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2006-07-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
The French Are Coming!
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Posted by glenmore 2006-07-17 08:40|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 It would be just to easy.
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-07-17 09:06||   2006-07-17 09:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Is Dominique the Man?
Posted by Bobby 2006-07-17 09:06||   2006-07-17 09:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Just expressing which side they are on.
Posted by ed 2006-07-17 09:08||   2006-07-17 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Keep your head down Devil Pin.

Should be like a cartoon, "Whats for Dinner?"

"Duck!"
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-07-17 09:10||   2006-07-17 09:10|| Front Page Top

#5 France is today sending Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to Beirut to express support for Lebanon

Not afraid of "Apocalyptic Destruction"?
Posted by gromgoru 2006-07-17 09:11||   2006-07-17 09:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Express, expel liquid or air (Oxford Dictionary)
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-07-17 09:24|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-07-17 09:24|| Front Page Top

#7 So lets send Powell to Israel and he can get his revenge.
Posted by 3dc 2006-07-17 09:47||   2006-07-17 09:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Wouldn't you love to see the rejects from t5hat photo shoot?
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-17 11:49||   2006-07-17 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Does anyone know his exact iteneray and locations ? Is he visiting his Hezb friends or have they all cleared out ? Is he near an airfield or radar location ? Just asking.
Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-07-17 11:58||   2006-07-17 11:58|| Front Page Top

#10 
Bringing white flags and an offer of Isreal to surrender.
Posted by macofromoc 2006-07-17 12:14||   2006-07-17 12:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Pretty sash.
Pretty hair.
Pretty man...
Posted by tu3031 2006-07-17 12:16||   2006-07-17 12:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Can we slip the tail # to Hiz and tell them a very important Israeli is on board?
Posted by anonymous2u 2006-07-17 12:27||   2006-07-17 12:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Lookout little seagull; there are some awfully big sharks swimming around out there....
Posted by Secret Master 2006-07-17 12:36||   2006-07-17 12:36|| Front Page Top

#14 A while back, commenters said that Matignon (PM residence) insiders leaked that dominique galouzeau "de villepin" had two hopes so he could get back on its feet (he's been a dead fish floating belly up since the CPE crisis) :

- that France would win the world cup.
Close, but no cigar (boy, I'm sure that match with Togo cost taxpayers a lot of unmarked bills from Matignon's secret funds!).

- and that there would be a severe crisis in the ME (probably thinking about iran), so he could show the french they need a Real Stateman(Tm) like you-knwo-who to lead them in these perilous times. Basically, he wished for the un iraq sideshow redux, so he could get standing ovations from the "pacifist crowd" and from african and muslim delegates again.
This may be it.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-17 13:24||   2006-07-17 13:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Dumb question, but how does de Villepin plan on getting to Beirut? Haven't all the runways been destroyed? Is he going to fly to Israel and take a chopper or something? I suppose it's not a major detail, but I was just wondering since it seems like it could be risky.
Posted by WhiteCollarRedneck 2006-07-17 13:42||   2006-07-17 13:42|| Front Page Top

#16 Most likely a boat to the coast, then a chopper ride in. And you know, the terrorists HAVE been striking boats a lot of late.
Posted by DarthVader 2006-07-17 14:15||   2006-07-17 14:15|| Front Page Top

#17 "Ahmed, that cute little Frenchman in coming here!"
"Ah, Mahmoud. Do you think he will hold me?"
"Of course, Ahmed. He is French after all, and reportedly - a man's kind of man, if you get my meaning."
"Oh, Mahmoud. That kind of talk gets me so excited. Hold me."

Did'nt I say something the other day about how a bunch of stuffed shirts and do-gooders are going to try to get the Israeli's to back off and get a ceasefire declared?


Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg  2006-07-17 16:50|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com]  2006-07-17 16:50|| Front Page Top

#18 Bringing in a cargo of white flags???
Posted by radrh8r 2006-07-17 19:09||   2006-07-17 19:09|| Front Page Top

#19 a dramatic entrance in a giant white hot air balloon....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-07-17 19:27||   2006-07-17 19:27|| Front Page Top

#20 And a prompt announcement of complete fecklessness.
Posted by J. D. Lux 2006-07-17 22:14||   2006-07-17 22:14|| Front Page Top

#21 Driving, is he?
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-07-17 23:52||   2006-07-17 23:52|| Front Page Top

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