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2004-11-17 Europe
Chirac questions US-led Iraq war
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Posted by tipper 2004-11-17 10:20:50 AM|| || Front Page|| [11149 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Blah, blah, blah. Ribet, ribet, ribet. Same old, same old. Slimey frog.
Posted by Tom 2004-11-17 10:24:31 AM||   2004-11-17 10:24:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps the war in Iraq has made the world less safe for appeasers, but from the US side of things it appears far safer to have things blowing up in Iraq and Netherlands rather than Manhattan and Washington DC.
Posted by rjschwarz  2004-11-17 10:32:48 AM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com]  2004-11-17 10:32:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd say he's giving Secretary Rice the bird before she's said a word.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-17 10:34:01 AM||   2004-11-17 10:34:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 A nice, clear message for Jacques can be found here.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-17 10:34:37 AM||   2004-11-17 10:34:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "He also signals that he believes Britain’s support for the US-led war has brought few dividends. In an earlier interview with British journalists, Mr Chirac said Prime Minister Tony Blair had received nothing in return for backing the Bush administration."

And what the Hell, may I ask, have we ever received from France for liberating them from the Nazis? Absolutely nothing.

Blair has earned our respect and our trust-- two things this corrupt Frog probably cannot even understand, much less value.
Posted by Dave D. 2004-11-17 10:46:51 AM||   2004-11-17 10:46:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Monsieur Chiraq is "not at all sure" about so many things these days. I think Rantburg's own JFM may well have called it correctly when he diagnosed senility.
Posted by trailing wife 2004-11-17 10:51:29 AM||   2004-11-17 10:51:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I see the French and all are working their time-tested technique of appeasement on Iran and its nuke program. IIRC, Chamberlain got an agreement from Chancellor Hitler in 1936, which resulted in WW2 in Sept. 1939. So that little accomplishment bought him 3 years and the the biggest sh*tfest the world has ever seen.
Posted by Alaska Paul  2004-11-17 10:55:57 AM||   2004-11-17 10:55:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Dear Diary:

Of course the Iraq War was a mistake. Before the War,Saddam paid millions to me and my friends. Now,nothing! What is worse,others now see that I cannot protect my special friends and they are starting to refuse to pay me protection money. Now I have to send my Army to some piece of merde African country to show you cannot mess w/me.
And another thing. How does that stupid cowboy have a better smirk than me? Everyone knows Frenchmen have the best smirk in the world,yet that accursed idiot has a smirk that is far better than mine. Ah,the trials God has put me through while I restore France to the glory that is rightly mine,I mean,Hers.
Posted by Stephen 2004-11-17 11:03:38 AM||   2004-11-17 11:03:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 The headline I'd like to see:

"Rice Questions Viability of Chirac-Led France"
Posted by Mike  2004-11-17 11:13:49 AM||   2004-11-17 11:13:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Chirac said Prime Minister Tony Blair had received nothing in return for backing the Bush administration. "I’m not sure it is in the nature of our American friends at the moment to return favours systematically," he said.

Oh, Mssr Chirac, you truly are floundering. First of all, that presumption has really not been put to the test yet. You better hope it never is. Britain has nothing to fear-they have given so much in this fight on terror and therefore have solid American loyalty and gratitude towards them. France, on the other hand, has given little and in some instances, has actually taken instead of given. France SHOULD be concerned about who they're going to get help from. Their unwillingness to lift their own weight and help in the WoT DOES kinda leave their bare butt hanging out the window.

France's ingratitude never fails to astound. It is amazing that, after the Ivory Coast/UN/American position yesterday, France still doesn't recognize or appreciate America's helping them out. Well, we can't be held accountable for your intellectual shortcomings Jacques. Apparently, you are not a quick study.

Of course, we can always accommodate his prediction that he will get nothing from us, should France and its leadership choose to remain parasitic, ingracious and provocative.
Posted by Jules 187 2004-11-17 11:16:52 AM||   2004-11-17 11:16:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Chirac makes the same fatal error that many buffoons in the past have made. He assumes that openly sneering at someone accomplishes something, like a nasty small boy hiding behind a chain link fence cursing at a police officer. The officer *does* notice, but he does nothing at the time. Later, when he chances on the nasty small boy alone in a dark alley, well...actions speak louder than words.
Posted by Anonymoose 2004-11-17 11:26:43 AM||   2004-11-17 11:26:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 He also errs in assuming Blair got in the WOT to get something from the U. S. as opposed to doing something in the national interest of the U. K. with the U. S. Some times nation's interests are coincident and they do not need to be part of coalitions of the bribed, the coerced, the bought and the extorted, like France.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-11-17 11:32:35 AM||   2004-11-17 11:32:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Chirac's game is pretty obvious-- it's the same one France's elite has been playing since 1945: triangulate between the US and its primary rival.
Gain the benefits of US heavy lifting on global security and economic matters while positioning yourself as the spokesman for those who resent the US.

In the middle east, this means championing jihadists and fascists. Aside from a few more contracts for Total and Alcatel and Bouygues, what benefit does this pro-fascist policy provide France? Is it worth it?

Really, if the French want to continue the triangulation policy, wouldn't it be smarter to cozy up to China rather than a collection of neck-sawers, stonethrowers and piddling little RPG-hurlers?
Posted by lex 2004-11-17 11:52:08 AM||   2004-11-17 11:52:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 "such as the mobilisation in a number of countries, of men and women of Islam"

What mobilisation would that be, Jacques? The highest estimate I have seen of the number of "insurgents" in Iraq is 50,000 (and the Marines have recently adjusted that number downward by a thousand or two.) This is out of a total Arab population of about 260 million. So, seething aside, the byword still seems to be: start the Jihad without me.

If he's referring to Muslim unrest in Sweden or the Netherlands, it's hard to see how those developments were caused by us rolling tanks into Baghdad without putting blue helmets on our tankers first.
Posted by Matt 2004-11-17 11:58:57 AM||   2004-11-17 11:58:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 You mean France is NOT supporting the liberation of Iraq? This changes EVERYTHING! Get George Bush on the line..tell him to stop the invasion!!

Thank God Chirac's message got through in time!
Posted by Justrand 2004-11-17 12:35:33 PM||   2004-11-17 12:35:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Imam Chirac needs to either officialy allign himself with the jihadists so that we can 'officially' include him in the axis (he has been an unofficial member in my book for some time now) or shut up.
Posted by J 2004-11-17 1:01:49 PM||   2004-11-17 1:01:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 I wish W would call these @sshats out on the carpet for being the appeasing, corrupt, obnoxious, smelly, whiny, cowardly, arrogant, weaselly, opportunistic, anti-American f*cks that the world knows them to be. It's amazing -- an entire country full of dirtbags.
Posted by Tibor 2004-11-17 1:12:10 PM||   2004-11-17 1:12:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Why is the world being safer the criterion by which the war should be judged? Was the world safer in 1943 when the US was ramping up its war effort? The world will not be safer until our enemies are defeated and that will take a long time.
Posted by open source 2004-11-17 2:01:11 PM||   2004-11-17 2:01:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Open source...you're trying to mix LOGIC and FRANCE. Doesn't work.
Posted by Justrand 2004-11-17 2:03:31 PM||   2004-11-17 2:03:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 The logic is to resist l'hyperpuissance americaine wherever possible and where it does not hurt France economically to do so.
Posted by lex 2004-11-17 2:10:54 PM||   2004-11-17 2:10:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Much of what Chirac says is designed to keep is butt out of pound me in the ass prison. The minute Chirac is not longer the Premire has butt is going to be indited for crimes he has been involved in before he became Premire.

Everything he does is either about gettting money for his political slush fund or staying out of a French court. He has a small amount of support in France. He and his party were literally the lesser evil in the last election. These statements resonate with the average narrow minded frenchman/woman.

To understand Chirac you must understand France beyond the sterotype.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2004-11-17 4:40:55 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2004-11-17 4:40:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 "However, I'm certain that I've become poorer due to the American's unilateralism."
Posted by danking70 2004-11-17 5:30:47 PM||   2004-11-17 5:30:47 PM|| Front Page Top

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One day, the bunny was hopping through the forest, and the snake was slithering through the forest, when the bunny tripped over the snake and fell down. This, of course, knocked the snake about quite a bit.

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"Oh, that would be wonderful" replied the bunny. So the snake slithered all over the bunny, and said, "Well, you're covered with soft fur; you have really long ears; your nose twitches; and you have a soft cottony tail. I'd say that you must be a bunny rabbit."

"Oh, thank you! Thank you," cried the bunny, in obvious excitement. The bunny suggested to the snake, "Maybe I could feel you all over with my paw, and help you the same way that you've helped me."

So the bunny felt the snake all over, and remarked, "Well, you're smooth and slippery, and you have a forked tongue, no backbone and no balls. I'd say you must be French
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