she didn't know if many people would ask for the exhumations if her bill were to pass. "But I do believe we should give them the opportunity. . . . It'll send a loud and clear message."A spokeswoman for the French embassy said repatriation of American soldiers would take this dispute to a far different level than renaming french fries on Capitol Hill."The french fries, it's a joke," said Agnes von der Muhll, the embassy spokeswoman. "If the other thing would happen, it would be very, very sad. We didn't forget. We will never forget what contribution America made to our peace and security."Asked whether she is angry with France, Brown-Waite said, "I am certainly not going out and buying any French designer clothes, I'll tell you that right now, nor drinking French wine."Frank Fogner, a Vietnam veteran from Little River, S.C., was patrolling the halls of Congress on Wednesday to observe budget hearings. He said the United States should cut or reduce financial assistance to any country that opposes the war and denounced France in particular. Asked whether American soldiers should be exhumed over this, he shifted his weight uncomfortably."There is such a thing as too extreme," he said.It's not clear if the government would relocate bodies if asked without the legislation. Messages left with the American Battle Monuments
Re: A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys Home
AAAHHHAAHAHAHAHA.RE-ANIMATE? GOOD ONE.The idea of turning french fries into freedom fries has about the effect of when americans boycotted chinese restuarants here when the chinese captured our spy plane several years back. So what about all the Americans who think the french are doing the right thing? Will she want to ship them to france or belgium? I am going to pack my bagsWhen does the next concorde leave? - Original Message - From: jeani To: The Power Hour List Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 5:58 PM Subject: A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys Home Has she lost her freaking mind? Did she forget to put her brain back into the top of her cranium when she took it out last night? What a sick, perverted political ghoul. She wants to exhume 56,000 bodies from France and another 13,000 from Belgium to teachthem a lesson for not supporting the Bush killing machine.HaveBush and his administration forgot that the cemetary in which the deadare buriedin France and Belgium was given to the US by them. What does she plan to do with the remains? Reanimate them to recite the Pledge of Allegiance 24/7. http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2003303130388Profile=""> Article published Mar 13, 2003A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the Boys HomeBy Cory ReissLedger Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- America's relationship with France is about to hit a new low.Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Brooksville, is writing legislation that would encourage the exhumation and return of American war dead buried in France and Belgium. She expects to introduce the legislation today out of frustration with those countries' opposition to a war in Iraq."Many people visit the graves of their parents and grandparents who served in World War I and World War II and are buried in France and Belgium," said Brown-Waite, whose district includes a portion of Polk County north of Interstate 4 between State Road 33 on the east and the Hillsborough County line on the west. "The question becomes, `Should we continue to support their eco-nomy when the French government has turned their back on us?' "Many Americans are boycotting French wine and cheese for the same reason. A House Republican leader Tuesday banned the word "French" from the chamber's cafeteria menus, turning french fries and French toast into freedom fries and freedom toast.The culinary censorship has earned laughs from talk-show audiences, but the mothers of several soldiers killed in combat groaned at the idea that people might dig up soldiers after so long because of this feud."After all these years -- to me, when a person is buried, it's sacred ground," said Dorothy Oxendine, president of American Gold Star Mothers, whose members have lost children in combat. Oxendine's son was killed in Vietnam in 1968.Brown-Waite's bill would require the Department of Defense to exhume and return the bodies on request by a qualified family member. The soldiers could be buried at a national cemetery or, if the family wishes, turned over for private burial.Ken Graham, 65, sparked the legislation two weeks ago when he approached Brown-Waite at a rally in Florida and told her he wanted to bring his father home. Melborn Graham was killed fighting in France in 1944 and buried in Alsace-Lorraine. Graham, who was 7 when the telegram announcing his father's death arrived at their home in Enterprise, Ala., has never been to the cemetery.He said he has always thought it was wrong that Americans were left overseas instead of brought home. Over the years, he said, French policy has caused his frustration to mount, boiling over with France's position on Iraq. He said anti-Americanism has made France an unfit place for American soldiers who fought there."I'm really upset," said Graham, who lives in Hernando County. "It's just not true that they're buried in an honorable place over there."More than 56,000 Americans are buried in France and more than 13,000 in Belgium from both world wars. A frequent complaint about the French position on Iraq is that the traditional ally has forgotten that America lost so many lives fighting for France.Brown-Waite said she didn't know if many people would ask for the exhumations if her bill were to pass. "But I do believe we should give them the opportunity. . . . It'll send a loud and clear message."A spokeswoman for the French embassy said repatriation of American soldiers would take this dispute to a far different level than renaming french fries on Capitol Hill."The french fries, it's a joke," said Agnes von der Muhll, the embassy spokeswoman. "If the other thing would happen, it would be ver
