Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Biographics" channel.

  1. De Gaulle was quite the self serving jerk. Before D-Day, he told Eisenhower that he was uncomfortable about having "foreign" troops on French soil. I guess he didn't think the Nazis weren't foreigners. Canadian troops were among those landing in Normandy on D-Day. De Gaulle showed his appreciation for their sacrifice in 1967, by shouting in a speech in Montreal. "Viva le Quebec Libre" which translates as "Long live free Quebec!". Apparently, the fact that Quebec was against fighting in the war and French Quebec stood strongly against the draft in WW2. Canadians died to free France so he could one day be their President but he stuck his nose into Canadian politics and attempted to break up our country. He's no hero to Canadians. As far as we're concerned he's a back stabbing jerk.
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  2. I think she said this because of the backlash from those who thought she shouldn't be in science because she was a woman. They weren't interested in facts or truth. They just wanted to discredit her and that's not science.
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  3. It is ruled as a fabrication. That's a lot different than a forgery.
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  4.  @Froggmeningreen  Who said they were all fighting to save France? I never said that. The allies landed in Normandy to defeat Germany. One of the countries benefiting from that effort was France, unless you believe the French liked being under German rule. My parents were kids in the Netherlands at the time and the Dutch hated the Nazis and are exceptionally grateful for the efforts of the allies to help defeat Germany. Without the landing in Normandy, Germany could have put a much larger effort into beating the Soviets. However, they had to fight on 2 fronts, 3 actually if you include the allies coming from the south, through Italy, as well. France and De Gaulle benefited from the Allied initiative. A lot of Canadian soldiers died in France so that they could be rid of Germans. All of Europe benefited due to the Allied invasion, especially the western nations, including France.
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  5.  @DidierDidier-kc4nm  Still has nothing to do with what he said to Eisenhower before D-day or his blatant interference in Canadian politics. Roosevelt and De Gaulle didn't like each other. That happens. People don't like one another. However, Roosevelt is NOT the president of Canada and De Gaulle had no business interfering in Canadian politics. Canadians died on French soil and it helped to gain France back it's independence from Germany. Nice way to say "Thanks Canada" Another reason why Canadians are resentful of De Gaulle is that he didn't attend the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, which was a defining moment for the Canadian military. 3600 Canadians died in that battle and 7000 were wounded. The least De Gaulle could have done was attend a ceremony of an ally in WW1. Not De Gaulle, though. Another example of his aloofness and lack of any appreciation of anything not French.
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  6.  @DidierDidier-kc4nm  My problem is with De Gaulle. I've said that clearly in my first comment. If others have problems with how the French are treated, that has nothing to do with me. It was De Gaulle that told Eisenhower that he was uncomfortable with foreign troops in France before D-Day, in spite of the fact the Allies were on his side and German troops were already there and it was De Gaulle that said "Vive le Quebec Libre" on Canadian soil and meddling in Canadian affairs. De Gaulle is an ungrateful and backstabbing jerk. That's the point I was making. If the rest of the French people are like that, maybe they deserve the criticism they get.
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  7.  @ponytoast1231  Yet, when the 13 Colonies fought for independence from the British, a mere 14 years after Quebec was ceded to the British, the Quebec colony wanted to remain with the British. Life for the average person in Quebec was BETTER under the British than it was under the French and they didn't want things to change. What in the world does De Gaulle have to do with Canada backstabbing Quebec, anyway. Quebec hadn't been a part of France for 204 years when he said "Vive le Quebec libre". They didn't back-stab De Gaulle. It was Canadian soldiers that died so that ingrate could come back to France and become it's ruler. It was none of his business. Worse, there were terrorist groups setting off letter bombs and 3 years later the FLQ, one of these terrorist groups, kidnapped a British diplomat and a Quebecois politician, Pierre Laporte, and murdering him. I suppose that you think that was deserving as well. Quebecois terrorists killing a fellow Quebecois. British imperialism....that's how you describe WW2. The Nazis invaded Poland, then Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belguim and FRANCE. De Gaulle had to flee to the hated imperialist Britain so he could rule France in absentia. Of all the convoluted logic I've ever heard, this takes the cake. The imperialist British, gave De Gaulle refuge and then helped him to get his country back so he could be the president of France....IN FRANCE. That's the stupidest imperialism that I've ever heard of. And guess who didn't want to help De Gaulle get his country back. The Quebecois. They could care less if France ever got from under the Nazi yoke. As far as they were concerned, De Gaulle could rot, hiding in England. It was the rest of Canada that was willing to fight to defeat the Nazis, not Quebec, and without the help of the Canadians, British, Americans and others, France would have remained under the thumb of the Nazi dominated Vichy government. The French would have really loved that. They were still smarting from the way the Franco/Prussian war ended that unified all the German states. Your entire comment is whacked.
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