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| Chirac's Comments in Malaysia | ||
| 2003-07-24 | ||
| Thanks to Merde in France When two virulent opponents of American involvement in Iraq like President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad of Malaysia get together, the language of Uh-oh. standard is already pretty high. This sounds bad. Chirac, in Putrajaya on Monday to receive the Kuala Lumpur World Peace Award from Mahathir, said, according to Agence France-Presse, that the world could no longer submit to the law of the jungle and needed to create an international organization that could eliminate
Yeah it's bad but pretty standard I'd say. Nothing we haven't heard 10,074 times already. The French news agency in turn attributed its version of Chirac's remarks to the official translator during award ceremonies in conjunction with Chirac's prize. Translator? Did he give the speech in Malay? In the carefully measured vocabulary of official French That's an unfair assumption. He might have been alluding to Congo? Coming at a moment of supposedly improving trans-Atlantic relations and attempts at the United Nations to fix a basis for wider international participation in pacifying Iraq, the report of the French president's jungle reference startled. Nobody who has paid even the slightest amount of attention to the news should be surprised. On Tuesday, the press office put out what it said was a brief but unofficial text of what Chirac had said. It contained no reference to "the law of the jungle" but a torturous, seemingly fragmentary sentence that said, "We can no longer accept the evolution of men, the world, we can no longer accept the simple law of the strongest." Well that's much better. Either the president and his advisers thought better of the phrase, or the official translator quoted in the dispatch had added a little zest to Chirac's remarks in line with Malaysian policy, which has described the United States as anti-Muslim and against nonwhite peoples. "What has been done in the war in Iraq is wrong both during the war and after the war," Mahathir said.
Warning: punchline approaching. Prepare to be reduced to helpless Chirac was honored, the AFP dispatch said, for his "resolute opposition to the war in Iraq and the courage he demonstrated in placing himself on the side of the oppressed." | ||
| Posted by:Tokyo Taro |
| #4 AWAS! Watch out for the august Datuk Seri Doctor Mahathir Mohamad! What's he really like? Read: Raped, Draped and Relegated Ever notice how when folks list the 9/11 borg they say that most of them came from Soddy land? Ever wonder where the other two came from? I'm certain that one of them came from Malaysia (I had a bizarre conversation with him). Datuk Dude, where is the 5 billion you scammed from the Hong Kong & Shanghai bank and Bank Bumi? |
| Posted by: parallaxview 2003-7-24 8:45:15 PM |
| #3 Take a hand full of sand and pound it up your asses. F#$%ing frogs. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-7-24 5:48:26 PM |
| #2 "We can longer accept the evolution of men..." Chriraq turns out to be a proponent of intelligent design. Who'd a thunk? |
| Posted by: af 2003-7-24 1:18:54 PM |
| #1 Yup. Sharia in France 2010. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2003-7-24 11:10:05 AM |