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France left out of Iraq stability force
The Daily Telegraph ^
| April 17, 2003
| Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Posted on 04/16/2003 5:00:15 PM PDT by MadIvan
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To: Dog
Did she really? That's great.
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posted on
04/16/2003 5:43:43 PM PDT
by
agrace
To: MadIvan
With all due respect to PM Blair, "taking to the streets" in order to throw petrol bombs, is not acceptable in any democracy. It's criminal.
Prairie
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posted on
04/16/2003 5:48:41 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(Freedom isn't free.........unless you live in France.)
To: Dog
I like Condi's statement except for forgiving Russia. Not sure that's wise. Certainly we shouldn't forget.
Prairie
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posted on
04/16/2003 5:49:32 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(Freedom isn't free.........unless you live in France.)
To: MadIvan
"France left out of Iraq stability force"
That's because we can only accept so many surrenders during one war.
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posted on
04/16/2003 5:52:48 PM PDT
by
Beck_isright
("QUAGMIRE" - French word for "unable to find anyone to surrender to")
To: MadIvan
She [Chirac's flunkey]
said: "Issue by issue, we have to find the right balance between the role of the UN, which must be the essential role, and the American and British forces on the ground."There they go again, trying to impose terms. The French never learn. They should be crawling on their bellies to us instead of stamping their foot and making demands. With every passing day, my disgust for them deepens.
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To: No Truce With Kings
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion". Instant classic that will be quoted a thousand years from now.
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posted on
04/16/2003 6:31:47 PM PDT
by
katana
Comment #28 Removed by Moderator
To: MadIvan
The new French national anthem played when they visit a country to make up
Froggy went a-courting and he did ride,
Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm
Froggy went a-courting and he did ride
Uh-hmm, Uh-hmm....
To: MadIvan
Guess George forgot to bring up the stabilization force in that "positive" 20-minute phone call, eh, Chirac. Oops.
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posted on
04/16/2003 7:06:41 PM PDT
by
fightinJAG
(A liberal mind already is terribly wasted.)
To: savedbygrace
Dontcha love how the French always manage to end up on the wrong side of history?
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posted on
04/16/2003 7:11:18 PM PDT
by
Guillermo
(Sic 'em!)
To: MadIvan
The French were left out? But... but... but... who'll cook??
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posted on
04/16/2003 7:12:52 PM PDT
by
Anamensis
(New axis of evil: Syria, Ithaca, Hollywood)
To: prairiebreeze
I like Condi's statement except for forgiving Russia. Not sure that's wise. Certainly we shouldn't forget. "Forgive, forget"... two words not really in my vocabulary. "Grudge. Revenge!" Now those words I like!
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posted on
04/16/2003 7:16:25 PM PDT
by
Anamensis
(New axis of evil: Syria, Ithaca, Hollywood)
To: MEG33
Our great friend,Russia.Hmmm
We would not have won as quickly as we did in Afghanistan without Russian logistical support. And this from a nation where the man in the street still hates us for what we did to the Serbs.
Russia expressed its position but did not bend heaven and earth to organize the world against us. France did. France saw an opportunity to cut America down to size and tore after it like dog in heat, not weighing results and costs. Putin was not as egotistical as Chirac, nor a flower child like Schroeder.
The European man in the street, whatever the preening of its leaders and intelligentsia, will only confront the US in an August-off, 35 hour workweek kind of way. He flatly refuses to assume the burdens and responsibilities that would come with really, really taking us on.
By the way, aren't there 3,000 French paratroopers right now in the Ivory Coast whom we courteously flew there ? Have the French thought of who is going to fly them back ?
To: MadIvan
"Guess George forgot to bring up the stabilization force in that "positive" 20-minute phone call, eh, Chirac. Oops."
Now that is a slap in the face even a cheese eating surrender monkey can understand. A telling point.
Another telling point is the way that France continues to prattle on about involving the UN when the Coalition prattles on about involving Iraqis. A world of difference, as we won't be celebrating the 50 year anniversary of an Iraqi refugee camp (as the UN recently did in the West Bank).
To: expatpat
I smell the x-42.
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posted on
04/16/2003 8:43:52 PM PDT
by
justrepublican
(The purpous of peace and justice activism is to show that the power structure can never listen)
To: MadIvan
I want to continue to see chiraq twist in the wind...and I want to continue to fart in their general direction
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posted on
04/16/2003 10:08:56 PM PDT
by
madison46
(Bandwagon was full when it left the gate - I hope it remains too full for frogs & co.)
To: My2Cents
Excellent! When did Dennis Miller become a normal persona?
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posted on
04/16/2003 11:26:35 PM PDT
by
MeekMom
((HUGE Ann Coulter Fan!!!) (Missing the Gipper Terribly!))
To: MadIvan
France's punishment has only begun.
As the two men met, thousands of Greek leftists clashed with riot police in nearby Syntagma Square, leaving the air filled with the tear gas so familiar to EU summits. Up to 100 people also took over the British Airways office to protest at Mr Blair's presence in the city. Others hurled petrol bombs at the British, Spanish and Italian embassies. Asked what he felt about provoking demonstrations said to be the worst in Greece for 30 years, Mr Blair said: "It is an important democratic right that people have in Europe that they can take to the streets.
Nuts. Rioting isn't a meaningful democratic right. The EU doesn't listen to its population as it is not democratic or directly responsible to the subject populations. But I guess leaving them the ability to riot quietly in the background gives the appearance of significant rights. Useful propaganda at any rate.
I can't quite believe Blair is trying for EU president. He must know that they'd never let him have it.
To: TexanToTheCore
...we won't be celebrating the 50 year anniversary of an Iraqi refugee camp (as the UN recently did in the West Bank).
Really? Are you serious? They celebrated it?
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