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2003-03-28 Europe

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Posted by Bulldog 2003-03-28 02:39 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think what most of the world hasn't yet figured out is that Bill Clinton, the Apologizer-in-Chief, is no longer in charge.

Posted by Dave D. 2003-03-28 06:28:00|| 2003-03-28 06:28:00|| Front Page Top

#2 The loss and damage to Apache helicopters early in the conflict prompted French parliamentarians to joke in private that the Americans would have been better off with French helicopters.

Want to talk about French aircraft carriers?

Pierre Lellouche, the most vocal opponent of President Chirac's stance on Iraq within his parliamentary party, said of his fellow deputies "seeing the Americans and British get a bloody nose makes them happy. They don't understand that if they lose, all the dictators, all the tyrants, all the proliferators will have a field day. Then what is the advantage for France in chaos?"

Bravo for Lellouche, one of the few Frenchman who can add two and two together and come up with a number that is independent of the opinion polls.

The anti-war protesters obviously believe that ONLY the armed forces of the United States and Israel can be "effectively defeated" by protests, mindless slogans, fancy costumes and floats, and ejection of bodily fluids. If they were truly against war, then they obviously believe that such tactics are useless against anyone else, since there were no such protests when Saddam invaded Iran and Kuwait, when Russia invaded Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Afghanistan, when Red China invaded Tibet, when Milosovic was waging war in the Balkans, when Tanzania invaded Uganda to kick out Idi Amin, when Argentina took the Falklands, and when Great Britain took the Falklands back. If US Foreign policy is truly controlled by a Vast Zionist Conspiracy, then why hold to the vain belief that said Zionists give a flying F*ck to the message of "No War", spelled out on the grass with the bodies of nude women lying face down because they know they're butt ugly?

Posted by Ptah 2003-03-28 07:33:55|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-03-28 07:33:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Hummm, I'm afraid I'll have to agree with the palestinian comparison. General feeling here in la belle France is that everybody is quietly waiting for the US to fail; not being vocably anti-US is deemed as being "pro-US", which I'm certainly not btw, G. W. Bush is slandered all over the place, dumb as shit, coward, manipulated, racist, muslim-hater, religious zealot,..., Blair is a poddle, Bush's bitch, a mindless follower,... Demagogy, stupidity, blindness, arrogance, fashionable antisemistism disguised as "antisionism" all around. Not too proud to be french, these days.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-28 11:19:37|| 2003-03-28 11:19:37|| Front Page Top

#4 They don't understand that if they lose, all the dictators, all the tyrants, all the proliferators will have a field day. Then what is the advantage for France in chaos?"

Plenty of advantage for France in chaos. Official policy is to aid, abet and trade with dictators, tyrants and proiferators.

Posted by bdm 2003-03-28 11:22:31|| 2003-03-28 11:22:31|| Front Page Top

#5 We didn't need to go to Iraq to see arabs, all we had to do is go to france!

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-28 14:19:36|| 2003-03-28 14:19:36|| Front Page Top

#6 The French have done a great job over the last 100 years of turning over. The protests in Paris before WWII to have the country disarm and live in peace is indicative of the mind set. Let us disarm so we can be overrun and humiliated must be the number 2 past time of the country closely behind protesting.

Of any two countries in the world that should stand The French have done a great job over the last 100 years of turning over. The protests in Paris before WWII to have the country disarm and live in peace is indicative of the mind set. Let us disarm so we can be overrun and humiliated must be the number 2 past time of the country closely behind protesting.

Of any two countries in the world that should stand against fascism and dictatorships should be the French and Germans. Our hypocrisy? Our evil ways? Hey Chirac, look in the mirror because your inaction to stop evil is collusion. The same way your country colluded in German production of war materials after the Nazi's rolled through Paris, and has colluded in selling illegal material to Iraq. Go ahead and protest. It's easier to blame others than yourself.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-28 15:11:59|| 2003-03-28 15:11:59|| Front Page Top

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