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2003-09-23 Europe

Chirac: Friendship With U.S. Will Prevail

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Posted by Steve White 2003-09-23 1:47:04 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I've have always considered anyone who chooses willful ignorance to be beneath contempt. Reality just IS - each individual's ability to accept it and deal with it as it exists is his measure. The intensity of a desire or belief has absolutely no effect upon reality. Simplified summary: He not dealing with reality is, by definition, dealing in phantasy.

This is Chirac whistling past the graveyard. Lousy tune - and repetitious. Phuck off, boyz.

Posted by .com 2003-9-23 5:16:00 AM|| 2003-9-23 5:16:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Tom Freidman was saying that Iraq has become France's proxy war with the US. On the plus side, we should expect France to do what it always does in wartime, surrender.

Posted by Ben 2003-9-23 5:52:58 AM|| 2003-9-23 5:52:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Ben - i think they already have.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-9-23 9:43:01 AM|| 2003-9-23 9:43:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Chirac is the biggest threat there is to the European Union. I think quite a few people in Europe are beginning to be aware of that fact.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-23 10:22:42 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-23 10:22:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The friendship between France and the United States will always prevail over the countriesâ political differences, French President Jacques Chirac said Monday.

Friendship has to exist before it can prevail. If the political classes and the snobby French elite are counted out of the equation, then yes, it will.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-23 11:15:24 AM|| 2003-9-23 11:15:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Dear American friends

I hope one day France and the USA can be friends again. But that will not happen until Chirac an Villepin are hanged from the nearest tree.

Posted by JFM 2003-9-23 11:33:10 AM|| 2003-9-23 11:33:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 The Frogs are completely useless! Even in Korea, which was approved by the UN and the Frogs! All they sent to fight was a single Infantry Battalion!

Posted by Greg 2003-9-23 11:42:49 AM|| 2003-9-23 11:42:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Very uncertain, but french army is allegedly planning for troops deployment in Irak, "in the scale of the GWI division Daguet" (that would be 10-12 000 men, which seems awfully high). That would indicate that, yes, Chirac has surrendered and is willing to participate, in order to get a slice of the iraqi pie. The UN would make a good cover for a U-turn, at least for public opinion, as the USA "crawling back" to the UN is presented here as a major blow to unilateralism, and the acknowlegment of the US failure in Iraq. An another great victory for France, for internal consumption only.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-23 12:15:29 PM|| 2003-9-23 12:15:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I travelled extensively in Europe during my four tours there with the Air Force. The ONLY place I was made to feel unwelcome was Paris. The people of Normandy are wonderful. I've never had any problems visiting Nancy or Strasbourg. Paris, however, is like another universe. The "France" of Jacques Chirac is the "France" of Paris. I hope that the rest of the nation wises up and dumps this one-man disaster before it poisons the rest of the world even more against the French people.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-23 12:20:24 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-23 12:20:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The thoroughly unoffical, grass-roots boycott of french goods and vacations has already dropped their yearly take by some 17% (IIRC).

Time to make it official? Put them on the Axis of Evil list, stop all trade and lock up any accounts in the US.

Smile (nastily).

"Care to try again?"

Posted by mojo 2003-9-23 3:54:00 PM|| 2003-9-23 3:54:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Vell, no El Qaeeeda or Baatheest evair called me... Froggy.

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-23 4:14:48 PM|| 2003-9-23 4:14:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I doubt "that" lycee, http://www.info-france-usa.org/atoz/bio/bio_villepin.asp although it has been in NYC since 1935, operating in various locations, most recently spread out between 6 buildings--the new building consolidates them.

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-9-23 6:10:28 PM|| 2003-9-23 6:10:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 As far as I'm concerned, Froggistan under Chiraq is an enemy nation ruled by bigots, Vichyite dhimmis, and arrogant nationalist psychopaths. In the UK and Ireland, at least, the anti-American racism and bigotry are limited to the chattering classes and their bourgeois sycophants. In Frog-land, Arab money has bought out the whole whorehouse.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2003-9-23 7:03:44 PM|| 2003-9-23 7:03:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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