Why the French defy America

The Daily Telegraph ^ | February 17, 2003 | Patrick Bishop

[JDGreen123]

Wow! Thanks for the list! I will pass it on.

[JDGreen123]

Found some more on FINA:

Finally in 1998, Fina succumbed to a merger proposal (in reality a takeover) by the French company TOTAL, to form TotalFina.

FINA - Brief History

FINA bought the assets of Sinclair W.W. Fowler Oil Company

[Robert_Paulson2]

Citgo

PURE oil...
fact... staying out of Iraq is essential for France's survival.. keeping us out... it IS about oil.

the protestors say this is about oil... right... FRANCE having it, selling it and investing it with their national corporate greed.....

to france and russia... it IS about oil.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

I think I can speak for a lot of people here by saying that I don't care where their anti-Americanism comes from, just that they get rid of it...or face the consequences.

[MinorityRepublican]

Actually, my dear Barnacle, there is quite a Catholic renewal and revival going on among young people -- much to the elite's horror.

Source please?

[Siobhan]

Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR as well as my own experience among the Community of the Beatitudes and the Jerusalem Community in France one summer ago.

[arm958]

In the past, the French have affected not to notice outbreaks of Frog-bashing by tabloid columnists or rent-a-quote politicians. This time, the jibes are stinging.

We have not yet begun to taunt.

[John Lenin]

The French are racists, they don't like cowboys from Texas.

[Atchafalaya]

Yeah, easy to see why they are a third world country.

[Atchafalaya]

It ain't we, we never entered into it. This president is not going to waste time much less air discussing if the French are upset that they are not being personally catered to. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way; the French still ain't figured out Bubba is not running the show!

[Pyro7480]

I don't know if you were referring to just French young people, but there's also a renewal and revival going on right here in the good ol' U.S.A. amongst Catholic young people. I'm not sure if you've heard of Colleen Carroll's recent book "The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy," but it details this trend in detail. There were two articles that mentioned the book in a recent issue of my diocese's weekly newspaper that basically wrote off the book (the authors basically proved Carroll's point that Baby Boomer Catholics are scared of this movement), but I wrote a letter to the editor in defense of the book. You should check this book out. :-)

[Lurker]

Dear France,

F*** you.

Love,

America

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...We will never see eye to eye nor will we ever please France until the anti-Christian groups finish what they started in de-Christianizing America..."

One thing we know---France has played absolutely NO role in the de-Christianization of America. The alledged influence of French intellectuals in our Institutions of Higher learning is more a comment upon US than upon the worth of French intellectuals. Foucault is a joke in France. He's required reading in America.

France, France,France, France, France, France. That's all I've heard for the past three days.

If France is such a small, weak, meaningless turd on the highway of history then why is everybody so upset about their lack of support? Who cares about the support of a small, weak, meaningless turd, anyway?

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

A very moving picture Lurker.

Are those the graves of Frenchmen who covered the backs of the English as they retreated across the Channel?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes, that was my feeble effort to dismiss them as 'absolute idiots, completely jealous at us, and therefore, let us not purchase their products.' My French was not good, but passable.

[MadIvan]

When I warned them [France] that Britain would fight on alone, their Chief [General Weygand] told their Prime Minister that in three weeks, England would have her neck wrung like a chicken - Some chicken! Some neck! - Winston Churchill, December 30, 1941

The French were covering no one's back, madamoiselle. Crawl back under the rock from whence you came.

Ivan

[NOLBRLS]

More French Companies:
BANQ ONE and KY Jelly in both cases someone gets screwed.

[JDGreen123]

Here is an interesting little photo from 1976:

Jacques Chirac & Saddam Hussein in 1976.

I will need some help from any German speakers out there who could interpret the article that features this photo: Alte Intimitäten zwischen Paris und Bagdad

Reminds me of this photo of Vichy French leader Marshall Petain greeting Adolph Hitler:

The Simon Weisenthal Center has a large online gallery of how the French Nazis treated Jews in World War II. I believe there is a latent anti-semitism in the French thinking that is playing a part in the current situation.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center

[Robert_Paulson2]

Perhaps it was meant.. the French who "were firing" at the backs of the Englishmen whom they betrayed... after pretending to be allies.

There is no defense or excuse for the amoeba's of our human species, the spineless french.

The France-bashing, is only beginning. Just wait till we uncover their "espionage" against the free world in concert with their communist brethren the world around. Their betrayal of NATO and the allies of the atlantic alliance, using military espionage and supporting terrorism, to support their attempt to rule the EU... will pretty much put them on the list of terrorist supporting states... Of course, they will revolt and overthrow their unstable democracy as they have about 6-12 times in the 240 year history of our republic. These are the folks that lecture our democratic republic as if they were "more knowlegable" about it. rofl. It is even more humorous when they lecture the land of the Magan Carta, about the proper role of government and such... They don't understand anything but bolshevic socialism, masquerading as "democracy," they are after all the "socialist elites." They THINK they know it all when in fact they know nothing.

the french are amateurs at democracy and self governance but pretty good at the "au contrer" table. "We disagree" should be their national motto, or "we betray..." perhaps.

I pray that there WILL be a regime change in France, before it's too late for them all. But it appears they are now overrun with islamic extremists, jew haters and communists... too bad. Not surprising however. Nations who will stand for anything, will fall for everything... and they have.