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PRESS RELEASE September 23, 2004 Burn Baby Burn KOLE joins FOX’s Bill O’Reilly in his France Boycott Beaumont, Texas – KOLE (News Radio FOX 1340/1380 AM) FOX Morning Blend host Dominick Brascia announced this morning on his radio show that he will burn the flag of France and will join Bill O’Reilly of FOX News in his effort to boycott France. Brascia, along with co-hosts Debbie Wylde and Jeff Roberts, got angry after learning that, again, France was standing in the way of America’s War on Terrorism in Iraq. After putting together a list of all the problems America has...

The United States stood by for years as supposed allies helped its enemies obtain the world's most dangerous weapons, reveals Bill Gertz, defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times, in the new book "Treachery" (Crown Forum). In this excerpt, he details France's persistence in arming Saddam Hussein.         First of three excerpts              New intelligence revealing how long France continued to supply and arm Saddam Hussein's regime infuriated U.S. officials as the nation prepared for military action against Iraq. The intelligence reports showing French assistance to Saddam ongoing in the late winter of 2002 helped explain why France refused...

Changing tastes, falling consumption create difficulty for small wineries. LISTRAC-MEDOC, France - Maryse Meyre is bewildered. Her family has been successfully making wine for five generations here in France's world-famous Bordeaux region. But in the last few years, sales have crashed. "It's a catastrophe," she said as she escorted visitors through the fragrant winery, with its rooms full of oak barrels and shelves of vintages dating to 1929. "I don't understand, because we have changed nothing. On the contrary, the wine is better, because we have better technology." That may be true, but it hasn't staved off a crisis in...

Their resistance to helping in Afghanistan and Iraq is now downright dangerous It is easy to make fun of the French and their pompous pretense to the grandeur they shed a half-century ago when their loss of honor under Vichy, and then their loss of empire, relegated them to the rank of second-class power. But the fun is over. Before Sept. 11, France's Gaullist anti-Americanism as a form of ostentatious self-aggrandizement was an irritant. With a war on — three, in fact: Afghanistan, Iraq and the larger war on terrorism — France's willful obstructionism becomes dangerous and deadly. That obstructionism...

Enough with France. That country is not a friend to the U.S.A. or to peace-seeking Iraqis and Afghans. French President Jacques Chirac continues to block efforts by the U.S.A. and Britain to bring stability to former dictatorships and make it more difficult for homicidal terrorists to operate. Take a look at Chirac's recent résumé: * Last week, he blocked a newly created NATO strike force from going to Afghanistan to provide extra security for elections. Chirac said: "[The strike force] should not be used for troop shortages on routine operations." * Chirac continues to insist that any NATO training of...

ISTANBUL, June 28 (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac said on Monday he was opposed to a formal role for NATO inside Iraq, just hours after the 26-nation alliance agreed to help train security forces of the new Baghdad government. "I do not believe it is (NATO's) mission to intervene in Iraq," Chirac told a news conference during an alliance summit in Istanbul. He said a formal NATO presence in Iraq would "not be in keeping" with the decision taken by alliance leaders earlier.

NATO struggled to overcome old divisions over Iraq yesterday, with France still blocking plans for the alliance to play a major role in training Iraq’s new armed forces. Despite public talk of agreement on the training mission, it was clear that the 36 members of the alliance had very different views on where the training would be carried out, whether it would be carried out under NATO auspices and how many personnel would be involved. The dispute came as a new hostage crisis was emerging in Iraq apparently involving a US marine. Al-Jazeera broadcast a videotape showing what it said...

Chirac leads resistance as Bush courts Nato allies Ian Black and Michael White in Istanbul Monday June 28, 2004 The Guardian President George Bush was facing stiff French-led resistance last night to his efforts to persuade his Nato allies to agree to train Iraqi security forces. The French president, Jacques Chirac, is determined to thwart any deal that allows the US and Britain to claim that the alliance has a formal role in the disputed occupation. Tony Blair flew into Istanbul last night intent on talking up the summit's chance of achieving even a modest success in respect of Iraq...

Frig the frogs. Screway les Français. If not for us France — a countrylet that can't pronounce the word "loyalty" — would be a suburb of Germany. I realize this emotionally misdirected anger should be at those sickos who committed last week's unspeakable atrocity against another American. And it should be at the Saudis, who have their fingers into everything but Al Qaeda. And that ought to give you a clue as to where the Saudis should really stick their fingers. And that includes their Washington ambassador, oily Prince Bandar, who's so tight in high places that he does drop-in...

PARIS - Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, in an interview published Thursday, compared Iraq (news - web sites) to a "black hole that is sucking up" the world and said France would at no time send in troops. Barnier, who travels to the United Nations (news - web sites) Friday for talks on Iraq, expressed alarm about "the spiral of horror" that is gaining ground and the loss of human dignity as violence progresses. In an interview with the daily Le Monde, he made a "call to reason and conscience." He also stressed that Iraqis must be given authentic sovereignty after...

British intelligence agencies are furious with their French counterparts after being refused assistance in their efforts to track terrorists in this country linked to the Madrid bombers. The row has led to the worst rift between British and French intelligence agencies for years and is hindering attempts to trace connections between Moroccans involved in the Madrid bombs and Islamic militants in Britain. A senior Home Office official said: "We are getting very good co-operation from the Moroccans and the Spanish but there appears to be a hiccup with the French." David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, is seeking to repair the...

For Secretary of State Colin Powell, the U.S.-French divorce began on Jan. 20, 2003, when French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin blindsided him during a press conference outside the U.N. After a special session of the Security Council devoted to the war on terror, held at de Villepin's personal request, Powell had driven over to the French U.N. ambassador's official Park Avenue residence, where de Villepin was to host him to an exclusive lunch. Instead, de Villepin stayed behind at the U.N. and announced to the world that France would never support a U.S.-led military intervention against Saddam Hussein. As...

The French Betrayal of America by Kenneth Timmerman (Author) Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Crown Forum; (March 16, 2004) ISBN: 1400053668 Inside Flap Copy Can we trust France? Apparently not. After more than 200 years of shared history and interests, the U.S.-France marriage looks as if it's ending in an acrimonious divorce. Here is the shocking insider account. In the wake of French behavior at the United Nations, where Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin systematically undermined the efforts of Secretary of State Colin Powell to convince the Security Council to authorize force against Iraq, Americans have at best come to suspect...

France - Pas Comme Les Autres Joe Katzman by "Gabriel Gonzalez" (Paris, France) After reading Kenneth Timmerman's condemnation of France's $100 billion profiteering from Saddam's cruel regime (The French War For Oil), and my own recent article (From Madrid to Paris), some commentators expressed the view that France is just an ordinary country defending its interests and is no different than any other country, including the U.S. Indeed, for some in the anti-war camp France is even assumed to be necessarily a morally superior nation. This view is so thoroughly ignorant of French foreign policy realities that it should really...

Kenneth Timmerman is on the Al Rantel show right now . . . . . www.kabc.com to hear internet feed. The French believe in blood for oil. Over a seven-year period, they had a 100 billion dollar oil deal with Hussein!

Well, it appears that France has continued its policy of opposing everything the US supports. This time they are joining forces with China to have joint naval exercies on the eve of elections in Taiwan. China regularly engaes in military execrises or tests when Taiwan has elections. Most notable of them being the 1996 missles tests that forced Clinton to send warships into the region. China has made no secret of the fact that these types of tests are intended to intimidate Taiwan.

Spain's new Prime Minister wasted no time yesterday shaking up the European political landscape, putting Madrid back in the Franco-German camp and urging a swift adoption of the stalled Eurpoean constitution. The election poll was held three days after the Madrid train bombings, in which 201 people died.Voter anger at the Aznar government's blaming of local separatist group ETA, despite evidence that Islamic terrorist were responsible.Mr. Aznar's departure is a blow to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. One of Mr. Zapatero's senior lieutenants, Jose Bono, recently called the British Prime Minister a 'gilipollas' which can be translated as 'd*ckhead.'

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                      Contact: Teresa Brady                                                                                                           (212) 572-2598                                                                                                           tbrady@randomhouse.com     THE FRENCH BETRAYAL      OF AMERICA      EXPLOSIVE NEW BOOK SHOWS WHY OUR FORMER          FRIEND IS NOW WORKING TO UNDERMINE THE             U.S. WAR ON TERROR   INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER KENNETH TIMMERMAN GIVES A    SHOCKING ACCOUNT OF HOW OUR LONGSTANDING ALLY HAS           BECOME AN ADVERSARY AND HOW AMERICA STILL     CONTINUES TO SHARE NUCLEAR SECRETS WITH FRANCE        “Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an            accordion.  You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.”           -Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, 1989-1992 Last year Americans watched with revulsion...

WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- The United States Monday urged the European Union not to lift an arms embargo again China, citing Beijing's human rights record. "I expressed concern that the European Union might lift its arms embargo," Secretary of State Colin Powell said at a joint news conference with top EU officials following their meeting. "We and the European Union imposed prohibitions for the same reasons, most especially China's serious human rights abuses, and we believe that those reasons remain valid today." France wants to lift the sanctions, which were imposed following Beijing's 1989 crackdown of students in Tiananmen...

PARIS, Feb 25 (Reuters) - France, the world's top tourist destination, suffered a drop in visitors and tourism revenues in 2003 as concerns over the war in Iraq and a weak dollar kept away U.S. visitors, official figures showed on Wednesday. Foreign tourists dropped by 2.6 percent to 75 million last year from 77 million in 2002 in what was a poor year for global tourism, junior minister for tourism Leon Bertrand said. U.S. visitors fell 18.3 percent to 2.4 million in 2003, when the dollar fell and relations between Paris and Washington soured over France's opposition to the U.S.-led...