[Pharmboy]

...and in a related story, a major earthquake was felt in France today as more than 53,000 American dead who gave their lives to free France in two world wars and are buried in that country turned over in their graves.

[wcbtinman]

"And then there is a strategic mistake: that today one country can lead the world."Raffarin

One country does lead the world. Look around moron.

And I for one, am proud that it is the US, and I hope it stays that way.

Would anyone like to be lead by a bunch of surrender monkeys?

[Free Vulcan]

Translation: Oh, sh**, they're going to find some of our stuff there, I know it, I know it, I just know it! Then we'll be exposed for the greedy, exploitative letches we are!

[XEHRpa]

U.S. Made Triple Mistake Starting Iraq War

Does that mean "double secret probation" for us?

[ALS]

Maybe he meant Triple Fudge...

[laz17]

It's a serious political error to start trouble in this region.

It's a serious political error to piss off the United States, which you frogs have accomplished masterfully. And it's also a serious political error to be on the wrong side of history, which the cesspool known as France shall forever be.

[Billthedrill]

Three mistakes? Yeah - (1) trusting France, (2) trusting Germany, (3) trusting Turkey.

[nkycincinnatikid]

one mistake, happenstance.. two mistakes, coincidence.. three mistakes, Watchout !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Enemy Of The State]

"The Americans made a triple mistake: first of all a moral mistake, and I think we have to say this: there was an alternative to war. We could have disarmed Iraq differently."

Sorry, Americans just arent as Romantic and we couldn't wait any longer for Chirac to get Saddams nut off.

[prairiebreeze]

Phuck Phrance

Prairie

[meatloaf]

"risking further damage to already strained ties with Washington."? What am I missing here? Seems to me we should work on straining that more. Screw patching things up.

I'm hoping to hell the boycott of everything French is hurting. Besides that I'm more than peeved to pick up something in a store and see one whole side of the box printed in French. Screw that too!

[P-Marlowe]

Hey France, you want some Cheese with that whine?

[WOSG]

Non, Mr PM a triple success:

1. Morally the right thing to do, removing an evil regime.

2. Good to challenge the UN's relevence. they failed the test, they are a hollow institution.

3. This will not inflame the region. We are killing the sources of inflammation right now. Terror will decline.

[longtermmemmory]

"""And then, there is a strategic mistake: that today one country can lead the world," he said, arguing that Europe should be one of the major poles of influence in the world. ""

Translation: France is upset the ballance of power has shifted seismicly against them. They are pushing to see a way to get their fantasized power back. Their UN veto has been shown to be impotent. This is just jockeying for position in the post-saddam world.

They are soooooo arogant for saying they know that part of the world better than the USA. Given the constant bloodshed in that region since the roman period, I say no one has any claim to the cosmic knowledge trophy.

By their book we are about to make a fourth we are going to cut france out of the ecconomic picture of rebuilding (AND I hope decrease the value of the Euro as a world currency)

[John Lenin]

"Just because we're against this war doesn't mean we want dictatorship to defeat democracy," he said then. "We are in the democratic camp.

Uh huh, the Europeons have already lost the right of free speech.

Under French law it is a criminal offence to insult the president, carrying a fine of up to 45,000 euros (£30,000).

The French version of democracy, I'll pass.

[Brian Allen]

<< "And then, there is a strategic mistake: that today one country can lead the world," he said, arguing that Europe should be one of the major poles of influence in the world. >>

Several hundred years ago, it used to be.

It blew it's chance.

Particularly France.

And the fact one country now leads the world is not any kind of "mistake," strategic or otherwise -- but is the consequequence of being the only Nation in the History of the Human Species that is Founded in and Stands upon the Principle of Individual Liberty!

[PatrioticAmerican]

"We could have disarmed Iraq differently."

What the Hell fun would THAT have been?? jeez, frogs. go surrender to something.

[Rocky]

The U.S. made a triple mistake:

1. We thought the French would be on our side

2. We thought the Germans would be on our side

3. We thought the U.N. would stand behind their resolution

As the Who once sang, "We won't get fooled again!"

[Eagle737]

France, Germany, Belgium......all a bunch of pathetic socialist losers with an inferiority complex to the United States. France. Here's a country that would surrender if they were threatened with invasion by the Jamaican army. Ya right, lets let the French tell us how we should defend ourselves. Ever do a word search on the internet for 'French Military Victories'? You'll get back the response: 'Sorry. No Results Found. Are you sure you didn't mean 'French Military Defeats?'

[Kudsman]

vague threats of a U.S. consumer boycott of French goods,

Oh yeah real vague Mr. Raffarin. I know I have purchased local NY wine. I also put back a nice US flag pattern handkerchief Wegmans had on sale, that was tagged "Made in USA of imported fabric from FRANCE".

Paris has launched a determined campaign to avoid portrayal as a Saddam sympathizer.

I believe your comrade friends call this propaganda. I call it MERDE!

[Khepera]

They continue to be cowards.