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2003-03-08 Iraq

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-03-08 07:01 pm|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 GAwd, that is delicious! Wasn't it Vill-er Dominique, who didn't hesitate to shaft Rumsfield in a NATO forum when the latter was not in a position to respond? If so, then bully for the British for covering our backs!

Posted by Ptah 2003-03-08 19:42:39|| 2003-03-08 19:42:39|| Front Page Top

#2 No brit ever lost his job for pissing on a frenchman...

Posted by mojo 2003-03-08 19:47:33|| 2003-03-08 19:47:33|| Front Page Top

#3 I suppose the entente ain't that cordiale anymore?

Posted by True German Ally 2003-03-08 19:53:04|| 2003-03-08 19:53:04|| Front Page Top

#4 He could have quoted Dominique's confusingly written drivel on Napoleon if he had really wanted to heap scorn. Another good way to rub it in would be to give the statistics for the decline in French as an international language.

Posted by mhw 2003-03-08 20:08:02|| 2003-03-08 20:08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Well Napoleon and diplomats...
The Emperor called Talleyrand, the father of all weasels: "A piece of shit in silk stockings"
Sums it up nicely, right?

Posted by True German Ally 2003-03-08 20:27:57|| 2003-03-08 20:27:57|| Front Page Top

#6 i get the impression someone is goading the French into a veto.

"Feeling lucky, punk? Go ahead, make my day!"

Posted by john 2003-03-08 22:10:54|| 2003-03-08 22:10:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Rumsfeld was whacked by Fischer in Munich for a conference, not de Villepin;

Posted by mike 2003-03-09 00:42:30|| 2003-03-09 00:42:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Frankenreich tag team meet the Anglosphere. We've defeated you for a century and you still don't get it. (And Britain even longer.)

Churchill said, "Never let yourself be separated from the Americans." (Or close to that.)

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-09 00:57:28|| 2003-03-09 00:57:28|| Front Page Top

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