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2003-03-28 Europe

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Posted by tu3031 2003-03-28 11:20 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 US airlines have hundreds of jets on order from Airbus. These companies are threatening to come groveling to the people of the US for a bail out.

Perhaps a brief letter to our federal representatives on the use of tax dollars to fund the Franco-German Airbus is in order.

Posted by Woodland Critter 3/28/2003 9:04:51 PM|| 3/28/2003 9:04:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Monsieur Errera (who despite his name, promises not to err in the future) wants to know what the agenda is... Saddam's, or Chirac's? both the same, it seems. In Chrac's immortal words: "love of the Iraqi people".

Oh, you mean the agenda of the Coalition that is currently liberating Iraq despite all the French-made obstacles and treachery? here is the agenda: to fight terrorism and those who support it -- as well as to tell the truth about French treachery, and make sure your country pays for it. Clear? Now leave us alone.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2003-03-28 12:11:21|| [radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentevents/] 2003-03-28 12:11:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Dear France:

Only your silence can save you now. Shhhhhh. Important people have work to do, and we're damn tired of your asinine doublespeak.

DeVillprick deserves to bleed and surely shall burn.

Posted by defscribe 2003-03-28 12:45:21|| 2003-03-28 12:45:21|| Front Page Top

#4 *blinks* Old Patriot, I'd have thought it was in between Tierra del fuego and the McMurdo Ross Ice Shelf.

Interesting. Based on the time stamps, this came out within the same hour as the report of Jack Kingston's "No French Food" congressional letter hit the BBC. Coincidence?

*sighs* Nahhhh

Posted by Ptah 2003-03-28 12:46:00|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-03-28 12:46:00|| Front Page Top

#5 "... Foreign Ministry said it was "indignant" at media suggestions that French support for the United States was ambiguous ..."

Hasn't been ambiguous that I can see. Absent, yes, ambiguous no.

"... Chirac said France would veto any U.N. resolution letting "the belligerents" run Iraq after the war ... Errera suggested that Paris' faithfulness to the United States should be above question."

Hmm. Nope. No ambiguity there, no contradictions, it's clearly open support for the US. How silly of us to perceive otherwise!

Posted by Tadderly 2003-03-28 13:26:22|| 2003-03-28 13:26:22|| Front Page Top

#6 The French detente with the Jihadistas will be shortlived - nobody likes a friend that turns on a dime like that.Congratulations - appeasement still doesn't work!

Posted by El Id 2003-03-28 14:32:05|| 2003-03-28 14:32:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Note that Villepin's statement

'The United States, we hope, will win this war quickly,'

may have lost something in translation, but the English statement doesn't necessarily say he hopes the US will win. He could just have easily have meant, 'SINCE the Americans are going to win, I hope they do it quickly.'

Quite a different meaning than the one he's implying.

Fact is that Chiraq and company deliberately lied to Powell regarding 1441 (a resolution written mostly to their specifications), suckered us (US and Britain) into pursuing a UN imprimatur they had every intention of sabotaging, then went OUT OF THEIR WAY to torpedo the 'good' ship Security Council, and Turkey, and NATO -- and threatened the East Europeans as well.

This will not soon be forgotten, and I can't see US or Brit (or East European) diplomats trusting French assurances ever again. A US defense contractor would have to be crazy to subcontract to a French firm after this -- can't rely upon them as a supplier, nor count on their exports not being embargoed (let alone being sabotaged in the French factory) in the future.

Oh, well. Their perfidy is its own punishment. alone among the permanent members, their only value in the 21st century is the nuisance value of their UNSC veto. By weakening the credibility of the Security Council, they've weakened themselves most of all!

Posted by Thane of Glamis 2003-03-28 16:40:07|| 2003-03-28 16:40:07|| Front Page Top

#8 US airlines have hundreds of jets on order from Airbus. These companies are threatening to come groveling to the people of the US for a bail out.

Perhaps a brief letter to our federal representatives on the use of tax dollars to fund the Franco-German Airbus is in order.

Posted by Woodland Critter 2003-03-28 21:04:51|| 2003-03-28 21:04:51|| Front Page Top

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