Posted on 08/20/2006 11:03:03 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Leading French presidential hopeful sneers at Bush's 'axis of evil'
7 minutes ago
France's leading candidate for the presidency, Segolene Royal, described US President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" as simplistic and the invasion of Iraq as a mistake.
"Preventive wars aggravate the problems they presume to tackle. Only George Bush could think that the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq," she told more than 2,000 members of her Socialist Party in this eastern town.
"In this world, neither simplism -- such as the theory of an 'axis of evil' -- nor fear are good advisors," she said.
Her speech marked an intensification of her efforts to get the party nomination in November to run in the presidential elections due in April next year.
Polls show her to be the French politician most likely to succeed President Jacques Chirac. Her nearest rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, trails her 42 to 55 percent, according to the latest survey by the IFOP institute.
Royal, the daughter of a retired army colonel, said the recent conflict in Lebanon confirmed the limits of what force can achieve.
"In this world, France doesn't have the right to play a minor role, foremost because it is a member of the Security Council, and because its geography and history put it into contact with Africa, Asia and the Middle East -- from where certain threats come -- but also because of solid friendships," she said.
"We are not resigned to a certain impotence of Europe, which, far from bolstering France, weakens it. Let's shoulder our share of the responsibility."
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She pharts in our general direction?
"We are not resigned to a certain impotence of Europe, which, far from bolstering France, weakens it. Let's shoulder our share of the responsibility."
I agree. So we'll be seeing a few thousand French troops in Lebanon by week's end, correct?
While she was going over the deadly "F"'s she forgot "FACTS".
Like 911 and the nation states ,including France, who are underwriting world terror.
She also forgot "Former Allies" like her avaricious homeland who are already paying the price by being overrun by hostile Muslim immigrants who hate their hosts and who while paying that price will have hell to pay from us for their "Faithlessness".
"In this world, France doesn't have the right to play a minor role"......
dead right, Fwance should have NO role. (miserable backstabbers)
But endless prattle at the U.N. are??
The French surrendered to Islamic extremists a long time ago. Their only "contribution" in the Middle East at present is their arrogance, scorn and condescension toward those with the courage to stand up to the Islamo-fascist culture that has practically already conquered France by merely moving in, having a LOT of babies, and burning a few hundred automobiles around Paris. The car-burning was NOT really - at a deeper level - about a stupid law regarding job security - it was about the larger clash of cultures, with the Islamo-fascist leaders having as a primary goal the expandsion of their empires and the securing of their power and privilege in the 7th Century world of the Mullah's. They wrap their aims in packaging of a false and distored "religion" that is used to intimidate and deceive the naieve and the uneducated.
In the bigger scheme of things, the Frogs just haven't figured out yet (or won't even admit to themselves) that they really do need someone else to once again liberate them from their conquerors (this time their immigrants). It is so much easier for them to be deluded into thinking that appeasement will save their sorry hides on the home front. Meanwhile, they decry the use of American words and culture!
Note the clever political ploy of blaming the enemies of the Islamo-fascists for their own problems in France. This is a politically "safe" way to appease muslims through pandering.
What many fail to recognize is that the Muslim invasion of Europe is happening quietly but dramatically through the combination of the high immigration rate and the high birth rates among immigrants. The very low birth rates for native-born Europeans mean that it is only a matter of decades before Europe will be fully co-opted by muslims, rather than only partially as present.
Great picture!
We still support the boycott of ALL French products.
Me too, the French should have been included. Nuf said... LOL
This is news? The French thought the Nazis were a bunch of swell guys.
The French are like the three monkeys, hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Just stick you head in the sand.
Best way to get votes in France? Criticize Bush and the U.S. Why did we even bother with Normandy?
This is the country that makes a big push for Israel to leave Lebanon under the care of a 15,000 soldier UN force...and then says it can't manage to send more than 200 of their pathetic military to help. Why in the world should anyone...including our President and Sec. of State...listen to anything these poseurs have to say? They are on the cusp of surrendering to their Muslims, and their candidates are running against George Bush. No one will miss France.
Being French, he subscribes to the 'See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Fight No Evil' school of thought. When threatened this can be adapted to include 'Surrender to Evil' and 'Give Aid and Comfort to Evil.'
I used to think that the government of France would be overthrown and replaced by a caliphate, and that the people who did it would be Muslim immigrants. Looks like I was wrong: France's political leadership is going to do it for them. Vichy all over again.
How very Fronch.
The French have allowed Hezbollha to acquire large quantities of Russian and Iranian built weapons and also allowed Hezbollha to build a sophisticated bunker network. That action was typical of the the French who have been screwing up the world through their own naive stupidity for decades. How was allowing a Terrorist organization to acquire and utilize anti-ship cruise missiles, making the world safer ?
The bottom line is the world and the region is much safer with Saddam gone and US troops within Iraq. Anyone who does not see that is lying or is incredibly naive. The main problem in the region right now is the Iranian Mullahs who were brought to power in the first with the help of France. Perhaps the French, just like the terrorist and leftist political slugs of the world, continue to refuse to admit that they are the ones preventing world peace.
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