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Chirac Refuses to Attend Reagan's Funeral
Newsmax.com ^ | 6/09/04 | Carl Limbacher and theNewsmax.com staff

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.



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To: Semper Paratus

De Gaulle also went to Eisenhower's funeral.


41 posted on 06/09/2004 8:43:45 AM PDT by Revenge of Sith
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To: kattracks
Quite suprising since their comrade Jacques Effen Kerry had no problem showing his respects, if you can call a blatant photo op "respect".

 

"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?"


42 posted on 06/09/2004 8:44:11 AM PDT by stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims (I`m still waiting for the protests against terrorism.)
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To: kattracks

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


43 posted on 06/09/2004 8:44:15 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Now... There you go again!)
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To: Protagoras

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".)


44 posted on 06/09/2004 8:44:19 AM PDT by Ciexyz ("FR, best viewed with a budgie on hand")
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To: Protagoras

Oops, 1940, my bad.


45 posted on 06/09/2004 8:44:23 AM PDT by Protagoras (government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." ...Ronald Reagan, 1981)
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To: BibChr

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.


46 posted on 06/09/2004 8:44:32 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Don't blame me. I voted for Sharpton.)
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To: Paul Atreides
Please, let me live to see the Fr*nch degrade into oblivion.

If you are still alive to read this, then you have already accomplished your wish!

47 posted on 06/09/2004 8:45:02 AM PDT by Itzlzha (The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote!)
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To: kattracks
Appears that Chirac still has not removed the bug that crawled up his arse a year and a half ago. He really should get that looked at. But what do I know, I'm only an American citizen.
48 posted on 06/09/2004 8:45:17 AM PDT by PigRigger (Send donations to http://www.AdoptAPlatoon.org)
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To: Paul Atreides
Please, let me live to see the Fr*nch degrade into oblivion.

You already have. They just haven't realized it yet.

}:-)4

49 posted on 06/09/2004 8:46:32 AM PDT by Moose4 (Yes, it's just an excuse for me to post more pictures of my cats. Deal with it.)
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To: kattracks

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.


50 posted on 06/09/2004 8:46:49 AM PDT by JeeperFreeper
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To: kattracks

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.


51 posted on 06/09/2004 8:48:10 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Yitgadal v'yitgadash Shmei Raba)
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To: MadIvan

I know better, but for an instance the thought (wish?) flitted through my mind that Chirac was disinvited.


52 posted on 06/09/2004 8:48:30 AM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: MadIvan
Sorry, to hear about your troubles. I hope things look up for you. In any case, it is great to have you back. Also, our prayers for Lady Thatcher.
53 posted on 06/09/2004 8:48:32 AM PDT by Paul Atreides (Didn't your father tell you that unnecessary excerpting will make you go blind?)
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To: stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims

(Gaurd); "What?? What the hell is this idiot doing over the rope??"

54 posted on 06/09/2004 8:48:32 AM PDT by stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims (I`m still waiting for the protests against terrorism.)
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To: kattracks

I wish we could convice the Germans to invade again.


55 posted on 06/09/2004 8:48:39 AM PDT by theDentist (John Kerry never saw a TAX he wouldn't HIKE !!!)
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To: Paul Atreides
Mikhail Gorbachev will attend

How nice....a Communist has more respect than our "ally".

graceful!

56 posted on 06/09/2004 8:49:47 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: kattracks

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.


57 posted on 06/09/2004 8:50:15 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: BibChr
THey determined that Lady Thatcher's health was not good enough for the strain of actually speaking at the ceremony.

She taped her Eulogy for President Reagan some time ago in anticipation of this day.

58 posted on 06/09/2004 8:50:22 AM PDT by commish (Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
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To: kattracks
his government doesn't even list a representative who will attend

Maybe they consider Kerry to be their representative?

59 posted on 06/09/2004 8:50:23 AM PDT by Wissa
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To: Carolinamom
I don't think Chirac would have not been invited. Mrs. Reagan is far too elegant to have committed such an error in manners. Thus Chirac is being rude on his own.

Regards, Ivan

60 posted on 06/09/2004 8:50:55 AM PDT by MadIvan (Ronald Reagan - proof positive that one man can indeed change the world.)
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