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2006-10-22 Europe

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Posted by Fred 2006-10-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 She hears the mob grumbling in the distance.

I'll respect nonwestern perspectives as long as they're not blowin' shit up. Then I tend to get peeved.

France needs to pull it's aristocratic head out of it's ass.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-10-22 01:33|| 2006-10-22 01:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Getting a touch nervous about all the car-b-ques, apparently.

Any time a French government official brings up our "special friendship", I start looking for the stab in the back coming our way (double that when Chirac is talking, and treble it when it is that lowlife de Villepin.)

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-10-22 01:45|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ] 2006-10-22 01:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Who was it who said "the French will always be there when they need us"?

Posted by Grunter 2006-10-22 01:59|| 2006-10-22 01:59|| Front Page Top

#4 General Patton: "I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French division behind me."

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-10-22 03:44|| 2006-10-22 03:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Big thick ropes, actually. To keep Uncle Sam hog-tied.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-10-22 04:46|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-10-22 04:46|| Front Page Top

#6 France will always be a trusted ally of the USA in precisely the same way Pakistan is a trusted ally of the USA in the war on jihad.

I'd like to be the first to wish our French readers in their Islamic Republic Happy EID.

Posted by Mark Z 2006-10-22 08:03|| 2006-10-22 08:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Mark Z has it, an enemy in all but name. Time for them or us to get fully out of NATO. They've been inimical too long.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-22 08:10|| 2006-10-22 08:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Keep your friends close and your enemies closer ....

Posted by lotp 2006-10-22 09:02|| 2006-10-22 09:02|| Front Page Top

#9 General Patton "I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French division behind me."

Sorry to disappoint you but this is probably apocriphal. Martin Bluenson (member of Patton's staff, and a one of the main authors of US Army's official history of WWI) tell in his book about Patton that he was quite a fancophile and a friend of Leclerc.

However Aliot-Marie is NO froend of the US.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-10-22 09:05|| 2006-10-22 09:05|| Front Page Top

#10 JFM, You are absolutely correct, though he was no fan of de Gaulle, as I recall

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-22 09:06|| 2006-10-22 09:06|| Front Page Top

#11 giving AA missiles to shoot down Israel's jets? FUCK off frog

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-10-22 14:12|| 2006-10-22 14:12|| Front Page Top

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