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2005-02-22 Europe

NRO: What is the Bush administration thinking about the pending EU constitution?

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Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-02-22 11:03:10 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 On February 28, 2002, another constitutional convention began its work... ...The gathering in Brussels was chaired by Giscard D'Estaing, no Hamilton or Madison, but a failed, one-term president of France best known for his unseemly involvement with Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the cannibal "emperor" of central Africa. Giscard's convention was packed with

{INSERT PHOTO HERE : "Village Idiots Convention" from the Woody Allen Movie, "Love & Death"}

placemen, cronies, creeps, and has-beens to make up a body where to be called second rate would have been an act of grotesque flattery.

I Like this Stuttaford guy!

Posted by BigEd 2005-02-22 12:52:49 PM|| 2005-02-22 12:52:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 At ceremonies held to celebrate the conclusion of the convention's work, one over-excited Austrian delegate compared Giscard to Socrates, a remark that would undoubtedly have reduced that ancient, and unfortunate, Greek to yet another swig of hemlock.

A-f*ck yeah-MEN!

Posted by Ptah 2005-02-22 1:05:41 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-02-22 1:05:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The constitution paves the way for the transfer of increasing amounts of defense and diplomatic activity from Europe's national capitals to Brussels. Article 1-16 commits all member states to a "common foreign and security policy." "Member states" are required to "actively and unreservedly support the Union's common foreign and security policy in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity and shall comply with the Union's actions in this area. They shall refrain from action contrary to the Union's interests or likely to impair its effectiveness." In a recent radio interview, Spanish prime minister Jose Zapatero explained how this might work: "we will undoubtedly see European embassies in the world, not ones from each country, with European diplomats and a European foreign service...we will see Europe with a single voice in security matters. We will have a single European voice within NATO."

"Hey Zappy, while you were talking I saw a bulge in your pantaloons. And why are you breathing so heavily? You like telling the Brits, Italians, and Eastern Europeans what to do, eh? Your kind would not get elected in those places very easily. So you are shoving your pacifist appeasing trash down thier throats, right?", one reporter asked...

The angered Zapatero screamed for the guards to "Throw out the heckler." His rage boiling. "You are no reporter, sir. I challenge you to pistols at dawn. Wait a minute. I am a pacifist? This is a dilemma!"

Posted by BigEd 2005-02-22 1:34:31 PM|| 2005-02-22 1:34:31 PM|| Front Page Top

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