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France angry at NATO over Libya - Or not this shi* again!
2011-04-13
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Being cynical, I think the French felt it was time for those "things" they keep in cages over at the Foreign Legion barracks needed some fresh air and a walk so they sent them to the Cote D'Ivore.

As for Libya, that really neat attack aircraft the French are marketing is a 20 year old design so the bombing campaign is not a satellite of the Paris Air Show. I think the French got a conscience transplant when Villapaine got his walking papers. They do seem to "care" about what's happening in Libya.

Too bad they didn't "care" about Iraq.

I am still amazed the Avenue D'Marshall Foch crowd is all lined up at the pier waving hankies and cheering their boys on.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2011-04-13 22:50  

#4  France has been doing this kind of thing for ages -- look at their little adventure in post-colonialism in the Ivory Coast, which they got the UN put its name on.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-04-13 21:31  

#3  "Either they're coming out of their hibernation or our administration has sunk so low the Brie and Wine Crowd on Avenue Foch seem like tough guys."

I'll take Door #2, Bill.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2011-04-13 21:26  

#2  Let me get this straight, if I can, the FRENCH are complaining to NATO about a lack of support and follow through on a bombing campaign in a Middle Eastern Country....

It boggles the mind, the FRENCH are the new tough guys of NATO.

Either they're coming out of their hibernation or our administration has sunk so low the Brie and Wine Crowd on Avenue Foch seem like tough guys.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2011-04-13 20:55  

#1  EUro asses are sooo overdue for good kicking.
Posted by: gr(o)mgoru   2011-04-13 12:42  

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