The Keapernic of female soccer

[dilbert firestorm]

wow.. this thread really went off the rails and offtopic with WWI.


this thread is about Megan Rapinoe and we're discussing WWI???? LOL!

[Little Monster]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

The facts say you're an inveterate liar.

The fact is the war started in 1914 and America pussied out until 1917. FACT.

[Little Monster]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

wow.. this thread really went off the rails and offtopic with WWI.


this thread is about Megan Rapinoe and we're discussing WWI???? LOL!

It's I B's fault.

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by Little Monster

The fact is the war started in 1914 and America pussied out until 1917. FACT.

1915 is not 1917. The facts say you're an inveterate liar.

Originally Posted by Little Monster

It's I B's fault.

You're an inveterate liar.

[Little Monster]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

1915 is not 1917. The facts say you're an inveterate liar.







You're an inveterate liar.

You are making up your own facts, which makes a completely inveterate liar.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/ja...azz_wwi_1.html

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by Little Monster

You are making up your own facts, which makes a completely inveterate liar.

Americans were in France fighting against the Germans in 1915. You lie when you claim they weren't.

[oeb11]

IBH - the image of the American Indian in a war bonnet with 'Swastika" - Please clarify source and intent of the image. Posted first with the Lafayette Escadrille image by You.

I admit- it confuses me.

Thank You, Sir.

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by oeb11

IBH - the image of the American Indian in a war bonnet with 'Swastika" - Please clarify source and intent of the image. Posted first with the Lafayette Escadrille image by You.

I admit- it confuses me.

Thank You, Sir.

WWI -- pre-Nazi.

Lafayette Escadrille

[FriscoKiddo]

There were no American troops fighting in Europe in 1915....America was woefully unprepared for war in 1915...The National Defense Act of 1916 got it's kick in the ass from Pancho Villa's attack in New Mexico...by then America was leaning into war because of German submarine activity...Wilson was a devout pacifist...and won re-election in 1916 under the slogan "He kept us out of the war"....not fair to say America "pussied out"...it wasn't an American war serving American interests....it would be like saying England "pussied out" of Grenada or Panama.

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by FriscoKiddo

There were no American troops fighting in Europe in 1915....America was woefully unprepared for war in 1915...The National Defense Act of 1916 got it's kick in the ass from Pancho Villa's attack in New Mexico...by then America was leaning into war because of German submarine activity...Wilson was a devout pacifist...and won re-election in 1916 under the slogan "He kept us out of the war"....not fair to say America "pussied out"...it wasn't an American war serving American interests....it would be like saying England "pussied out" of Grenada or Panama.

The Lafayette Escadrille was entirely comprised of Americans, and they sure as hell were fighting. The first such Americans enlisted in the service on 9 March 1915. Meanwhile, scores of Americans were killed on the torpedoed Lusitania as the Lusitania transported nearly half-a-million American manufactured rounds of rifle ammunition for British use during the war. Americans were very much involved in the war, and without American involvement, the Tommies and Poilus wouldn't have had food and war materiel enough to fight the war as long as they did.

[oeb11]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

WWI -- pre-Nazi.

Lafayette Escadrille

Thank you, Sir.
The swastika history goes back many centuries - even to India.
Until Hitler adopted it for a symbol of horror.
It did not have the same meaning pre 1930's.

[oeb11]

Gentleman - in providing Facts to LM, an image comes to my mind.

Not to cast personal aspersions.


Casting pearls before Swine.

It is impossible to educate those who refuse any idea not consistent with their own DPST narrative, history revisionism, and DPST Racism.


From a DPST poster - "Stupidity is only curable with a bullet to the brain." One could only wish.

Typical of regimes such as National Socialists in Germany, and Communists in Russia - the answer to dissent for DPST regimes.

[FriscoKiddo]

The La Fayette Escadrille (French: Escadrille de La Fayette) was a U.S. unit constituted in 1916 under French command, made up of volunteers who came forward to fight for France during World War I. The escadrille of the Aéronautique Militaire was composed largely of American volunteer pilots flying fighters. It was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War.(-Wiki)

There were no United States Department of Defense soldiers or sailors enlisted or commissioned for the war in 1915 or 1916....being the arsenal of democracy is NOT the same as fighting in a war...it's like selling or loaning your friend a knife and gun as he heads out for a brawl.

[I B Hankering]

Originally Posted by FriscoKiddo

The La Fayette Escadrille (French: Escadrille de La Fayette) was a U.S. unit constituted in 1916 under French command, made up of volunteers who came forward to fight for France during World War I. The escadrille of the Aéronautique Militaire was composed largely of American volunteer pilots flying fighters. It was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolutionary War.(-Wiki)

There were no United States Department of Defense soldiers or sailors enlisted or commissioned for the war in 1915 or 1916....being the arsenal of democracy is NOT the same as fighting in a war...it's like selling or loaning your friend a knife and gun as he heads out for a brawl.

Never argued they were anything other than American, which you just confirmed, and the book I cited -- which you didn't fucking read -- factually established the first American flyers enlisted in 1915.

[FriscoKiddo]

Im sorry I made an assumption that was incorrect. I was under the impression you were implying this was an active US policy and DoD run (supply/chain of command/funded/etc) involvement in the war....these guys were not on the US military payroll....so "US unit" is kind of a misnomer...no US uniforms....not fighting under the American flag....no US commanders, etc......"US unit" here implies something more akin to American mercenaries. Didn't mean to piss anyone off.