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2004-01-26 Britain

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Posted by Steve White 2004-01-26 12:28:26 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 'zactly how did that analysis go again Dr. Frank?
"Tony,you're not being parnoid. That bastard Jacques is really out to get you?"

JFM, how about Chirac? Can he stay in power through another election?

Posted by Gasse Katze 2004-1-26 12:48:00 PM|| 2004-1-26 12:48:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The next time you get into a debate w/someone convinced the Iraq War was for oil,hit them with the "Russian conspiracy".A)they think you are strange for not agreeing w/them,B)they won't respond to facts or logic,C)so have some fun and return idiocy w/idiocy.THE RUSSIAN CONSPIRACY:It was "British intelligence" that was mentioned in State of Union speech that got Pres.Bush in trouble.It was "British intelligence" that prompted Blair to go to war w/Iraq.And now it appears "British intelligence" was sowing discord between the two most active Western European leaders.The Soviets had once deeply penetrated the British intelligence community.What if the Russians have once again done so and the whole Iraq War was a Russian plot?One part was/is designed to stop a remilitarized European Union with expansion that would put it on Russia's borders.Splitting apart France and England would stop the Union cold.The second part was designed to enmesh the US in a Chechnya-type quagmire(so they misread US capabilities-it happens).A further hoped for result,would be defeating an interventionist President(and by implication American Interventionism)by getting allies in US to attack Pres. over misleading intelligence.Successful result of plot gives Russia time to rebuild by keeping Europe fragmented and suspicious of each other and by getting the US to abandon any policy of "unilateral" involvement in the world.

Conspiracy theory,everyone should have one.

Posted by Stephen 2004-1-26 3:24:22 PM|| 2004-1-26 3:24:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 London circus penetrated again?

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-26 3:33:32 PM|| 2004-1-26 3:33:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Steve, you got one of those new digital surprise meters? Cool. I gotta get me one of those.

Posted by Parabellum 2004-1-26 4:10:44 PM|| 2004-1-26 4:10:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah, Para, sweet machine, and when it says "0.000", you damn well know that you haven't been surprised.

Posted by Steve White 2004-1-26 5:18:21 PM|| 2004-1-26 5:18:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Gasse Katze

The electoral system in France is such that what really matters are not elections but control of the dominant party in the right or the left. For now the left is in a virtual coma. So the question is if someone can wrestle control of UMP from Jacques Chirac. The interior minister Sarkozy is trying to do that but he has an uphill struggle despite his popularity (don't forget that tyhe people who control eembership in UMP are Chirac's creatures). His best argument is that if Chirac is reeelected in 2007 he will be really, really old by end of term. If Chirac suffered a stroke it would be better.

Another point is that Sarkozy is first generation French: Hungarian parents who fled Hungary in 1956.

Posted by JFM 2004-1-26 6:07:36 PM|| 2004-1-26 6:07:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 GK - on the money

Posted by Frank G 2004-1-26 6:51:50 PM|| 2004-1-26 6:51:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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