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| Jacques apologizes to the Queen |
| 2003-04-03 |
| THE QUEEN has received a letter from French President Jacques Chirac apologising for the desecration of a British War cemetery, Buckingham Palace said today. In the letter he described the anti-war graffiti plastered over the First World War monuments at Etaples, near Calais, as "inadmissible and shameful." The letter, delivered to the Queen at Windsor, read: "From the French people and from me personally, I offer you my deepest regrets." He also said the thoughts of the French were with British soldiers currently fighting in Iraq, despite recent opinion polls showing 80% of French people being opposed to war. A reply was being prepared on the advice of government ministers, the Palace said. The letter comes a day after we reported how vandal’s spray-painted insults including "Dig up your rubbish, it’s contaminating our soil," at a cemetery containing the remains of 11,000 British and other allied soldiers. France’s Secretary of State for Veterans’ Affairs, Hamlaoui Mekachera, was today travelling to Etaples for a wreath-laying ceremony of remembrance, accompanied by representatives of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #7 The Queen Mum ain't no one to mess with ,she's a tough,no-nonsense old bird. She is my kinda gal. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-04-04 06:25:33 |
| #6 --A reply was being prepared on the advice of government ministers, the Palace said.-- Maybe she is not amused by the froggies' attitudes? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-04 00:30:23 |
| #5 Hey, gendarme. How's that investigation going? Hello? Hello? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-04-03 22:29:27 |
| #4 Chirac is a fool, the perfect leader for a country that thinks Jerry lewis is a comedic genius, I am french canadian by ancestry, but I am thinking of becoming Italian or Polish or Spanish or a Lithuanian blowfish.......... |
| Posted by: Wills 2003-04-03 22:02:07 |
| #3 Thane makes a good point- if this isn't played up in France proper, the lesson's wasted, and that would suit Jacques fine - boycott France until they have regime change, right John Kerry? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-03 21:38:33 |
| #2 Did Jacques go on French TV & Radio to say how ashamed he was. Did he go to the site to say this is not how the French feel?? How the British, in the hundred of thousands, sacrificed their lives at Ypres and Pashendale and the Somme for the survival of France?? Or The 100,000 the Americans lost in barely a year on the Western Front?? (The same number lost in three years in Korea AND twelve years in Vietnam combined). Of course not. Oh, and don't forget how the Russians during the First World War sacrificed themselves in the MILLIONS to alleviate German military pressure on France?? For Every Battle of the Marne there was a Battle of Tannenberg for Russia. Whenever the French felt the Kaiser squeezing their tiny little balls they immediatedly scream to Grand Duke Nicholas "Attack!!!" And gallant Russia did. Their reward: a gruesome civil war and 75 years of Communist mischeive. France IS NOT an ally. Everyone except Joe Biden (D-DE) realizes this. The sooner Tony Blair gives up on Europe the better (Pssst, Tony...Free Trade with USA. Do the British really want to be ruled from Brussels or Strasbourg??). |
| Posted by: Thane of Cawdor 2003-04-03 20:17:35 |
| #1 Took 'em long enough to apologize. Chiraq must have done it only per his masters at TotalFinaElf. |
| Posted by: Former Russian Major 2003-04-03 20:10:03 |