Crappy cut & paste of a lame email

[RubHer Yellow Ducky]

Right on !! Couldn't have been said any better!


THESE ARE GREAT! We sure have great representatives. A quick enjoyable
read.
> When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was
> asked
> by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an
> example of empire building' by George Bush.He answered by saying,
> "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young
> men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our
> borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in
> return is enough to bury those that did not return"
>
> It became very quiet in the room.
>
>
>
> Then there was a conference in France where a number of
> international
> engineers were taking part, including French and
> American. During a break one of
> the French engineers came back into the room saying "Have you heard
> the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft
> carrier
> to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to
> do, bomb them?"
>
> A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly:
> "Our carriers have three
> hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are
> nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore
> facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed
> 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand
> gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry
> half a
> dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to
> and
> from their flight deck.. We have eleven such ships; how many does
> France have?"
>
> Once again, dead silence.
>
>
>
> A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included
> Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian,
> Australian and French Navies. At a
> cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of
> Officers that included personnel from most of those countries.
> Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their
> drinks but a French admiral suddenly
> complained that, 'whereas Europeans learn many languages, Ameri
> cans
> learn only English.' He then asked, 'Why is it that we always
> have to
> speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?'
> Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied 'Maybe it s
> because
> the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you
> wouldn't have to speak German.'
>
> You could have heard a pin drop!
>