Rice offers France the hand of friendship

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 02/09/05 | Colin Randall

[popdonnelly]

And what is Barbara Boxer doing tonight?

[Almondjoy]

Will be all cozy and friends until it's time for war with Iran.

[SF Republican]

One can wonder of the irony which is dripping from the phrase: A poll conducted for the German Marshall Fund. Would there be any connection to the Marshall Plan?

[Czar]

I like "...punish France... much better. To be fair, circumstances change and Bush may have altered course on France for valid reasons involving America's best interests. My policy on France, however, will not change. Anything French will continue to be banned around here.

[Capriole]

Hey, Colin, you ill-mannered brute, that's Doctor Rice, not Miss Rice.

[PeterFinn]

"Rice offers France the hand of friendship"

Hope she washes up right after.

[planekT]

"Rice offers France the hand of friendship "

I just wanted to make sure she still had her hand.

[QQQQQ]

"extending an elegant hand of friendship to France"


Any guess about how long, before the French will bite the hand extended to them in friendship?

My guess is about 2.5 minutes, we just haven't found out about it yet.

[ml1954]

Did she also give them back the knife they stuck in Colin Powell's back?

This is all for show. We are again on a collision course with France over Iran. The French never change. They're in full 1930's appeasement mode.

[swilhelm73]

Well, Powell took the word of the French over the Iraq war, namely that they would abstain in an UNSC vote and nothing more, and we see were that got us...

[jonrick46]

"But she said little to suggest that behind the charm offensive was anything but steely resolve on the part of the Bush administration to maintain its chosen course on world events."

Such a sexist comment from a journalist who would have been tarred and feathered in his liberal journalism school for such a remark. This is an example of the liberty the left is able to take as they write about the Right (especially the Bush Administration). However when used anywhere else it would cause instant termination of employment if it were from a conservative (I cite the University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill vs. Rush Limbaugh as an example).

It is a matter of fact that all diplomats put on a good face while promoting their country's agenda with "steel resolve." That is what their country pays them for.

[sarasmom]

Ditto.
And if the Europeans ever actually become "United", and still include France....

[cyborg]

Muttering to herself.

[Porterville]

I'd like to offer france the one finger salute.

[cyborg]

:o)

[Paul_Denton]

The EU wants to lift the China Arms embargo!? We need to be targeting nukes at them.

[dervish]

Why???

[Ciexyz]

Why does the writer call her "Miss" Rice? It's like nails grating on a chalkboard.
Why not use her title, Dr. Rice?

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Republique Francaise?

I probably would have given it the greeting reserved for less notable dignitaries that visited New York City during the Giuliani administration.