Chirac Refuses to Attend Reagan's Funeral

Newsmax.com ^ | 6/09/04 | Carl Limbacher and theNewsmax.com staff

[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.

[Paul Atreides]

After we raid the Louvre.

[Dog Gone]

You must be one of the 7%.

Polling Data

The next presidential elections in the United States will take place in November. Would you like to see George W. Bush re-elected as president?

Yes	7%
No	84%

Source: Ipsos / Le Journal du Dimanche
Methodology: Interviews to 942 French adults, conducted on May 21 and May 22, 2004. No margin of error was provided.

[sarasota]

My reaction as well. The gutless wonder is afraid to fly.

[samadams2000]

Attention Freepers!

PLEASE EXTEND FRENCH GOODS BOYCOTT ANOTHER YEAR

..like we were about to buy their stuff anytime soon.

Remember the Sons of Liberty!

[Republic]

Don't know about the rest of you, but thinking about Chirac being there is not unlike thinking about kerry, kennedy and the klintons being there. I am delighted Chirac is not going to attend, there will be enough folks there as VIP's who did not respect Reagan-but want the face time. The fakeness of it is uncomfortable.

[Allegra]

After we raid the Louvre.

And a few choice wine cellars.

[Cobra64]

Welcome back, Ivan! Has something been wrong with you, or a loved one?

I was wondering the same thing. He's been sorely missed for a long time.

[Arrowhead1952]

Jacques Chirac refuses to attend President Reagan's funeral ping

Think anyone will notice?????

[Diva Betsy Ross]

was he invited?

[Helms]

"I believe he could easily bribe the Chinese and the Russians into kicking the French off the UN Security Council and replacing them with the Germans. The Germans would be enthusiastic about joining, and thus it would split the Franco-German alliance. "

What goes around comes around, sometimes with greater mass and velocity.

Make it so!

[Paul Atreides]

I have an idea: I've heard that Fr*nce has beautiful countrysides, such as Provence. Why don't we just kick out the Fr*nch (like they would put up a fight!), and establish the entire country as a vacation resort.

[Allegra]

Don't know about the rest of you, but thinking about Chirac being there is not unlike thinking about kerry, kennedy and the klintons being there. I am delighted Chirac is not going to attend, there will be enough folks there as VIP's who did not respect Reagan-but want the face time. The fakeness of it is uncomfortable.

Oh, I agree.

It's just that the thought of nuking France is kind of fun. Any excuse...

People are always wanting to nuke where I am. I'm just joining the crowd.

:-)

[grayeagle]

French is my new F word.

French the French.

[b9]

I hope there's not some nefarious reason for him not attending.

There will no doubt be the tightest security imaginable.

[Paul Atreides]

See post #40.

[MARTIAL MONK]

Somehow this brings back pleasant memories of last summer. A hot summer night...fishing poles...lanterns...cold beer. Lightning bugs flitting above the water and frogs croaking by the hundreds across the pond...

[Question_Assumptions]

We really need to get the UK out of the EU and into an alliance with the US.

[andy58-in-nh]

One thing I simply do not understand is why Kerry seems to regard the French as an ally worth courting.

I think the answer is that Men (and I use that term loosely) of the Left such as Kerry do not view the French as an ally so much as a role model. Postmodern metrosexual-types all seem to approach life with the same sort of world-weary, cynical, dismissive haughtiness that is virtually indistinguishable from modern French Culture. "Ah, if only we Americans could be more like our Gaullic brothers and sisters, we'd be...", err, well, what we'd be is less creative, less motivated, less free, and less bathed and showered than we are now. And who wants that?

[paul51]

Chirac Refuses to Attend Reagan's Funeral

Probably can't afford the air transportation cost.

[Arrowhead1952]

was he invited?

I think it is common courtesy for leaders to attend or to send a rep.