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THEY'VE SURRENDERED, LET'S ATTACK!
World Net Daile ^ | Dec. 20, 2001 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 12/20/2001 12:17:57 AM PST by jslade

They've surrendered, let's attack!

By Ann Coulter

© 2001 Universal Press Syndicate

As pundits mull whether America's next target in the war on terrorism should be Iraq or a smaller quarry first – such as the Sudan or Somalia – it's time to consider another petri dish of ferocious anti-American hatred and terrorist activity. The Bush doctrine is: We are at war not only with the terrorists, but also with those who harbor them.

We've got to attack France.

Having exhausted itself in a spirited fight with the Nazis in the last war, France cannot work up the energy to oppose terrorism. For decades now, France has nurtured, coddled and funded Islamic terrorists. (Moreover, the Great Satan is getting a little sick of our McDonald's franchises being attacked on behalf of notoriously inefficient French dairy farmers.)

At the 1972 Olympics, Muslim terrorists assassinated 11 Israeli athletes and one German policeman. Five years later, acting on intelligence from Israeli secret police, French counterespionage agents arrested the reputed mastermind of the massacre, Abu Daoud. Both Israel and West Germany sought the extradition of Daoud. Afraid of upsetting Muslim terrorists, France refused on technical grounds and set him free.

In 1986, Libyan agents of Moammar Gadhafi planted a bomb in a West Berlin discotheque, killing an American serviceman and a Turkish woman. Hundreds more were injured. President Reagan retaliated with air strikes against Libyan military targets – including Gadhafi's living quarters.

Quaking in the face of this show of manly force, France denied America the use of its airspace. As a consequence, American pilots were required to begin their missions from airbases in Britain. When the pilots finally made it to Tripoli, tired from the long flights and showing a puckish sense of humor, they bombed the French embassy by mistake. POW! So sorry, our mistake.

France has repeatedly decried economic sanctions against Iraq and has accused the United Nations of manufacturing evidence against Saddam Hussein. The U.N., not even the Great Satan. The French U.N. ambassador dismissed aerial photographs of Iraqi military trucks fleeing inspections sites just before U.N. weapons inspectors arrived as – quote – "perhaps a truckers' picnic."

Along with the rest of the European Union, France sends millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority every year. Sucking up to the P.A. has really paid dividends to the craven butterbellies. While visiting Arafat in Gaza last year to announce several million more dollars in aid, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin was attacked by angry, stone-throwing Palestinian students.

Earlier this year, France connived with human-rights champions China and Cuba to toss the United States off the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Sudan took America's place, and, if its diplomats are not too bogged down with human torture and slave trading, they are very much looking forward to attending the meetings.

This summer, Paris made Mumia Abu-Jamal an honorary citizen of Paris. In America's cowboy, bloodlust, rush-to-judgment approach to the death penalty, this convicted Philadelphia cop-killer has been sitting on death row – and giving radio interviews and college commencement addresses – for 20 years. Since "Mumia" sounds like a Muslim terrorist, Parisians can use the same bumper stickers for the war.

Two weeks into America's war on terrorism, Le Figaro began calling for "American restraint." In polls, 47 percent of the French said they believed the U.S. military action was failing. Seventeen percent thought it was working (which was – admittedly – 17 percent more than on the New York Times editorial page). Flaunting France's well-established reputation as a fearsome fighting machine, the French foreign minister, Hubert Vedrine, immediately advised the United States to stop bombing Afghanistan.

The first indictment to come out of the Sept. 11 attacks was of a French national, Zacarias Moussaoui. He is believed to be the intended 20th hijacker on Bloody Tuesday. France quickly moved to extend consular protection for Moussaoui. Intriguingly, French Justice Minister Marylise Lebranchu has demanded that Moussaoui not be executed.

Mlle. Lebranchu seems to have forgotten, but WE ARE THE GREAT SATAN! We also have Moussaoui. It's annoying enough when these celebrated Nazi slayers refuse to extradite terrorists on the grounds that America does not observe the pristine judicial formalities of their pals, China, Cuba and the Sudan. But under what zany theory of international law does France think it can tell us what to do with a terrorist we caught right here on U.S. soil?

The Great Satan is wearying of this reverse hegemony, in which little pipsqueak nations try to impose their pipsqueak values on us. Aren't we the ones who should be arrogantly oppressing countries that unaccountably do not have the death penalty?

And now, as America goes about building support for an attack on Iraq – guess who's complaining? The turtlenecked chickens are terrified of offending fanatical Muslims and inviting a terrorist attack, but Arab leaders are supposed to face down the vastly larger populations of crazies living in their own countries. While France whines, Turkey – a predominantly Muslim country, I note – is preparing its airstrips for a possible U.S. attack on Iraq.

If this is a war against terrorism and not a Eurocentric war against Islam, the conclusion is ineluctable: We must attack France. What are they going to do? Fight us?


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The French are worthless. The cheese eating surrender monkeys are our enemies. They are socialist/marxist.
1 posted on 12/20/2001 12:17:57 AM PST by jslade
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To: jslade
Now, now, Ann. Not all the Frogs are bad. Take my poodle for instance.
2 posted on 12/20/2001 12:27:02 AM PST by poetknowit
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To: jslade
" . . .these celebrated Nazi slayers . . ."

ROFLMAO!

3 posted on 12/20/2001 12:34:47 AM PST by Neanderthal
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To: jslade
My Grandfather fought along side French units in WWI. For the rest of his life you could not speak of France in front of him. Hopeless whimps. France has never lived down, (nor ever will) the fact that of all the victorious allies, they are the ones who gave up to the Nazis.
4 posted on 12/20/2001 12:36:02 AM PST by M.K. Borders
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..the French are worthless. The cheese eating surrender monkeys are our enemies. They are socialist/marxist....

Well said!

By the way buddy, you dropped these on your last thread.


5 posted on 12/20/2001 12:39:57 AM PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
I was looking for something that said this was a humor topic. Obviously it's not. This woman needs help.
6 posted on 12/20/2001 12:49:33 AM PST by bluester
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To: jslade
In 1942, four airmen and an engineer made their escape from the Phillipines by boat.
They finally reached Tourane (now Do Nang), on the coast of what is now Vietnam.

They went to see Indochina's Governor General, Vice Admiral Jean Decoux.
The men were counting on French honor and chivalry. But this Frenchman was VICHY French - a cheese-eating TRAITOR. He received the men with red-carpet treatment, then turned them over to the tender mercies of the Japanese. They spent the rest of the war building the Thai "Railroad of Death".

7 posted on 12/20/2001 12:55:30 AM PST by petuniasevan
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To: bluester
..this woman needs help....

Well, Miss Coulter's a Freeper, so let's not be too harsh with one of our own. I think the problem with the piece is that it's not funny enough to be called funny, and not serious enough to be taken seriously. Hey, we all have our off days.

8 posted on 12/20/2001 1:04:29 AM PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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..my Grandfather fought along side French units in WWI. For the rest of his life you could not speak of France in front of him. Hopeless whimps....

What a pathetic and contemptible creature you are. That goes double for your damned grandfather.

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...Battle of Verdun (Feb. 21-Nov. 26, 1916)Battle of Verdun, an unsuccessful German effort to take the offensive in the west, was one of the longest and bloodiest encounters of the war.

Total casualties have been estimated at about 542,000 French and about 434,000 Germans. About 1 million soldiers plus 25,000- 30,000 civilians...

http://killeenroos.com/5/WW1Bat.htm

9 posted on 12/20/2001 1:12:22 AM PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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To: poetknowit
We Kahane supporters have been attacked on by the many who hate Jews in this forum; however, I'll have you know that when the French denied us airspace when Reagan was President, we Kahane people staged a protest in front of the French Consulate located in Communist Massachusetts.

We dragged the French tri color on the ground during the protest and we tried to burn wine and cheese in front of that French diplomatic house

So there!

10 posted on 12/20/2001 1:25:43 AM PST by UbIwerks
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We must attack France

Drop leaflets threatening to force the entire country to dress in polyester. Wrap said leaflets around bottles of Cheeze-Whiz. I think they'll get the message.

11 posted on 12/20/2001 1:29:54 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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France had a hole punched in its valour during and after the First World War. After that war, you see a lot of philosophers emerge in Paris who said that surrender and defeat is better than war. They have never recovered from this. In a way, I pity them for that. On the other hand, Britain suffered just as badly from the First World War and we fought the paper hanging bastard when he came along.

Regards, Ivan

FreeBritannia.co.uk
12 posted on 12/20/2001 1:38:14 AM PST by MadIvan
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To: Madame Dufarge
Let's ban Truffles. 8vD
13 posted on 12/20/2001 2:05:22 AM PST by cavador
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
America had a civil war. How many lives were lost at Antietem? Gettysburg? Spotslyvania?

Did Grant give up the war after Cold Harbor? He was accused of being a butcher for not doing so.

France is not the only country that suffered horribly in war. America still retained its fighting spirit for the Spanish American war and those thereafter (except Vietnam, which we seemed to have recovered from somewhat).

14 posted on 12/20/2001 2:23:12 AM PST by UbIwerks
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BUMP
15 posted on 12/20/2001 2:25:35 AM PST by nopardons
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To: lazamataz
Your input needed!
16 posted on 12/20/2001 2:31:47 AM PST by dennisw
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To: UbIwerks
France lost one and a half million dead in that war. In the first year of it, one-half of all French families received 'the telegram.'

Who do you filthy bastards think you are, sitting in front of your computers and insulting their memory??

Just bloody shut up.

17 posted on 12/20/2001 2:35:28 AM PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
France lost one and a half million dead in that war. In the first year of it, one-half of all French families received 'the telegram.' Who do you filthy bastards think you are, sitting in front of your computers and insulting their memory?? Just bloody shut up. Yeppers. American casualities don't mean a thing, eh?

Well...they do mean something. France's actions have been repulsive and they should be called on the carpet for it.

If they're so shell shocked over WWI still, then maybe America should take over that country until they get the appropriate therapy to recover.

Etas Unis au moi.

18 posted on 12/20/2001 2:43:33 AM PST by UbIwerks
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
Who do you filthy bastards think you are, sitting in front of your computers and insulting their memory? Just bloody shut up.

Byron: for once I agree with you.
19 posted on 12/20/2001 2:50:14 AM PST by jjbrouwer
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
"France lost one and a half million dead in that war. In the first year of it, one-half of all French families received 'the telegram.'"

And, for nearly the last year of the war, almost the entire French Army was in a state of mutiny and completely non-combat worthy.

Again, as was stated earlier, the Brits lost nearly just as many man, with a far smaller population base, and yet had the guts to not only continue to fight in WWI to the very end but to face the Nazis (and their French "allies") for almost two years on their own before the Americans entered the war.

Screw the French.

20 posted on 12/20/2001 2:56:22 AM PST by BlueLancer
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