WHY LEERBURG WILL NOT SELL TO FRANCE

If you want to know why I will not sell training videos or products to France you can read this short article by Andy Rooney.

If you are an American you may or may not agree with the Iraqi war - the time for discent ended when the war started. Now that it has begun it's time to support our troops.

I have long thought the best part of Frances gene pool was killed in WW1 and WW2. This has been confirmed by the French Government throught recent history.

Lets not forget that France refused to allow American military planes to fly over France to deal with Libia and Kadafi in the 1980's. After we bombed Kadafi's tent there were no more terrorist acts sponsored by the Libian Government. We lost one pilot in that raid.

In my opinion France is not worth one American's life.

ANDY ROONEY ON FRANCE

"You can't beat the French when it comes to food, fashion, wine or perfume,but they lost their license to have an opinion on world affairs years ago.They may (?) even be selling stuff to Iraq and don't want to hurt business.

The French are simply not reliable partners in a world where the good people in it ought to be working together. Americans may come off as international jerks sometimes but we're usually trying to do the right thing.

The French lost WW II to the Germans in about 20 minutes. Along with the British, we got into the war and had about 150,000 guys killed getting their country back for them. We fought all across France, and the Germans finally surrendered in a French schoolhouse.

You'd think that school building in Reims would be a great tourist attraction, but it isn't. The French seem embarrassed by it. They don't want to call attention to the fact that we freed them from German occupation.

I heard Steven Spielberg say the French wouldn't even let him film the D-day scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" on the Normandy beaches. They want people to forget the price we paid getting their country back for them.

Americans have a right to protest going to war with Iraq. The French do not. They owe us the independence they flaunt in our face at the UN.

I went into Paris with American troops the day we liberated it, Aug. 25, 1944. It was one of the great days in the history of the world. French women showered American soldiers with kisses, at the very least. The next day, the pompous Charles de Gaulle marched down the mile long Champs Elysee to the Place de la Concorde as if he had liberated France himself. I was there, squeezed in among a hundred tanks we'd given the Free French Army that we brought in with us.

When we go to Paris every couple of years now, I rent a car. I drive around the Place de la Concorde, and when some French driver blows his horn for me to get out of his way, I just smile and say to myself, "Go ahead, Pierre. Be my guest. I know something about this very place you'll never know."

The French, a third-rate power with a third-rate track record since the end of WWI, have not earned their right to oppose President Bush's plans to attack Iraq.

Here is another way to say it:

A lady bought a new Lexus, and returned to the dealer's the next day, complaining that the radio didn't work. The salesman explained that the radio was voice activated.

"Watch this!" he said...."Nelson!" The radio replied, "Ricky or Willie?" "Willie!" he continued....and "On The Road Again" came from the speakers.

She drove away happy, and for the next few days, every time she'd say, "Beethoven", she'd get beautiful classical music, and if she said, "Beatles!" she'd get one of theirs.

One day, another driver ran a red light and nearly creamed her new car, but she swerved in time to avoid him.

"ASSHOLE!" she yelled..... The French National Anthem began to play.

Here is another good idea:

An American, a Dutchman and a Frenchman are all in Saudi Arabia, sharing a smuggled crate of booze when, all of a sudden, Saudi police rush in and arrest them. The mere possession of alcohol is a severe offense in Saudi Arabia, so for the terrible crime of actually being caught consuming the booze, they are all sentenced to death!

However, after many months and with the help of very good lawyers, they are able to successfully appeal their sentences down to life imprisonment. By a stroke of luck, it was a Saudi national holiday the day their trial finished, and the extremely benevolent Sheikh decided they could be released after receiving just 20 lashes each of the whip.

As they were preparing for their punishment, the Sheikh announced: "It's my first wife's birthday today, and she has asked me to allow each of you one wish before your whipping."

The Dutchman was first in line, he thought for a while and then said:
" Please tie a pillow to my back."

This was done, but the pillow only lasted 10 lashes before the whip went through. When the punishment was done he had to be carried away bleeding and crying with pain.The Frenchman was next up.

After watching the Dutchman in horror he said smugly: "Please fix two pillows to my back." But even two pillows could only take 15 lashes before the whip went through again and the Frenchman was soon led away whimpering loudly (as they do).

The American was the last one up, but before he could say anything, the Sheikh turned to him and said: "You are from a most beautiful part of the world and your culture is one of the finest in the world. For this, you may have two wishes!"

"Thank you, your Most Royal and Merciful highness," the American replied.
"In recognition of your kindness, my first wish is that you give me not 20, but 100 lashes."

"Not only are you an honourable, handsome and powerful man, you are also very brave." The Sheikh said with an admiring look on his face. "If 100 lashes is what you desire, then so be it. "And your second wish, what is it to be?" the Sheikh asked.

The American replied: "Tie the Frenchman to my back."

CUTSOMER COMMENTS:

Ed,

Over the past several years the "dog world" has become more and more of my life. I am at the point now where I am considering entering into the training world professionally. I wanted to let you know personally that I have purchased from many distributors/kennels etc. in the past. However, after reading your comments regarding the French (as well as the training articles where you do a very good job of not totally loosing it on some of these morons).........................................................every penny I spend on dog related supplies, books, or whatever will go to you! How many times do you have to save a country's ass to get just a little gratitude?

Bryan
Boston MA

Here is an excellent post taken from a Marine Lt. off my web discussion board

As an officer and gentleman, I will make every attempt to confine my remarks to those suitable for expression in mixed company.

I have this to say about the French:

General Pershing once said-of America's soldiers, sailors and Marines-that "time will not dim the glory of their deeds." Truer words were never spoken. No small coincidence that Gen. Pershing was the first commissioner of the agency formed to care for the graves of Americans who gave their lives in service to their country.

But the French have long since forgotten. Twice in the 20th century, defense of the French took our boys to Europe. There, in cold and windswept places like Bellau Wood and Brittany, Aisne-Marne and Epinal, they gave their lives that others should not perish and suffer under the hand of a tyrant, Adolph Hitler.

60,510 are still buried in France alone. 7,063 are still missing. 334,324 were returned to America to rest in peace on native soil.

But for these gallant men, there would be no France; no Europe, as we know it. So when the French engage in a targeted campaign over several decades which seeks to sabotage the international efforts of the United States, they denigrate not only themselves, but the gift their liberators gave them.

They left us to finish a fight they started after getting whipped clean and senseless at Dien Bien Phu. In 1986 they refused airspace to U.S. planes en route to combat another terrorist, Quaddafi. They have repeatedly undermined U.S. efforts in the middle east to stabilize the region, including their ongoing arms trade with several nations therein. And as salt in the wound, they offered military support in the event that Hussein were to use chemical or biological weapons against U.S. forces in Iraq. These are but a few examples of the traitorous and graceless nature of the fickle French national sense of loyalty.

As Gen. Patton once said, "I'd rather have a German division in front of me that a French one behind me." (By the way, Patton died defending Europe, too.)

While I save for another day the question of whether it is wise to have a Frenchman anywhere in your general vicinity, I will say that I am deeply saddened by this betrayal. I will also refuse to participate in any economically-beneficial relationship with any French organization.

I will not eat French cheese, nor drink their wine; these are symbols of a dead culture brimming with the ungrateful souls of selfish animals who are in the business of squandering the gift of life. A gift secured to them by the supreme sacrifice of my brothers in arms.

Let them rant and demonstrate. Such foolishness serves only to prove the blackness of their hearts, the marginal quality of their leadership, and their lame-duck role in European governance. But what their actions cannot do-under any set of circumstances-is darken the brilliance of those patriots who died, or lessen the debt that must now be paid.

To those that went before me, I thank you from the very bottom of my heart. To the French who refuse to do the same-well, even a cursory review of French military history shows the wisdom of your restraint. If you joined the fight, we'd just have to bail you out anyway. And we have other things to do right now.

Oh, and if you hear a rumble in the night, a quaking of earth mixed with a mournful groan, it's the sound of 60,510 heroes turning over in their graves.

God Bless America.

2nd Lt. Iain D. Pedden, USMC