Posted on 01/21/2006 6:35:50 PM PST by voletti
Yup - clear signal that if Paris is nuked for the US to please lob a few for the Frogs. So much for his confidence in being able to contact any of their nuke subs. Do they have any? Ones with missiles?
Do you really need a missle to launch a bedsheet?
People seem to be in the mood for reading signals into everything every pretender utters these days.
If its not Osama is Chirac.
Didja ever notice how impotence screams out loud and strength is quiet and reserved?
Probably has realized that the US may not care if France is hit by WMD, or afraid that terrorists might think the same.
Yeah they have had nukes for a few decades. The reaction in the US wasnt bad. We want them to nuke people that commit WMD terrorist attacks on their homeland.
The cowardly French looking for cover under Superman's cape.
Chirac managed to sleep through two weeks of riots right under his nose.
Only a gradate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure could read so much meaning into this meaningless excuse of a threat.
Tentatively I felt pleased by Chirac's announcement. The stance of free nations must be firm against rogue states who might arm terrorists. For many years the stance has seemed to have gone missing in France and elsewhere.
Trademark of Leftists and Islamists (the screamers).
They lost their national testicles at Dien Bien Phu, if not the Battle of France, and never recovered.
I could see them losing their national will after WW I, when they lost such a large part of their male population in such a senseless fashion, but...no excuses since then.
Yes the French have boomers. Chirac was at a boomer base
when he made the comments.
However they are not currently producing Pu nor have the means to produce it.
http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/europe/france.htm#4
Only France and Britain have nuclear weapons???? What about Israel?
Re-analyize.
Chirac's intended audience was the Iranians. To turn this into an anti-American warning is insane.
Its not an anti-american signal (it wouldn't be taken any more seriously than if timbucktoo's dictator waved his arms shouting "death to America!").
Its intended to show a variety of folks that France has nukes and that despite underfunding (nay, starving)their military capabilities for 60 yrs now, Europe still has some muscle that counts etc.
Googling for 'French Nuclear Submarines' leaves much to be desired. However, Global Security has a Jan 20th articles that says "This includes an underwater component equipped with 4 submarines launchers of machines (SNLE) embarking M45 missiles..."
I read Chirac's comments as getting France in position to say the US or Israel jumped the gun when/if they bombed Iran.
The First Frog can then proclaim, "Nous allions avoir un plus en rond de diplomatie avant que nos missiles aient dû faire le travail!"
And I say, "Merde de taureau!"
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