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2004-03-15 Europe

EU Calls Emergency Meetings on Terrorism

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Posted by Fred 2004-03-15 2:50:10 PM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "The attacks in Madrid were an attack against the very values on which the Union is founded."

Sorry to disagree with you, Bertie, but no French bureaucrats were killed in the attack, nor was Chirac's bank account diminished.

You're Irish, Bertie, for gosh sakes. Just form your fingers into a fist and let your instincts take it from there. Don't form a committee. It's a war we're in.

Posted by Matt 2004-3-15 3:26:28 PM|| 2004-3-15 3:26:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Let me guess. This is
a). A search for a backbone transplant?
b). An effort to further inflate the EU bureaucracy?

The events of 3/11/04 require prompt and decisive action against the perpetrators. Appeasement is not a valid option.

Posted by GK 2004-3-15 4:09:36 PM|| 2004-3-15 4:09:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Like I said in my other comment in RB: the immediate effect of the boom is Parkenson's Law---Have Meetings, form Committees (elect officers?). Al's Quakin' in his boots....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-3-15 4:13:37 PM|| 2004-3-15 4:13:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 You depress me sometimes AP.

Posted by Shipman 2004-3-15 6:14:05 PM|| 2004-3-15 6:14:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Yup, and that whole NATO thing - man, what an appeasing organization it was, with its solidarity clauses. Instead of understanding that we were in a war and immediately launching an attack against Moscow.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-3-15 7:52:54 PM|| 2004-3-15 7:52:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 A Eurocrat Guide to Problem Solving

Step 1) Identify problem
Step 2) Form committee
Step 3) Committee meets, and after several months of ~~expensive dining~~ exhaustive study issues report
Step 4) Ignore report

Ignored problem gets worse - go to Step 1

Posted by A Jackson 2004-3-15 7:55:06 PM|| 2004-3-15 7:55:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 NATO is a relic. Darkness is falling, Aris. I hope you are prepared because we'll be too busy to help.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-3-15 7:56:11 PM|| 2004-3-15 7:56:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Aris,

Too bad Spain and Greece are directly in line of the Muslim advance into Europe again.

Posted by ed 2004-3-15 8:01:46 PM|| 2004-3-15 8:01:46 PM|| Front Page Top

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