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| 2004-03-19 |
| (Hat tip - LGF) The world is a more dangerous place because of the US-led war in Iraq, which may have toppled Saddam Hussein but also unleashed postwar violence and an upswing in terrorism, the French foreign minister said. And everything was peaches and cream, say, around 9:05 AM on 9/11/2001? "This is a belief that I have never stopped expressing," Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin told Le Monde newspaper in an interview in its Friday edition. "And never will tire of expressing!" "We have to look reality in the face Is that why the UN ran away like a nancy boy with one explosion at their Baghdad headquarters? Assertions by the administration of US President George W. Bush that ousting Saddam would make the world a safer place proved not to be true, de Villepin said. "Non, non, non! Zat is zoo simplisme!" "Terrorism didn’t exist in Iraq before," de Villepin said. "Today, it is one of the world’s principal sources of world terrorism." I doubt I could ever lie like that. No future in politix for me... De Villepin called again on the United States to respect a June 30 deadline for the Americans to hand over power to the Iraqis. The State Department dismissed the statement, saying the future is more important than the past. "The United States is looking forward, not backward," department spokesman Adam Ereli said. "Our focus is on helping Iraq to build a safer, more democratic, more prosperous country and working with the international community to that end." And if Ereli said terrorism existed before the war and Iraq had links to terrorists. "Unfortunately, the use of terror is a function of our modern world and to try to say that it was existent in one part and not existent in another part I think ignores the fluidity of the phenomenon," he said. Diplospeak for ’STFU, Dominique!" |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #9 Hats off to #3, #4 and #8 especially. Thanks! "The United States is looking forward, not backward," department spokesman Adam Ereli said. "Our focus is on helping Iraq to build a safer, more democratic, more prosperous country and working with the international community to that end." Everyone should read the post by the Marine on the front lines. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-3-19 11:31:03 PM |
| #8 Clearly, Dominique has forgotten the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D. when France halted the Muslims' drive to take over Europe and end Christianity. Betcha AlQ hasn't forgotten it, though. |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-3-19 10:55:48 PM |
| #7 France is trying to reframe the arguement. They know the recent capitulation of Spain will lead to increased attacks in Europe so they are preparing to blame the war in Iraq. Those in America see one enemy who is picking targets. An enemy still bemoaning the tragedy of Andalusia. That enemy fought America and they lost Afghanistan and Iraq. That enemy fought against Iraqi's and died in droves and gaining no traction except in the western media. Then they blew up some Spaniards and they got a change of Government more to their liking so they start threatening France, etc. Europe cannot see the pattern for some reason. Al Queda hated Saddam and Iraq yet they blew up Spanish trains because Saddam was removed from power? They see no contradiction there at all. Every attack is a retaliation for wrongdoing. "Thank You Sir May I have another!" |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-3-19 6:54:38 PM |
| #6 Appeasement---Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition by Dominique DeVillepin Required reading for Terrorism and Dhimmitude 101. Due to the high demand for this text in Spain and France, copies are backordered. Be prepared to share textbooks until the textbook is restocked. Earlier editions may be used, it is just that examples are not quite up to date. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-3-19 6:25:17 PM |
| #5 Hilarious. France thy name is pussy. You need another Corsican in charge to give you a little backbone. (JFM excluded) |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-3-19 6:11:38 PM |
| #4 "Terrorism didn’t exist in Iraq before," Ah, those nuanced French. Gassing villages? Not terror. Genocide campaigns? Not terror. Mass graves featuring entire families? Not terror. Torture chambers in every police station? Not terror. Government-funded rape squads? Not terror. It's almost as if modern France looks back on their own Reign of Terror with nostalgia rather than disgust. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-3-19 6:01:45 PM |
| #3 Ever since the elections in Spain on Sunday, the Eurosocialists have been in a full-court press to put the situation in Iraq in as bad a light as possible. Villepin's statements go well beyond mere lying and well into the territory of delusion. The French had better understand: we're damned well going to remember their backstabbing, anklebiting and weaselwording, and we're going to remember it for a long, LONG time. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-3-19 5:00:58 PM |
| #2 yea whatever....just because europe does not have a backbone....from an American perspective there is less terrorism directed against 'our' soft targets because we confronting these loonies in their backyard.....status quo ended on 9-11 but not for the eurotrash! |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-3-19 4:59:17 PM |
| #1 The State Department dismissed the statement, That's all that needed to be said. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-3-19 4:48:21 PM |