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2006-03-18 Europe

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Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-18 10:23|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nice clean recitation of events regards la belle France and the cowboy America. I didn't know de Villepin fancied himself in the vein of Napoleon, LOL, but the rest is a solid fit. This is the sort of primer that the kooks I deal with need to begin teething. All they do is suck, at the moment, LOL.

Thanks for posting this, TW. I'll try it out on a few people. :)

Posted by Glunter Sneash8888 2006-03-18 11:46|| 2006-03-18 11:46|| Front Page Top

#2 "Nous sommes Americains (We are Americans)."

Sympathy, in many quarters, was nothing more than a flattering suit the Europeans tried on for a few days to impress each other. If sympathy was genuine, it wouldn't have dissolved so quickly or dissolved because we went into Afghanistan to hunt down the murderers.

Posted by Jules 2006-03-18 12:01|| 2006-03-18 12:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Jules,

That suit dissolved withing 48 hours...long before we went anywhere to battle the pigs.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2006-03-18 12:33|| 2006-03-18 12:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Same as the suit some people on Congress slipped into [because it was so 'european' to do so at the time] for about the same amount of time.

I'm thinking Kerry, Kennedy, etc....

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-03-18 12:41|| 2006-03-18 12:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Like secular Commies, the Muslims, i,e, God-based Socialists/Marxists/Bolsheviks, hacve no where to go but up - as illustrated by their demographic probs, or in the alt what both the Commies and Radical Islamists want America to unilater do, Westerm-Euro Socialists are "volunteering" to downwardly regress and, ultimately, to die. The Raddies = Commies > WIN BY DEFAULT, OR WIN AT MINIMUM COSTS!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-03-18 20:29|| 2006-03-18 20:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Newspaper headlines in Paris read: "Nous sommes Americains (We are Americans)."

That was in hopes that the U.S. would place its vast assets at the disposal and command of the UN. That hope vanished when the U.S. essentially dusted itself off, shook Europe's hand and said "thanks for the sympathy - but we've work to do".

Posted by Pappy 2006-03-18 20:30|| 2006-03-18 20:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Regards from Chen Keinan, Euros.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-03-18 22:15|| 2006-03-18 22:15|| Front Page Top

#8 grom, can you send me an email?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-03-18 22:19|| 2006-03-18 22:19|| Front Page Top

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