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2007-07-08 Europe

France's ruling elite rocked by Sarkozy raids

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Posted by ryuge 2007-07-08 01:18|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The story has gripped France with its insights into Machiavellian intrigue in high politics.

EUspeak to US translation:
High politics = low, under-the-belt politics.
Sophisticated individual = confused individual with no redeeming qualities.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-07-08 01:30|| 2007-07-08 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 So... I'm sophisticated, after all!

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-08 02:53|| 2007-07-08 02:53|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm glad to see that the US is not the only country having problems with weaselly ex-intel chiefs blabbing to the press and stabbing their govenment in the back...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-07-08 02:59|| 2007-07-08 02:59|| Front Page Top

#4 "weaselly ex-intel chiefs"

Is there another variety?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-08 03:52|| 2007-07-08 03:52|| Front Page Top

#5 --Michèle Alliot-Marie, --

Isn't that the bitch who gave Rummy a toy Helo and basically said this is all the help we're getting????

Good on Sarko, they need to clean house.

Payback's coming...........

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-07-08 04:03|| 2007-07-08 04:03|| Front Page Top

#6 anonymous5089, am affraid not. You seem to have some redeeming qualities, and therefore you can't qualify as a "sophisticated" individual. ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2007-07-08 04:25|| 2007-07-08 04:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Bon riposte, deuxparquatre.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-08 04:54|| 2007-07-08 04:54|| Front Page Top

#8 U.S. needs to clean house also.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-08 09:58|| 2007-07-08 09:58|| Front Page Top

#9 can't wait for Dominique to go to prison. He can read his poetry to the inmates to convince them he's a ~~bitch~~ man

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-07-08 13:30|| 2007-07-08 13:30|| Front Page Top

#10 I think the French invented the weaselly secret police chief. Joseph Fouche took weaseldom to whole new heights:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouche

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-07-08 13:49|| 2007-07-08 13:49|| Front Page Top

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