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2004-06-10 Europe

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-06-10 4:22:13 PM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What's making me nervous is a "Happy Jac", smiling GWB and optimistic Arabs all in the same story... What did George give them? The contents of Bakers briefcase???

Posted by Capsu78 2004-06-10 4:54:08 PM|| 2004-06-10 4:54:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe GWB just remembered his mothers admission to him in his youth to be kind to dogs and the handicapped

Posted by cheaderhead 2004-06-10 4:57:24 PM|| 2004-06-10 4:57:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 cheaderhead. Remember the French are a defacto-islamic country. Dogs are now "unclean". But your point is well taken.

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-10 5:02:50 PM|| 2004-06-10 5:02:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Hopefully GWB is just playing his poker hand close to his chest. I hope all this smiley stuff is just---stuff, because Chiraq has stabbed this country in the back repeatedly, and France's profiteering in the oil-for-palaces program was achieved on the backs and the deaths of the Iraqi people. France has nothing to bring to the table except a few thousand troops and a wheezing aircraft carrier parked in Toulon. Its all window dressing with France.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-06-10 5:03:54 PM|| 2004-06-10 5:03:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Forgive you enemies, but remember their names." - JFK

Posted by Super Hose 2004-06-10 5:04:09 PM|| 2004-06-10 5:04:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The two world leaders looked like and proclaimed themselves friends today, with hardly a hint of the deep differences that divided them over the invasion of Iraq last year.

Ditto : Super Hose : #5

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-10 5:09:22 PM|| 2004-06-10 5:09:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 It just goes to show that GWB can be disingenuous. LOL!

Posted by danking70 2004-06-10 5:12:17 PM|| 2004-06-10 5:12:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Ain't buying it.

Posted by jules 187 2004-06-10 5:25:07 PM|| 2004-06-10 5:25:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 GWB's just patting Chiraq on the back, looking for the proverbial soft spot to sink the knife. Corleone would approve.

Posted by Raj 2004-06-10 5:32:47 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-06-10 5:32:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 No way...not with Chirac. OT (sorta) but just saw a blurb about Chirac pushing an international poverty tax. This guy just doesn't quit.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-06-10 5:34:30 PM|| 2004-06-10 5:34:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Does anyone have the photo of the Prez's fingers crossed behind his back while he was talking?

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-10 5:43:20 PM|| 2004-06-10 5:43:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 This is great news. We can now depend on France to re-double its efforts to help with Iraq and the WoT.

Posted by Sam 2004-06-10 6:11:57 PM|| 2004-06-10 6:11:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Actually, this is just a nuanced way to say that France is doing as much as it can in its current reduced circumstances. Chirac is moving into the elite circle of people like Robert Byrd, Teddy Kennedy, and Robert Mugabe who are self-parodies

Posted by RWV 2004-06-10 6:19:08 PM|| 2004-06-10 6:19:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Franco-US relations on the mend

In a pig's eye.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-10 10:49:29 PM|| 2004-06-10 10:49:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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