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2006-06-17 Europe

Villepin: Fight against terrorism must be legal

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Posted by ryuge 2006-06-17 06:41|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 LOL. Coming from France, which does whatever the hell it pleases, this means precisely nothing.
It must be tiring to posture constantly.

Posted by Unolutle Jinelet7792 2006-06-17 07:25|| 2006-06-17 07:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Considering a EU commission reviewed the conditions at Gitmo and found them superior to what France had to offer its own citizens, Vill must be working his material for a new comedy routine.

Posted by Hupitle Phereger1161 2006-06-17 09:20|| 2006-06-17 09:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Drop 'em at the Champs-Elysees.

Posted by Perfessor 2006-06-17 09:22|| 2006-06-17 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Why does he care enough to open his mouth? I think everything he says requires a "Follow the money" traceback.
I wonder what his fee schedule is for bullshit.
Maybe I could pay him to trash somebody.

Posted by 3dc 2006-06-17 09:50|| 2006-06-17 09:50|| Front Page Top

#5 It must be tiring to posture constantly.

It's his viagra.

Posted by lotp 2006-06-17 09:56|| 2006-06-17 09:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Villechimp is playing the Gitmo card in his struggle for Chirac's spot. Meanwhile, doesn't France have its own problems to sort out?

Posted by Captain America 2006-06-17 10:11|| 2006-06-17 10:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah. Hit 'em with your pretty sash, Mary! That'll show 'em!

Posted by tu3031 2006-06-17 10:43|| 2006-06-17 10:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Damn right Dominique (not a girl)! We need some new laws. Let me offer one. "Terrorists, and anybody who aids & abets then --- by word or deed, are enemies general of the humankind---to be dealt with as wolves are."

Posted by gromgoru 2006-06-17 11:03|| 2006-06-17 11:03|| Front Page Top

#9 I realize that no serious discussion is possible with any "man" with a signature like this.

But these comments are really, really out there, even for a despotic French tranzi. Since when is man-made law fixed and immutable? He suggests that society exists to serve the law, when the point of law is to serve society. We can't ignore the laws of physics -- which often work to terrorists' advantage -- but we can sure as hell ignore laws that require us to commit suicide.

Particularly where the "laws" he refers to are the nonbinding wishes of a body with no enforcement authority, rather than, oh, say, treaties ratified with the advice & consent of the US Senate.

I don't expect M. de Villepin to see this -- his "logic" just struck me as especially bizarre.

Posted by Omereque Whinetch9110 2006-06-17 11:27|| 2006-06-17 11:27|| Front Page Top

#10 ...Loking at the pic of his signature, I grieve for the country that produced Lafayette, the Old Guard, and the Foreign legion.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-06-17 12:09|| 2006-06-17 12:09|| Front Page Top

#11 his main qualification for PM is he won't arrest Chirac.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al 2006-06-17 15:23|| 2006-06-17 15:23|| Front Page Top

#12 A bold printed demarche threatening a warrant aughta do it. Sniff

Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-06-17 15:40|| 2006-06-17 15:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Don't exactly write tiny in the corners does he?

Posted by 6 2006-06-17 18:44|| 2006-06-17 18:44|| Front Page Top

#14 I agree completely. After all, the terrorists never do anything illegal to further their aims. We should do likewise.

BTW, Dominique, nice hair gel! I'd have killed for curls like that back in the 80's.

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