Posted on 02/21/2005 2:22:58 PM PST by Kitten Festival
"In a new century, the alliance of America and Europe is the main pillar of our security," - President George W. Bush, Brussels, February 21, 2005
Seeing our graceful new Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dancing her diplomatic minuet in Paris reminds me of a Woody Allen story about Sigmund Freud’s most neurotic patient. After years of wrestling with this man’s demented soul, Freud finally decided to call an end to the therapy. So he declared his patient to be cured and sane. Except for one little thing --- Freud would never turn his back to him. Europe is like that. Americans would like to think that Europeans are our good friends, but can we really turn our back on them without getting that itchy feeling between our shoulder blades?
We know today that Colin Powell was set-up by Jacques Chirac in the run-up to the Iraq invasion. Powell was fed forged documents claiming that Saddam attempted to buy yellow cake uranium from Niger. He cited them in his speech at the UN, and was deeply embarrassed the following day when “European secret services” revealed them to be forgeries.
Now we know those fakes came from our good friends, the French.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Poland, Italy, Uzbek, Netherlands, Britain, Ukraine et al... No need to obsess over France. ;)
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