French Defense Minister calls for the EU to raise military outlays to achieve parity with US

IHT | June 10, 2005 | Katrin Bennhold

[Bouchart]

Near bankrupt, socialist EU countries to spend more on defense? Doubt it.

[VRWCTexan]

Do you have a "link" to the source article???

[Poser]

We drove the commies bankrupt. We can do the same to the French. It couldn't happen to nicer people.

[Brilliant]

I'm all in favor of this. Now we can reduce our own military commitment to Europe.

Just leave a skeleton crew in Germany to block the assension of the next Fuhrer.

[bill1952]

raise military outlays to achieve parity with US

LOL! They had best first raise spending to achieve parity with our boy scouts!

LOL!!

[Cornpone]

Sheesh...the French still don't get it?

[rlmorel]

40% of the men long to have babies. Women are trying to get them to be more warlike. Man oh man.

As I once heard it said, It is a strange place, where they fight with their feet and f*ck with their face...

[nwrep]

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/06/09/news/defense.php

[Prophet in the wilderness]

This ought to interesting to see what he liberals/democrat/DU reaction will be that their beloved EU is talking about increasing their military budget.

[Brilliant]

When Michèle Alliot-Marie was named France's defense minister three years ago, she was so surprised and unprepared that she had to ask her partner to teach her to march. He taught her in their living room.

Ho, ho... I guess she already knew how to run.

[nwrep]

LOL. If the Frenchmen are turning into flaming faggots, I wonder who it is that this woman could draft to fight for France?

[LibFreeOrDie]

"If we want Europe to carry its values of humanity and democracy into the world, we need to not just talk but also act - armed if necessary," she said.

If Dubya ever said anything like that about the U.S., he'd be called a cowboy! :^)

[ChildOfThe60s]

We don't have to.

The EU welfare states are already teetering because of unfunded social programs. They flat out don't have the money, even if they had the will, to beef up the military. Which they do not.

Further, of what value is military capability of any size when under the control of, well, panzies. For lack of a better word.

[VRWCTexan]

Great - thanks very much!!

[CasearianDaoist]

We are currently at the same technological level as the United States - if we want to stay there, we have to do a lot more," Alliot-Marie said. "That is the price for being not just an economic power, but a political power."

Hahahahah! Unbelievable!

[rlmorel]

It was posted at FR earlier the results of a poll saying 40% of French men longed to be able to birth a baby. Just too much for me...thanks to Flashbunny for this...

[FreeRep]

Q: How many EU-French troops does it take to defend Paris?
A: No one knows, it's never been done before!

[FreeRep]

Q: What's the EU-French word for conflict resolution?
A: Surrender

[Tacis]

I don't think she means parity as a percentage of GDP. I believe she wants to spend about 400 billion a year on Eurinal defense. The bribes, kickbacks, payoffs, skims and scams available on a 400 billion base certainly would get Chirac's approval and that of the other Eurinal bureaucrat thieves.