Posted on 06/09/2004 8:29:29 AM PDT by kattracks
Perhaps too busy still mourning the loss of his business partner Saddam Hussein, chief French quisling Jacques Chirac is not only refusing to attend former President Ronald Reagan's funeral on Friday, his government doesn't even list a representative who will attend.Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder are the only G-8 leaders who have confirmed plans to attend. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected as well, along with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles.
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin says he will not attend and is sending Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson. Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is expected.
Others on the list for the ceremony include former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Irish President Mary McAleese, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, South African President Thabo Mbeki, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Romanian President Ion Iliescu, Acting Lithuanian President Arturas Paulauskas, former Polish President Lech Walesa, former Finnish President Mauno Koivisto, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Australian Governor General Maj. Gen. Michael Jeffrey, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Slovakian President Rudolf Schuster, Grenadan Governor General Sir Daniel Williams, former Danish Prime Minister Poul Schlueter, Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Lars Engqvist and Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh.
De Gaulle also went to Eisenhower's funeral.
"Do you know who I am? I am Jacques Effen Kerry, and only I can step over le blue rope whilst le little people must remain behind le blue rope!! Quick, take le picture!"
"Why is theese little man behind me in le white shirt giving me le evil eye? Does he know who I am?"
Excuse me, but shouldn't there ne a "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey" alert on this thread
Well, at least the smelly, commie bastards know where they aren't wanted
They're just so much more sophisticated than we Americans!! /swimming in sarcasm
so glad my family left in 1640
There's an appropriate French insult to describe Monsieur Chirac: "Il pete plus haut que son cul." (He farts higher that his ass. Meaning, he's standing there with his ass stuck out back = he thinks higher of himself than he's worth.) (Accent egu on the "pete" pronounced "pet".)
Oops, 1940, my bad.
She's too frail to stand and speak at length after travelling, but was able to deliver a eulogy in a studio near her English home.
If you are still alive to read this, then you have already accomplished your wish!
You already have. They just haven't realized it yet.
}:-)4
French behavior is entirely explicable once you understand that the government has decided to align the country politically with the arabs. Try viewing the french through that political spectrum and their actions become transparent and entirely predictable, albeit still despicable and utterly shortsighted. Cozying up to scorpions is always a bad idea.
Just when they were about to win us over with their complete-with-drooling-and-fawning capitulation in the UN, they pull this. I guess this is to show the "French street" where his heart really is.
I know better, but for an instance the thought (wish?) flitted through my mind that Chirac was disinvited.
(Gaurd); "What?? What the hell is this idiot doing over the rope??"
I wish we could convice the Germans to invade again.
How nice....a Communist has more respect than our "ally".
graceful!
His loss. I suspect that Chirac would gain more from being seen on that list of luminaries than its other members would from being seen with him.
She taped her Eulogy for President Reagan some time ago in anticipation of this day.
Maybe they consider Kerry to be their representative?
Regards, Ivan
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