French card deck names 'most dangerous' U.S. leaders

[mad1]

cnn

"PARIS, France (AP) -- The ace of spades? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gets the honor in a new French deck of cards. President Bush is the king of diamonds and Osama bin Laden the joker."

"I found it completely indecent to present a manhunt as a game," said Thierry Meyssan, the man behind the French deck. "We thought this card game would allow us to ... explain why we consider the government of George Bush a threat to international security."

[Epidemic]

I guess an American equivelent deck for france would include 56 jokers.

[desmocat]

nahh, as soon as you open the box, they all run away..

[Epidemic]

[tmx468]

Originally posted by desmocat
nahh, as soon as you open the box, they all run away..

As opposed to the Americans, who turn up late, but then claim to be the heros who saved everyone, I suppose?

[Lemon[H]ead]

ahh come on it's only a bit of light hearted fun.

I guess an American equivelent deck for france would include 56 jokers

It would be only appropriate for said deck to include the incorrect number of cards...


pssst...there's 54 cards in a deck.

[Epidemic]

TMX,

Although I find our late arrival annoying. With out American industrial might you would be speaking German by 1941. The arms support, and material support rendered by the US was instrumental in your survival. AFAIK!

Showing up late by what, 2 years? Still fought at the zenith of German might. I do not believe that Germany was all that hurting in 1941 - 42. So being that the whole of Europe was not able to tip the scales on Germany we were the proverbial straw as it were.

I do believe that had the US not rendered military, financial, and arms aid, the whole of Europe would have collapsed.

On the French cowardice thing: WWII probably is not a great example of that. Germany's military machine was able to fight off many countries. Their blitz of France could not have been repelled even by the best troops (at their level of military preparedness). So to coin a Next Generation phrase (resistance would have been futile).

Of course you could fault France for not being prepared enough
prepared enough.

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by Lemon[H]ead
ahh come on it's only a bit of light hearted fun.


It would be only appropriate for said deck to include the incorrect number of cards...


pssst...there's 54 cards in a deck.

Not all decks. A few times I've bought decks of cards there were like 4 or 6 jokers. That makes for great games of ****** but the jokers get annoying sometimes.

Y'all know better than to use profanity around here. Bad ShawnD1! No snow-cone for you today.

-Whir, Mod O Doom

[Mike]

You could also fault the UK for not asking for U.S. support sooner. It's not like they didn't know what Hitler was planning...

[Epidemic]

At that point is history I am not sure we would have given help beyond war materials, food...