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2004-09-07 Europe

France Hopes Stance Aids Captives in Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2004-09-07 12:17:50 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

France: Cut them loose and let them sink. Cut all aid, minimal diplomatic ties. Toss 'em out od NATO altogether. Kick Dominique's dog, if you can find the mutt...

Posted by mojo 2004-09-07 1:21:00 AM|| 2004-09-07 1:21:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It's rather fun to consider that Iraq is now, and will be in the future, more significant in world affairs than France. Nothing more need be said to repay them their perfidy and efforts to finish off whatever relevancy the UN stil had. They succeeded and, thus, consigned their last stage and venue of obstructionism to the scrap heap of history.

Posted by .com 2004-09-07 1:25:59 AM|| 2004-09-07 1:25:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The planet less two Gaulies....
Like Lawyer's, it's a start...
Maybe the Islamonazi's will do something special to the Gaul's, like doing a chainsaw from the top of their heads all the way through the family jewels!! Something creative just to get the worlds attention because they are "French".

BTW - Are the Gauls not do for a drop in population?

Posted by Long Hair Republican 2004-09-07 1:59:20 AM|| 2004-09-07 1:59:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 France will quietly pay 5 mill and get it's dip shit reporters back and claim it hasn't paid any ransom.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-07 2:01:13 AM|| 2004-09-07 2:01:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 It will be interesting to see how they spin being the 1st or second (Spain?) country to declare a truce with Bin Laden.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-07 3:23:03 AM|| 2004-09-07 3:23:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 France will cough up the ransom, and be shocked when this same thing happens again.
You learn this in any schoolyard, give a bully your lunch money, and he will come looking for more no question.
The French never cease to amaze me. In a bad way.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-09-07 7:30:01 AM|| 2004-09-07 7:30:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 You never see Iranian and Syrian journalists held for very long and certainly not for very long. Must be the fact that those countries have very effective terrorist fighting programs as well. I bet Syria and Iran can expect regular help from Hezbolah, Hammas and the Association of ~~Sadaamist~~ Muslim Scholars as well.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-07 7:38:40 AM|| 2004-09-07 7:38:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Very perceptive, Sock. Many comments on the Liberation reader forum recalled how the Filipino was released for $6 mil and who remembers that now? So two for a total of $5 mil? C'est tout? Better bargain than the OJ at my supermarket.

Two remarks: 1) I've been away since Thursday, but had seen where the "handover" to the more "moderate" Islamic group had taken place. Thought for sure then that the journos would be back in Paris by the weekend. I guess not. Un peu trop complique. But I thought the French were so good at nuance. Guess not.
2) I just cannot fathom the "gall" of these Frenchy intellectuals with their presumption that they have shown the world how much their opposition to the Cowboy has somehow put them into a different category. French diplomacy has mobilized al-Qadraoui, al-Tantawi, Hezbollah. What great friends to have when you need to pay off a ransom!

Posted by chicago mike 2004-09-07 10:56:38 AM|| 2004-09-07 10:56:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh, yeah. One more thing. I think the WaPo guy did just a great job in presenting the other side of the story, like, you know, maybe the kidnappers don't care too much if the captives are French or not. Also loved the part where the French were ticked off that our guys were mucking things up by taking on the Fallujah mafia.

Posted by chicago mike 2004-09-07 11:01:58 AM|| 2004-09-07 11:01:58 AM|| Front Page Top

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