>>>Someone sent this to me. I can't vouch for the validity of the statements, but they seem reasonable...
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>>>AP and UPI reported that the French Government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate." The raise was precipitated by the recent fire which destroyed one of Frances' white flag factories, disabling their military.
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>>Not to mention that the French government has banned any future holiday fireworks displays over the Euro Disney amusement park -- seems that every time they have one, the French army garrison guarding critical Paris military establishments surrenders...
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>>(ducking)
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>LOL!
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>I mention only in passing that France has lost two -- count 'em, two -- wars to Italy. It doesn't get much more pathetic than that.
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>Mike

You shouldn't mock the Italian army; they had a glorious victory in Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Back in the 70's there were a lot of ex-IT army uniforms in the army surplus stores. I used to wonder why they had rubber mats sown into the knees of the pants...