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2005-11-04 Europe

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Posted by john 2005-11-04 14:24|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Is Paris Burning?

One of the more interesting casting choices by the producers : Kirk Douglas as General Patton.

Posted by BigEd 2005-11-04 15:14|| 2005-11-04 15:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Chirac will hoist the white flag in 5...4....3....

Posted by usmc6743 2005-11-04 15:42|| 2005-11-04 15:42|| Front Page Top

#3 This could easily happen in Bradford or Birmingham in the uk, the difference being, Tony Blair knows the score with the muzzies and would send in the army.

Posted by General Bulge 2005-11-04 15:47|| 2005-11-04 15:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Right oh Brigadier! Monty went to France to bail them out, before it's over, he might be asked to come again!

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-04 15:52|| 2005-11-04 15:52|| Front Page Top

#5 ....a committee of sheiks, mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood, to negotiate an end to the hostilities.

But of course they are.

President Jacques Chirac and Premier de Villepin are especially sore because they had believed that their opposition to the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003 would give France a heroic image in the Muslim community.

Certainly; if your definition of "heroic image" is "ripe for the taking."

Posted by Secret Master 2005-11-04 15:59|| 2005-11-04 15:59|| Front Page Top

#6 While it certainly appears that the French government are trying to work out the most nuanced plan of surrender, I'm clinging to the hope that they're actually playing for time and mobilising their troops for the mother of all crackdowns, whilst simultaneously negotiating with the US about the possibility of exporting a few million guest workers to Iraq.

Posted by TerminalDecline 2005-11-04 16:28|| 2005-11-04 16:28|| Front Page Top

#7 They need a Muslim Jesse Jackson to broker the peace.

*snicker!*

Posted by PlanetDan 2005-11-04 16:32|| 2005-11-04 16:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Is Paris Burning?

I really don't care ... burn it all to the ground!

Posted by Uleating Wheagum6743 2005-11-04 17:42|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2005-11-04 17:42|| Front Page Top

#9 8 nights = full blown insurrection.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-11-04 17:51|| 2005-11-04 17:51|| Front Page Top

#10 The creation of Islamic enclaves in any western city/country is a bad idea (and we've got them in the US). As we witness this "uprising" against the "occupiers" of France (?) and Denmark (?) we see that it's only a matter of time before more Moslems adopt the political/philosophical/religious-based "ideal" of an "Islamic WORLD." All non-Moslems are aggresive "occupiers." The other point is that France and Denmark are "trial runs" regarding what, exactly, would happen in Euro countries if the Islamics start a "revolution."

Posted by ex-lib 2005-11-04 18:24|| 2005-11-04 18:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Funny thing about gangs, when you shoot a few of the frontrunners, the whole group disperses.

Fire at will boys.

EP

Posted by ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-11-04 18:33|| 2005-11-04 18:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Gun them down in the streets and leave their bodies to rot. It's going to take that to teach the Muzzies who's boss and to let them know they damned well better shut up and head quietly to the boats sending them back to Africa.

Posted by mac 2005-11-04 18:42|| 2005-11-04 18:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Article: The troubles first began in Clichy-sous-Bois, an underprivileged suburb east of Paris, a week ago. France's bombastic interior minister, Nicholas Sarkozy, responded by sending over 400 heavily armed policemen to "impose the laws of the republic," and promised to crush "the louts and hooligans" within the day. Within a few days, however, it had dawned on anyone who wanted to know that this was no "outburst by criminal elements" that could be handled with a mixture of braggadocio and batons.

Batons + blanks = heavily armed? What is this guy on about? When I think of heavily-armed French police, I think of that scene from the beginning of La Femme Nikita, when sub-machine gun wielding cops take down Nikita's companions. So much for the much-vaunted repressive powers of the French state.

Posted by Elmenter Snineque1852 2005-11-04 21:33|| 2005-11-04 21:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Clearly Chirac needs to remove his occupying police forces from the insurgents territory. That's the only way to insure peace. He should withdraw them to the sites of the (future) Notre Dame Mosque and the Eiffel Minaret

Posted by DMFD 2005-11-04 22:42|| 2005-11-04 22:42|| Front Page Top

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