[txradioguy]

Boo hoo hoo Mr. Chirac. Cry me a blue freakin river!

[Wphile]

"It is not really responsible behavior," he told a news conference. "It is not well brought up behavior. They missed a good opportunity to keep quiet."

Screw you Chirac!!

[Siobhan]

Call your local French consulate (or embassy) and kindly ask them to leave.

[litany_of_lies]

This is further proof that the ultimate goal of the EU boys in Brussels is to create a cradle-to-grave, tree-hugging, despot-appeasing, baby-killing, euthanizing, business-choking, Christian-hating, politically correct socialist nightmare.

Perhaps Blair and Britain will reconsider what they are getting into. Perhaps the Eastern Europeans will tell the EU to pound salt. 10 years of relative market freedom and they will be more prosperous than the EU anyway.

As Drudge says, EU-PU!

[cynicom]

Not too many years ago, when it looked as if these same countries and Russia were looking to vacation on the English channel, the big bad French said not one unkind word. Now these countries are "friends" and the cowardly French open their swine mouth. What losers.

[veronica]

Heave la France!

[Porterville]

That is funny stuff.

[Savage Beast]

"It is not really responsible behavior"

And your behavior is responsible, Jacques?

"It is not well brought up behavior."

I doubt that you've been brought up any better than the rest of us, Jacques, but it's beside the point.

"They missed a good opportunity to keep quiet."

Uh... Run that past me one more time.

"the parliaments of the 15 EU nations still have to ratify last December's decision for 10 new members to join the bloc"

Maybe this is a good thing. We might want to consider incorporating our more responsible and well brought up allies into some sort of NAFTA agreement anyway. Maybe they won't want to join the EU.

Whaddaya think, responsible, well brought up allies?!??

[Savage Beast]

I hate to say it, but the Notre Dame is probably going to wind up in Arizona and the Louvre somewhere like Myrtle Beach.

[NautiNurse]

warning it could jeopardize their chances of joining the European Union

LOL! This was worth an audible evening chuckle!

[Democratshavenobrains]

"It is not really responsible behavior," he told a news conference. "It is not well brought up behavior. They missed a good opportunity to keep quiet."

Ah yes. Longing for the good old days of the 1930's. It must upset France that the countries they cared nothing for during Hitler's conquest of them, are on our side.

[Kay Soze]

Jack off Chirac

France has not won one since Napoleon and you Rwandan murdering faggots are no longer the center of the universe or the EU.

[Porterville]

"Keep Quiet" that is so plebian. The French are sooo unsophisticated, my God what a Cowboy (except he is a queer, I call him a cowgirl, except that insults women, I guess I'll just call him a snooty little toad/ I don't want to insult frogs). Now what is worse??? Don Rumsfeld saying "Old Europe", or Chirac saying "a good chance to keep quiet"???

[dogbyte12]

It is not just a boycott of French and German products... we really need to support our Eastern European friends. They have honorably come to our side after having the crap kicked out of them for half a century. They are fledgling democracies, capitalist economies,... let's give them some good old fashioned greenbacks for their efforts by buying their products.

I was at a store today, and saw some really good looking Peach Sauce. I turned the label around, saw it was made in France, and put it back. Screw the surrender monkey's and the horse they rode in on (before eating it)

[Redcloak]

"Concerning the candidate countries, honestly I felt they acted frivolously because entry into the European Union implies a minimum of understanding for the others," Chirac told reporters after an emergency EU summit on Iraq.

He warned the candidates the position could be "dangerous" because the parliaments of the 15 EU nations still have to ratify last December's decision for 10 new members to join the bloc on May 1, 2004.

Chirac particularly warned Romania and Bulgaria, who are still negotiating to enter the bloc in 2007.

"Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible to (sign the letter) when their position is really delicate," Chirac said. "If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way."

Since this is so upsetting to the French, perhaps we should offer to let them join NAFTA rather than spoiling the EU with their "not well brought up behavior".

[Ciexyz]

Blackmail!

[Polybius]

"It is not well brought up behavior. They missed a good opportunity to keep quiet."

And France has the nerve to speak about "American arrogance" while it's head of state speaks to sovereign nations as if they were 7 year old children.

Let's allow Britain and our Eastern European allies to join NAFTA and allow France to reap the consequences.

[MississippiMan]

What a pompous arse! Good grief, I think this goes beyond anything I've seen from this moron yet when it comes to sheer arrogance. Has he not noticed that it's HIS position that's the minority position? How dare someone SPEAK? Missed an "opportunity to keep quiet?" This is unbelievable language to have come from a head of state!

MM

[kabar]

France is a nation in decline and Chirac knows it. For example, France is now spending 12 percent of its GDP on public pensions compared to a little over 4 percent in the US. Only 16 percent of French citizens 60-65 are still working compared to 38 percent in the UK. This year 550,000 workers will retire on pension. In three years the number will be 800,000. The demographic time bomb (declining birth rate coupled with an aging population) will result by 2040 in one worker for every pensioner compared to two for each pensioner now. The French politicians must make some hard decisions now, ie. before this Summer. Some options discussed include entending the working life by six years, raising contributions by one-half or reducing benefits by one third. Or encourage workers to save for their own retirement.

What does this all mean? France will be forced to reduce its expenditures for all other items, including defence, as public pensions consume more and more of their budget. It is something we should not replicate with Social Security and Medicare. France will become less and less of a world power, economically and militarily. Moreover, culturally with one out of every 10 Frenchmen a Moslem and the percentage will continue to increase due to the higher birth rate of Muslims and immigration. The very character of the nation is changing, which may make it almost unrecognizable in 30 to 40 years.

[okie01]

[said Chirac], "Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible to (sign the letter) when their position is really delicate," Chirac said. "If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way."

Hey, Jacque, ol' buddy, ol' pal. It's "speak softly and carry a big stick". Not the other way around...

So, that's the big benefit of joining the EU. You get to turn your foreign policy over to the French!

[VRWC_minion]

He is not acting like a man in power. Plus they accuse the US of throwing its weight around.