FRENCH FOR 'DENIAL

New York Post ^ | 1/03/04

[kattracks]

January 3, 2004 -- Now that it's become painfully obvious that France's hyperventilation over the U.S.-led effort that toppled Saddam Hussein was an exercise in political pig-headedness, are the holier-than-thou French ready to finally acknowledge their willful myopia? Guess again, mon ami.

[Wombat101]

Just what one would expect from a copuntry that has pre-printed surrender forms addressed "To Whom it May Concern...."

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[onyx]

So caught up were the reporters in the wave of opposition to the war that "as soon as there were a couple of wounded or dead, they were [making comparisons] to Vietnam and Stalingrad."

Vietnam? (Read: quagmire). Sounds like "some" in our media and ALL of the democrat hopefuls.

Indeed, he wrote, French journalists "dreamed of an American defeat."

Indeed, "some" American journalists and democrat candidates shared that same dream.

[Cvengr]

Its editors immediately fired him - citing "a lack of confidence" in his work, and claiming that he'd damaged the paper's reputation.

I've always noticed how when criticize, the leftist socialists react the most like totalitarians, rather than the savior-fairre, Johnnie-go-lightly's, they pretend to be as they criticize others.

[gcruse]

All except La Croix, Hertoghe's own paper, that is.

Its editors immediately fired him - citing "a lack of confidence"
 in his work, and claiming that he'd damaged the paper's reputation.

Also that he had gone against the newspaper's editorial policy.
Did you know La Croix is a Roman Catholic newspaper?
Where do you think the editors got their policy?
If a reporter traduced policy by reporting on anti-US screeds,
you can connect the dots between what the policy was, where
it came from, and why the Vatican has gone beyond craving
world peace to seeking to undermine the US.