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.
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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 bags....When does
the next concorde leave?
----- Original Message -----
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 teach them a lesson for not supporting
the Bush killing machine. Have Bush and his administration
forgot that the cemetary in which the dead are buried in 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.
Article
published Mar 13, 2003 A Slap at France, Brown-Waite's Bill Would Bring the
Boys Home
By
Cory ReissLedger Washington
Bureau
WASHINGTON -- 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
Commission, which is in charge of overseas cemeteries, were not
returned.
The American Legion, which supports the Bush
administration's position on Iraq, wouldn't give an opinion about the
bill.
A spokesman would only say: "This is a legislative byproduct of
French and Belgian recalcitrance."
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