555wrx

True, but will they ever let us forget that fact? Also, does it give them the right to attempt to re-write the history books to make it look like that it was only them that won the wars?

Its just the American way of hype....umm, ment life.

Geezer

That is not in doubt Leslie, but support is the important word in your statement. They did not win alone. Germany would probably have been defeated by the Soviets without US aid, and the US would have taken a lot longer to defeat Japan without us and the Australians tying up a large proprtion of their forces in Burma.

It was a team effort, something which seems to have been lost on the Americans in recent years.

It won't be long before they try to re-write WWI soon!

Geezer

Brendan Hughes

Started in Bosnia - it was the Moslems' fault then!

Markus

Ah, the Americans, how we love to hate them!

I find they get very touchy if I mention Veitnam, Korea, etc to them, seems they can't accept that a very foolish decision to go to war was made by their leaders.

As for WWII, oh dear. Yes their help was, well, helpfull, but for them to keep on and on about the fact that it was them who won the war for us and we should be grateful. Let's see now, who was it that cracked the enigma code, which was somewhat important I think. Wasn't the US now was it? Whose country took a ****ing beating with air raids? Wasn't the US was it?

Where does the problem lie? Fear. They are scared of everything and everyone, and it's partly due to the media, local news reports bleating about murders everyday, putting people on edge.

There's also the whole introverted way of life, not understanding that there are places outside of the "best country in the world". The sad thing is that they believe, almost too easilly, everything they see on CNN, which is not exactly known for it's accuracy, or it's ability to report on things outside the US.

I recall being in the US when "Iraq, Part 2" kicked off. We sat and watched the news coverage on CNN, then flipped over to BBC World to see what was really going on. It made us laugh, but also worried us that people were beliving everything CNN told them. Scary.

As for 9/11, don't get me started. Face it America, the terrorists HAVE won, you ARE in terror, you've increased security to over paranoid levels, you're living in terror.

jasey

Some would say that the Americans (Leaders) want to instill fear into their people so they can invade "axis of evil" countries without any fear of losing their jobs ! We're gonna wipe out the eye-rakis, the eye-rayneeans and the si-renians mabe the http://www.cyrenians.org.uk/ should change their name before the Americans come looking for Oil ??

SJ_Skyline

I am a little bit more concerned by the fact that you can now be a practising satanist in the Royal Navy... Does this mean we are part of the axis of evil?

jasey

Hope George W's not reading this !

Did you hear about the dsylexic Devil worshipper - He sold his soul to Santa.

Time for a coat

warrenm2

Cmon Les, that support we paid for, and only finished paying in the '90s, so in effect the americans were mercenaries

Leslie

Yes Geezer I used the word "support" advisedly as you must have guessed.

There was a good bit more to it than the lease lend deal Warren.

Les

JackClark

Have we stopped paying? Didn't know that. And I'm no expert but didn't we give them rights to loads of things as well?

Dark Muppet

More proof that most Americans are uneducated can be found in that when asked "did you know the gestation period of a rhinocerous is 560 days" 68% replied no they did'nt and what did South American Animals have to do with them anyway.

SJ_Skyline

All the jet engine research IIRC.....