13 Comments, 13 Threads

1. 1. Chuck

   It’s not “French marksman”, it’s “French cocksman”.

   He’s been gone since August and they just noticed?

   October 21, 2002 - 12:25 pm   Link to this Comment

   

   
2. 2. Steve Duchame

   WOW! A shooting surrender monkey…

   October 21, 2002 - 12:42 pm   Link to this Comment

   

   
3. 3. Robert Speirs

   I heard the deserter was of Yugoslavian origin, although a French citizen. Could it be that he’s a Kosovar or Bosnian Muslim, perhaps with links to Al-Qaeda, biding his time? Sometimes the most dangerous thing you can do is to save people from certain death at the hands of the likes of Milosevic!

   October 21, 2002 - 1:39 pm   Link to this Comment

   

   
4. 4. Peter Koren

   He aims, he pulls the trigger and out pops a white flag on a stick.

   October 21, 2002 - 2:59 pm   Link to this Comment

   

   
5. 5. Walter in Denver

   The French have an ‘elite military school?’ Who knew?

   October 21, 2002 - 7:10 pm   Link to this Comment

   

   
6. 6. Bob

   This sort of reminds me of an old satirewire article.

   October 21, 2002 - 8:02 pm   Link to this Comment

   

   
7. 7. John Cole

   When I was stationed in Germany, this was my favorite French Military joke:

   Did you hear about the new French tank?

   It has twelve gears in reverse, one in forward for when attacked from behind.

   All the French soldiers I met, despite the jokes, were brave, decent, honorable, professional soldiers. The joke is still funny, though.

   October 22, 2002 - 12:25 am   Link to this Comment

   

   
8. 8. Rick

   The French (and Europeans in general) have only one redeeming quality that I can think of.They love American blues music and helped keep it alive in the 60′s and 70′s when U.S. bluesmen could’nt find an audience in the states.Luther Allison lived in Paris for years.For that I’ve gotta give them the benefit of the doubt.

   October 22, 2002 - 6:36 am   Link to this Comment

   

   
9. 9. Stephen Gordon

   For Sale: French Army surplus rifle. Never fired. Only dropped once.

   October 22, 2002 - 10:47 am   Link to this Comment

   

   
10. 10. ZipityDooDah

    “I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”

    - French Soldier, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    October 22, 2002 - 12:06 pm   Link to this Comment

    

    
11. 11. Steve Duchame

    “I drain my nasal passages at you. You tiny little wiper of other peoples bottoms”

    - French Soldier, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Great Movie….

    October 22, 2002 - 12:44 pm   Link to this Comment

    

    
12. 12. Robin Roberts

    As further proof that the French are not marksmen, when Forsyth was writing “The Day of the Jackal”, a novel about the French OAS hiring a hitman to kill Charles DeGaulle, he had to use a British national as the sniper for believability.

    October 22, 2002 - 1:57 pm   Link to this Comment

    

    
13. 13. Joe Baby

    Several French military officers were suspected of passing information to Serbs and Bosnian Serbs…I believe one was even convicted of doing so. There’s been a long connection between France and Serbia.

    So if we’re offering theories, why not an ethnic Serb who’s enacting revenge for the bombing of Belgrade?

    October 23, 2002 - 9:56 am   Link to this Comment