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2003-12-23 Europe

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Posted by JerseyMike 2003-12-23 2:51:14 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 When I saw the title of this post, I thought it meant there had been regime change in France. Alas, it was not to be.

Posted by Tibor 2003-12-23 2:55:57 PM|| 2003-12-23 2:55:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Den Beste's article on this is, as usual, worth a look.

Posted by BH 2003-12-23 3:02:35 PM|| 2003-12-23 3:02:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hell, this sounds so weird that maybe the Frogs did something right... NAW.

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-23 3:04:14 PM|| 2003-12-23 3:04:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 They're not being " punished for its stance on Iraq", they're being excluded from sensetive negotiations because they're a bunch of loud-mouths who're obviously on the OTHER side.

We didn't tell the freakin' Syrians or Iranians or Norks either. Figure it out, Dominique...

Posted by mojo 2003-12-23 3:11:19 PM|| 2003-12-23 3:11:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Beautiful. Please welcome Jacko and Little Nicky to the Wrong Side Of HistoryÂ©, ladies and gentlemen. Crow will be the main course, accompanied by a bitter cup of whine.

This should also be a stark reminder to the DNC about how a policy of "NON!" is usually doomed to failure.

Posted by 4thInfVet 2003-12-23 3:37:09 PM|| 2003-12-23 3:37:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Annick Lepetit, the Socialist party spokesman

Great name, what a scream....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-12-23 4:32:45 PM|| 2003-12-23 4:32:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually, several months ago Powell said France would pay a price. See, Dom and Jacques, Moamar was able to figure out that the AOW comprised sissies. How else do you explain that France initially accepted $34 million for UTA and we got 2.7 billion? You can bet Moamar had to chuckle over that. And then the French screaming that they wanted comparable money? Or they'd scuttle the US/Brit-Libya agreement in the UN?

AOW talked the talk in Iraq, but were Saddam and cronies saved? Moamar sure doesn't like us, but at least he respects us. He likes France but disrespects them. If you're Bush, how do you want to be considered?

Posted by Michael 2003-12-23 5:04:28 PM|| 2003-12-23 5:04:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I was watching French News last night and they were practically crying over Libya. The could not understand why Mumar would suddenly (and unilaterally) give up WMDs. France didn't get a chance to threaten them with their new Aircraft Carrier. Le besoin pour jouer notre jeu? Jouer avec notre balle et nos rÃ¨gles ou vous recevrez envoyÃ© aux douches. France still thinks it is relevant, don't tell them the truth!

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-12-23 5:08:49 PM|| 2003-12-23 5:08:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 But he was forced to admit in Le Figaro that France knew nothing of the nine months of secret negotiations.

"We were not kept informed,"

Goddamn straight. If the French would of been informed Everyfreaking body would of known about it

Posted by Cheddarhead 2003-12-23 5:35:26 PM|| 2003-12-23 5:35:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 wwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

French whine. AHHH. The taste that refreshes.

Posted by alaskasoldier 2003-12-23 6:58:04 PM|| 2003-12-23 6:58:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The latest target is the French aim to host an international experimental thermo-nuclear reactor in Cadarache. Pierre Lellouche, the French representative at the talks, said: "If at the end of the day the difficulties turn out not to be technical but political, weâll all have to draw our own conclusions."

So if the damn thing fizzles, it's Bush's fault?

Posted by Ptah 2003-12-23 9:56:21 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-12-23 9:56:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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