The French Spin a Different War Story

Insight ^ | 4/29/03 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

[Mears]

Garbage!

Looks like "The Spy Who Came Out of the Cold" has a bad case of frostbite.

[chachacha]

Fully 25 percent of Frenchmen polled said they hoped Saddam would win the war.

If I were a French citizen I would hoipe and pray they don't come under attack by one of their corrupt allies.

The American soldier would not be of much help. I wouldn't blame them.

[JohnnyZ]

His books are knock-offs of Graham Greene novels anyway.

[Mears]

Oops!!! "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold"

[timestax]

France sucks, and that ole iron radio tower looks lke sh*t, and should be torn down!

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Of course, according to the French, any Iraqi not waving a white flag of surrender is considered providing "fierce resistance"

[prairiebreeze]

Since Chirac has now called for the sanctions to be ended, I suppose the French media will spin that into Chirac being the only compassionate entity on the world political stage and someone who must step in to help the Iraqis since the war that America brought. Or some such utter nonsense.

I recently read a couple of articles here that painted a very sorry picture of the level of crime and corruption in French law enforcement and judiciary. Also increasing Muslim crime against women.

Prairie

[headsonpikes]

"More than ever, the U.S. rejects Jacques Chirac's project..."

Excellent! That's the best policy--Reject French 'Projets'.

They're all rascally plots!

[Doomonyou]

Le Douche bags.

[vpintheak]

This is precisily why when you read, you have to look into the motives of whoever is presenting any story. Clearly here is a motive to protect the image of the French Government, the pinko commies that they are!

[laotzu]

The French should declare war on US.

[fightinJAG]

The problem is what to do about this: an entire nation in the heart of Europe of deluded and delusion people, spurred on to invest themselves in an alternate anti-American reality, is very dangerous.

How can such brainwashing be undone?

[F.J. Mitchell]

With friends like France, you had best not drop the soap.

[kevkrom]

an entire nation in the heart of Europe of deluded and delusion people, spurred on to invest themselves in an alternate anti-American reality, is very dangerous

Especially when creating a resentment via propganda tragetting a specific group to hate in a method that is all too remincient of what their German neighbors accomplished 60-70 years ago...

[valkyrieanne]

In less than 20 years we'll be talking about the Republic of Frankistan.

[nhbob1]

"The news had been bad from the start. U.S. and British troops were "bogged down" in southern Iraq in the face of "fierce resistance" from Iraqi forces loyal to Saddam Hussein. U.S. supply lines had been cut, and an ambush by cunning Iraqi defenders had killed dozens of U.S. troops. American prisoners of war, shown on French television in footage that was withheld in the United States, seemed pitiably small, helpless and afraid. U.S. helicopters were crashing like mosquitoes hitting a bug zapper, and a U.S. Patriot missile had shot down a British warplane in a friendly-fire incident that risked alienating public opinion in Great Britain, America's only ally in this go-it-alone war."

This stuff was on French TV? For a minute I thought this was from CNN!

[expatpat]

They don't look good, in fact. Some of the French look good, of course, but most of the French you see over there are runty, chain-smoking creeps.