| playing the anti-American card is seen in political circles here as Chirac's strongest position as he prepares to run for a third five-year term in 2007.
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Posted on 11/28/2004 9:22:01 PM PST by quidnunc
Paris – U.S. diplomats here respond to Jacques Chirac's continued Yankee-bashing following George W. Bush's re-election by saying the French president is out of step with his people, who are not nearly that anti-American. But thoughtful Frenchmen believe President Chirac is mining a deep vein of sentiment among fellow citizens that transcends President Bush.
During a week in Paris, I encountered none of the rudeness I had been warned to expect because of my nationality. However, the question goes beyond amenities to visitors. One French intellectual described anti-Americanism to me as "a cancer that is sweeping across the country." It may not be as deadly as cancer, but it surely is not healthy for France.
The chronic nature of French hostility toward the United States contradicts claims by Bush's domestic critics that his unilateral policies caused deterioration of Franco-American relations. It is less the U.S. with a French problem than France burdened with a serious American problem.
On his recent visit to London, Chirac pressed for "multipolarity": a return to international rivalries that produced the carnage of the 20th century. He also suggested there was no point trying to repair his country's difficulties with Washington and taunted British Prime Minister Tony Blair because "our American friends" do not "pay back favors." Mocking Donald Rumsfeld's designation of France as "Old Europe," he pretended not to remember the secretary of defense's name and referred to him, sarcastically, as "that nice guy of America."
State Department officials thought Chirac would reach out to Washington once Bush was re-elected, and U.S. diplomats here say he has misread French opinion. On the contrary, playing the anti-American card is seen in political circles here as Chirac's strongest position as he prepares to run for a third five-year term in 2007. …
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Shall we tell France howwe feel about Chirac?
Two words: presidential immunity. If Jackie Boy can't win a 3rd term in 2007, he might get indicted and face the fate of one of the more corrupt Italian PMs of the 80s -- living out his remaining days in North African exile. Couldn't happen to a nicer Frog. I hope Sarkozy kicks his butt.
Chirac farts higher than his butt. He is sold hook line and sinker to the Islamofascists. May the bastard burn in hell.
The Frogs deserve what they're gonna' end up with.
| playing the anti-American card is seen in political circles here as Chirac's strongest position as he prepares to run for a third five-year term in 2007.
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The French's new ally. The Muslim World will be indoctrinating them very soon with their demands of Shira Law, replacing French Law. The beheadingd will follow and the TOLORANCE of the French people will be tested.
Germany will be just behind or the roles may be reversed, standby it will be spreading from Holland very soon.
There is a grave possibility that Moslem spires will dot Europe instead of crosses in the next 10 years.
This is an afront to Western Civilization and must be stopped.
Louis XVI was our friend.
These political descendants of the jackals that killed him have pretended friendship on occasion, when the Germans were at or in Paris, but it was all self serving lies.
They have hated and envied us for 215 years.
So9
There are probably more devout Muslims than devout Christians in France these days. Many Churches are barely able to keep afloat.
Besides, how many tank divisions does the Pope have?
Wow, I have said this before, but never with such feeling: WHAT YOU SAID!
This is an [affront] to Western Civilization and must be stopped.
I'd see him opt for Quebec just so he can thumb his nose at the U.S.
This is an afront to Western Civilization and must be stopped.
But if the Europeans don't object, there is nothing we can do about it. IOW, if they want their own cultural suicide, who can stop them?
"There is a grave possibility that Moslem spires will dot Europe instead of crosses in the next 10 years."
The Dutch have one already in St Maarten. A big sucker too.
Hopefully they will come to their senses before that happens. They are a nuclear power. They have nuclear weapons but I dont know what kind of delivery systems they have.
Chirac is a crook who was on Saddam's payroll. His unilateral intervention in former colonies is the height of hypocrisy. And he is behind the forged yellocake documents that caused us so much consternation.
However, he was clearly the superior candidate in the last run-off election as the other candidate was, all kidding aside, a fascist.
The idea of representative government is dying, and quickly, in Old Europe. Though the European elites won't admit to it, this is the whole point of the European Union. Oswald Mosely, Britain's most notable fascist, saw
this quite clearly decades ago, and hence his support for the idea.
I was pleasantly surprised to receive a package last week containing a letter and a 'Badge of Normandy Invasion 2004' given to all vets who were involved in 1944--it was issued in appreciation for the liberation of France at the 60th Anniversary of the landings--it was sent by the Consul de France in Wash. DC so I guess all is not really lost in our relations with some of France---
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Hey, it's mutual. We did the same thing here, calling Kerry "The Poodle" and decorating him with French flags. Those were not meant as compliments.