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2006-08-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2006-08-17 00:29|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I believe this is called black comedy...

Posted by flyover 2006-08-17 02:20|| 2006-08-17 02:20|| Front Page Top

#2 That's why we call them "weasels."

Posted by Mike 2006-08-17 06:08|| 2006-08-17 06:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I agree, flyover.

If only it were funny.

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-17 06:17|| 2006-08-17 06:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Treat 'em like those other former colonials, the Ivorians.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-17 08:23|| 2006-08-17 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 The poll for La Croix suggested relatively strong backing for a French troop deployment among young people.

Considering the preponderence of Muslims in this demo, that is hardly a surprise.

Heck, it could serve as a handy cover for ~~mujahadin~~ French youths to go to Lebanon.

Jihad on the UN plan.

Posted by charger 2006-08-17 09:46|| 2006-08-17 09:46|| Front Page Top

#6 They were right in the middle of the dogfight to ensure that they were part of this, now they cant seem to pay the bill.

How very french of them.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-08-17 10:38|| 2006-08-17 10:38|| Front Page Top

French Defence Minister
Michele Alliot-Marie

"France wants the mission's rules of engagement to be clear and it to have real means,"

(i.e. a clear path to the coast for escape if any weapons are fired.)

Posted by BigEd 2006-08-17 12:18|| 2006-08-17 12:18|| Front Page Top

#8 "But some are afraid of negative consequences back in France."

How quickly will the "youths" back home begin to seeth if French soldiers begin to cap some Hezzbies? Something tells me this corcerns them as much if not more then an "un-clear mandate".

Posted by DepotGuy 2006-08-17 12:45|| 2006-08-17 12:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Jacques Myard, an MP in France's governing UMP party and a member of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee

Jacques Myard is known, in France, for being an ultra-catholic antisemite. One week after the beginning of the war in Lebanon, he asked, in his French Parliament's blog, the French government to send the army into Lebanon to... fight Israel ! (You're not dreaming, that's real)

In his blog, Jacques Myard accused too the IDF of sending in Lebanon helicopters that were deliberately firing on Lebanese children and killing them at a range of less than 10 meters...

I sent him a satirical email to congratulate him for his rabid antisemitism that, as I said to him, "was directly inspired by the European medieval antisemitism that lead to the killing of hundreds of thousands of Jews".

He answered that he wasn't at all antisemite, of course, and so on. I answered that he was indeed antisemite, with some more blunt commentaries on his blog, and he didn't answer.

Posted by leroidavid">leroidavid 2006-08-17 13:50|| 2006-08-17 13:50|| Front Page Top

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