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blueinindiana

(606 posts)
Fri Nov 20, 2015, 02:21 PM Nov 2015

I thought France was a surrender monkey? Freedom Fries anyone?

I find it ironic how so many conservatives are rallying around France, yet when France refused to join the Iraq invasion fiasco they were conceived as surrender monkeys and scoffed at as being weak. Now, we must send boots on the ground! Boots on the ground! Which is exactly what ISIS wants.

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I thought France was a surrender monkey? Freedom Fries anyone? (Original Post) blueinindiana Nov 2015 OP
It's never been more fun to laugh at the "surrender monkey" morons. Lizzie Poppet Nov 2015 #1
I say we should stop eating Brussels sprouts............. Ernesto Nov 2015 #2
How about Bravery Sprouts? Glassunion Nov 2015 #3
. ScreamingMeemie Nov 2015 #5
We spent years shitting on the French.. Remember John Kerry "looks French"? SomethingFishy Nov 2015 #4
'Cheese-eating surrender monkeys' was a Simpsons snark airing six years before '911' Brother Buzz Nov 2015 #6
France has been stacking up brown bodies for decades mwrguy Nov 2015 #7
 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
1. It's never been more fun to laugh at the "surrender monkey" morons.
Fri Nov 20, 2015, 02:28 PM
Nov 2015

I mean, it's always been pretty fun to ridicule those ignoramuses (France actually has one of the world's most successful military histories), but them adding a big dose of hypocrisy to the mix just makes it more satisfying.

Ernesto

(5,077 posts)
2. I say we should stop eating Brussels sprouts.............
Fri Nov 20, 2015, 02:31 PM
Nov 2015

Cause the some of the bad guys lived in Belgium!

Brother Buzz

(36,449 posts)
6. 'Cheese-eating surrender monkeys' was a Simpsons snark airing six years before '911'
Fri Nov 20, 2015, 03:54 PM
Nov 2015
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