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Americans snub wobblers
FRENCH goods are being snubbed by nearly half of Americans because of slippery Jacques Chirac’s refusal to back the war on Iraq. A survey showed 43 per cent of US shoppers are refusing to buy French products and 36 per cent are boycotting the other main war wobblers, Germany. Evidence of the mass snub comes just days after US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned President Chirac France will “pay a price” for its refusal to back Britain and the US.
Americans are going to be looking at France even harder with the revelations of back-dooring us diplomatically with Sammy's regime...
Jack Leslie, of pollster KRC’s parent company Weber Shandwick, said: “The war may be over but consumers in the US are not ready to disarm. European-based brands and companies will feel the impact of American sentiment before they see it.” US shoppers are furious at France’s pig-headed defiance of the United Nations and NATO. They reminded President Chirac that thousands of Americans died liberating France in World War II. Chirac was warned repeatedly his defiant stand would cause economic and diplomatic crises. “Le Worm” destroyed all chances of winning a UN resolution for war. He also put Nato in peril by refusing to supply Turkey with missiles in case of a rocket attack by Iraq. The size of protest against French goods will be a hammer blow to its already shattered economy. As many as 100 million Americans could now be snubbing French products, wrecking their export markets at a time of spiraling unemployment.

Germany’s economy is in an even worse state and thousands of US troops are being pulled out over the country’s war stance. American GIs spend millions of dollars in Germany each year but are moving to Poland.
Posted by: OMER ISHMAIL 2003-04-27
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