The Sun storms Paris

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | 02/19/03

[Pokey78]

The Sun storms Paris

Zut alors! ... The Sun's Paris edition
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THE Sun is handing out a special edition of the paper on the streets of Paris today.

In it we ask the French people if they are ashamed of their spineless President, Jacques 'Le Worm' Chirac:

**Translation below**

THE SUN, journal lu quotidiennement par dix millions de personnes, présente ses salutations aux parisiens.

Nous pensons qu’en menaçant constamment de recourir à son droit de veto pour empêcher toute action militaire destinée à faire appliquer la volonté des Nations Unies en Irak, votre président, Jacques Chirac, est devenu la honte de l’Europe.

Nous pensons que cette attitude est d’autant plus hypocrite que tout le monde sait qu’au bout du compte, le président Chirac apportera finalement son soutien à l’ONU, aux États-Unis et à la Grande Bretagne.

Les citoyens du Royaume-Uni estiment que M. Chirac, qui au Royaume-Uni est surnommé le “Ver”, se pavane avec arrogance sur la scène internationale avec pour seul objectif de donner à son pays une importance démesurée par rapport à la réalité.

La vérité c’est que le monde entier, y compris la France, sait qu’il faut régler le problème Saddam Hussein.

Mais seul le Président français semble décidé à faire obstacle à la volonté de la communauté internationale.

Lorsque Saddam Hussein aura disparu, les britanniques et les autres européens se tourneront vers la France et se poseront la question de savoir si ce pays est encore un allié.

Les peuples se demanderont si ce que dit la France par l’intermédiaire de ses dirigeants à encore la moindre valeur.

Nous, britanniques, pensons également que vous, français, avez oublié ce que vous devez aux autres nations, et en particulier aux États-Unis et à la Grande Bretagne, qui sont venues à votre secours lors des deux guerres mondiales.

Vous n’étiez que trop heureux d’accueillir les américains lorsque la France était écrasée sous la botte hitlérienne.

Mais aujourd’hui vous méprisez le peuple américain et son président, et vous oubliez combien de soldats, de marins et de pilotes, américains et britanniques, ont donné leur vie, ainsi qu’en témoignent les cimetières militaires de France, pour la libération de ce pays.

Aujourd’hui, les américains, soutenus en cela par d’autres nations européennes plus courageuses que la France, se préparent à débarrasser le monde d’un autre tyran.

Au nom de nos dix millions de lecteurs, nous vous posons aujourd’hui cette question:

N’avez-vous pas honte de votre President?

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Greetings to the citizens of Paris from The Sun newspaper, which is read by ten million people every day.

We think your President, Jacques Chirac, is a disgrace to Europe by constantly threatening to veto military action to enforce the will of the United Nations against Iraq.

We think it is all the more hypocritical because the world knows that eventually President Chirac will agree to support the UN, America and Great Britain.

British people feel M Chirac, who in the UK is nicknamed the 'worm', is arrogantly strutting about trying to make France seem more important in the world than it really is.

The truth is that all the world - including France - recognises that Saddam Hussein must be dealt with. But only the French President seems determined to frustrate the will of the international community.

When Saddam Hussein has gone, people in Britain and the rest of Europe will look at France and ask themselves whether France is much of an ally any more. People will ask themselves why anyone should bother with what France and its leader say.

We also think in Britain that you in France have forgotten how much you owe to other nations, particularly America and Britain, for coming to your aid in two world wars.

You were glad enough to welcome the Americans when Hitler ruled France.

But now you sneer at the American people and their president, and forget how the war cemeteries of France are packed with American and British soldiers and sailors and airmen who laid down their lives so France could be free.

Today, the Americans - backed by other European nations braver than France - are preparing again to rid the world of a tyrant.

On behalf of our ten million readers, we say to you today:

Are you not ashamed of your president?

[July 4th]

How cool is this?

[xzins]

Wow!

Goes for the throat, doesn't it?

[Brett66]

They're going to get a lot of Frenchmen mad with this ........ and I'm sure they'll surrender when that happens.

[July 4th]

By the way, both The Sun and the NY Post are Rupert Murdoch papers. They've both been going for the throat the past few weeks - my hats off to the man.

[ellery]

Oh, ho, ho. Gotta love the French, though -- they're always there when they need us.

[the_doc]

Stunning article.

[Lady In Blue]

This is SO GOOD!

[Jewels1091]

Straight talk Express rolling through, taking no prisoners!!! WOW.

[B Knotts]

*ping*

[Dont Mention the War]

God, I love Rupert Murdoch. (And Rebekah Wade too, the new editrix of The Sun.)

[Dont Mention the War]

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[2Smart2BLiberal]

arrogantly strutting about trying to make France seem more important in the world than it really is.

Couldn't have said it better myself!

[timestax]

Worm is too good fer him...should be a snail, or a maggot!! eh

[merak]

fyi

[exit82]

This is actually a one sided printed broadsheet. The reverse is blank--so the French can use it in an emergency.

[KaiserofKrunch]

I think we are missing the point here. I suggest that the french( lower case intentional) are born in a state of "original surrender," somewhat akin to "original sin," but a Gallic variant.

The french, therefore, are not waiting to surrender because they already exist in a state of capitulation!

[hmmmmm]

Absolutely priceless! Nobody else would have the ummmmm.. guts.. to say what needed to be said.

[tessalu]

The maggot worm, Chirac!