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2004-04-29 Europe

Chirac: Turkey Entry Into EU Not Desired

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Posted by Steve 2004-04-29 9:27:17 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 snicker..and just think of all the money you could have had from the US, Turkey, if you hadn't stabbed us in the back before we could give it to you.

Posted by B 2004-04-29 9:49:04 AM|| 2004-04-29 9:49:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 heh heh...smells like schadenfreude in my cubicle, Murat

Posted by Frank G 2004-04-29 9:59:23 AM|| 2004-04-29 9:59:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 However, it cited several areas where more needed to be done.

If the EU elites are determined not to allow Turkey to become an EU member, there will always be a need to "do more". Keep that in mind next year.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-04-29 10:24:56 AM|| 2004-04-29 10:24:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Chirac, speaking at his first full-fledged news conference in six years, ...

Wow, and the press gave guff to GWB for only having his third?

Posted by penguin 2004-04-29 10:36:28 AM|| 2004-04-29 10:36:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, I'm afraid Turkey will find that the US has been (and could have been) a much better friend than the EU will ever be.

In the meanwhile, I look at the deaths in the Sunni triangle and know we could have had that area cleaned up a long time ago if we had come in from the north as planned. It makes me angry, not only for our deaths, but for the Iraqis whose stability and prosperity is being delayed.

Posted by rkb 2004-04-29 11:12:21 AM|| 2004-04-29 11:12:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Agreed, RKB. Turkey's treachery was huge, arguably worse and more damaging than that of France.

Posted by docob 2004-04-29 12:07:15 PM|| 2004-04-29 12:07:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 You mean that French IOU that Turkey's holding is completely worthless? Mais non!

Posted by Desert Blondie 2004-04-29 2:28:42 PM|| 2004-04-29 2:28:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh - no no-no-mon ami

Ze Turks are smellier zan we are. Oui?

We must be ze smelliest members of ze EU!

Posted by BigEd 2004-04-29 4:21:36 PM|| 2004-04-29 4:21:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 What a bunch of Turkeys.

Posted by B 2004-04-29 4:33:47 PM|| 2004-04-29 4:33:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 ...I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning...it smells like victory.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-04-29 6:37:19 PM|| 2004-04-29 6:37:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 schadenfreude

Mike K - Just in case there were others who were lexiconically challenged like me

Posted by BigEd 2004-04-29 6:56:25 PM|| 2004-04-29 6:56:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Not too surprised about this: EU membership would mean significantly eased rights to enter, live and work in all EU countries, including France. They're not all that happy about all the foreign 'guest workers' -- especially muslim ones...
Possibly to appease the anti-immigration cliques, although they seem not to be all that concerned by their suburban muslim hellholes outside the Paris 'ring road'...
But on the other hand -- who gives a shit what the French think about anything, anyway?

Posted by BK 2004-04-29 10:52:32 PM|| 2004-04-29 10:52:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Screwed the pooch.

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-04-29 10:55:59 PM|| 2004-04-29 10:55:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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