At 5:11 PM -0800 3/23/03, Rebecca J. Hoffman wrote: > >What a remarkably stupid idea. Perhaps we should also give the US >back to Britain, since without the military assistance we got from >France during the American Revolution, we'd still be flying the >Union Jack. Actually, the assistance that we got, came from one noble, Lafayette, and he came to help not because he was French, but because he was a Mason. Same for Von Steuben and Pulaski, German and Polish, respectively.