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Six Nights Of Riots In Paris Ghetto Split Chirac Cabinet
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 11-3-2005 | Henry Samuel

Posted on 11/02/2005 5:31:01 PM PST by blam

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To: Rosemont
And you may be correct.

I don't personally think courage is a racial thing. The French have had more than their share of humiliating failures...going all the way back to Poitiers and Agincourt. But under the right leadership and for the right cause...well, I guess we're about to see.

41 posted on 11/02/2005 6:13:49 PM PST by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: blam

The French Homeland Security is currently at Yellow.

42 posted on 11/02/2005 6:14:29 PM PST by NeoCaveman (Confirm Judge Alito now. Yes I am an Alitist)
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To: wvobiwan

While they were rioting around the Convention center in Los Angeles, a few years ago, cause the lakers won, shoving burning trees inside of cars, etc, the reporter announced they were celebrating the victory.

Here let's celebrate, shove a burning tree inside this car...

Heck of celebration. Once third world, always third world.

Kind of a shame on multiculturalism.


43 posted on 11/02/2005 6:15:04 PM PST by television is just wrong
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To: blam
Another one


44 posted on 11/02/2005 6:15:48 PM PST by NeoCaveman (Confirm Judge Alito now. Yes I am an Alitist)
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To: blam

Rumor our troops will deploy to quell unrest:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1514489/posts?page=1


45 posted on 11/02/2005 6:16:51 PM PST by No Longer Free State (No event has just one cause, no person has just one motive, no action has just the intended effect.)
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To: blam
flawed integration policies

The French are just so dumb. Pay every immigrant a million dollars each until the country runs out of money.

Then when the next wave of immigrants arrive they can start rioting.

Now there is a sound integration policy. :-)
46 posted on 11/02/2005 6:18:38 PM PST by cgbg (Boxer and Feinstein confuse the constitution with Mao's Little Red Book.)
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To: wvobiwan
Well, I am going to have to adjust my thinking--I thought that poverty, racial segregation and government hardliners mistreating people only occurred in the USA.
47 posted on 11/02/2005 6:18:54 PM PST by Aussiebabe
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To: dubyaismypresident; cyborg; fortunecookie

See #42. LOL


48 posted on 11/02/2005 6:19:41 PM PST by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: blam

The French have deveoloped a new battle tank. It has one forward speed and five gears in reverse.There is also a special button that when pushed the tank barrel falls off and a white flag goes up.HA!


49 posted on 11/02/2005 6:20:42 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Rosemont

Maybe this will turn into Another Viet Nam for France, substituting Paris for Dien Bien Phu.


50 posted on 11/02/2005 6:20:58 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: blam

France is really a third-world country, which has been in decline for more than a century and a half. It has been corrupt and in decline for so long that , unlike typical third-world countries, there is little decency or civic virtue in its people.It is being passed by third-world countries moving in the other direction of growth and improvement, including newly free countries in Eastern Europe such as Poland, and large emerging nations such as India.


51 posted on 11/02/2005 6:21:10 PM PST by Cplus (France really third-world.)
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To: dubyaismypresident
Right you are...he knows how to deal with Islam!
52 posted on 11/02/2005 6:21:39 PM PST by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: Petronski

How many Fenchmen does it take to defend Paris? The world may never know, it's never been done before.


53 posted on 11/02/2005 6:24:07 PM PST by jedgarlives
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To: DogBarkTree

"6 nights and the French have yet to surrender? I guess a cow will now jump over the moon"

Hell has, indeed, frozen over. Hell, has indeed, frozen over. Hell indeed has frozen over.

Well, one is almost correct?


54 posted on 11/02/2005 6:28:28 PM PST by lawdude (Err Amerika induces "in-talk-sication".)
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To: Cplus
Third world countries don't produce the art and literature and music and architecture that France produces. Many Englishmen have French blood and many Americans have English and French blood.

I don't disagree that they have drifted away from the swifter currents of life. But maybe this is their chance to regain their confidence.

There are forces at work in France (like Sarkozy) who are strong and courageous.

Perhaps we can say bon voyage to Chirac and Villepin.

55 posted on 11/02/2005 6:28:29 PM PST by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: blam

56 posted on 11/02/2005 6:30:49 PM PST by doug from upland (David Kendall -- protecting the Clintons one lie at a time)
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To: john drake
In the end, nothing they stand for could possibly be of interest to the West

OIL
57 posted on 11/02/2005 6:33:38 PM PST by uncbob
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To: john drake

I agree.

Trying to steel the resolve of my spawn.


58 posted on 11/02/2005 6:35:39 PM PST by wardaddy (I am sick of stealth queerness in nearly every movie I rent .)
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To: asp1

That is clearly what is needed here.;)


59 posted on 11/02/2005 6:35:57 PM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: exit82
The split in Chirac's cabinet is that half want to surrender before eating their cheese and half after.

You got my day started off with a grin.

Thanks!

60 posted on 11/02/2005 6:39:07 PM PST by Northern Alliance
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