No merci in US for thankless French

Daily Mirror (U.K.) ^ | 04/28/03 | Tony Parsons

[annyokie]

Man, is Tony ever committing job suicide. Gotta love him! I posted an article of his yesterday that was so inclusive of Bush and Blair that his bosses must be wetting thier pants.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Yes, this describes my feelings about France!

[fightinJAG]

Fear the American Street.

Or, as the Brits apparently say, "HOP OFF, FROGS."

[MarkL]

And if something mentioned on Fox News today holds true, the hatred of the French will take on all new levels. In passing (I missed the story), I thought that I heard a Fox News announcer say that it's now believed that France was giving Iraq intelligence information right up to the beginning of the war, and maybe even during it.

Again, I am not sure that I heard this correctly, so please let me know if I'm wrong.

But if this is proven, that will be the end of US/Franco relations as we know them.

Mark

[nopardons]

It's true...see the threads, now current, here at FR. :-)

[George W. Bush]

Russia too, no doubt.

Folks, it's not over yet. They are still working against us. We've won Round One. And Round Two with the Weasels has just begun.

[nopardons]

Yes, you're right. This isn't even the end of the beginning. I have a feeling that we've only just heard the overture

[John Valentine]

Everything you ever wondered about the dirty business France had with Iraq is turnign out to be true and worse.

The dirty French actively cooperated with the the Iraq secret police to identify Irapi refugees and exile dissidents attending a conerence in Paris by secretly allowing in photographers. I believe I have this right.

Ann Cynwyd a British MP and one of the most knowledgable people on the planet was one of the sponsors of this conference and her words were that the French behavior was "atrocious". She is demanding an apology from France. I doubt she'll get one.

If it were me, I'd withdraw our ambassador, and let the Froggies stew on that for a while.

[slasher82]

Come on home Tony.

[patriciaruth]

A little known piece of history is that the Vichy French actually fought against us when we first became involved in WWII. In our invasion of North Africa to oust the Nazi Germans and give us another front for the invasion of Europe, the Vichy French killed several thousand Americans.

These guys are not our friends.

I'll be happy to see Tariq Aziz enscounced in a mansion with a pension if he gives us the goods on the payoffs made to Chiraq and Americans like McDermott.

[drlevy88]

France's friends in Iraq (On the perfidious nature of France and Jacques Chirac)

[Michael121]

These are just the British Grave sites in France. It was the same pretty much at the American graves. Yeah they are our friends. Freaking frogs and why should they "clean" up these monuments and headstones, we cannot even expect them to take a bath. Purfume and cologne yes, but soap NO.

[Quix]

GREAT ARTICLE.

THANKS.

[Quix]

I'm confident it's true they were traitors to the end and beyond.

I HOPE it means the end of the

so called alliance--especially as we've known it.

They are beyond ingrates--traitors, for sure.

And I still think they will end up attacking us. We'd best distance ourselves and prepare well ahead of time.

I suppose one could make an argument for making them our friends to preven such an attack. But I don't think that's possible. They are too arrogant and selfish. Besides that, their rulers are power mongerers after the model of

her unroyal lowness,
her hideous heinous--
Bwitch Shrillery Antoinette.

[Caipirabob]

But the British admire a certain je ne sais quoi about French life.

That "je ne sais quoi" is also called a total and complete lack of morality. Also I don't think the British admire it. Rather, they are astonished by it.

The British have been bitch-slapping the French for hundreds of years. They don't have it in their heart to hate perhaps because they almost pity them.

[Quix]

I strongly agree with you.

[Quix]

Our Ambassador and every shred of industry with any remote defense application.

And I'd triple advertising on ALL the compeditors of French products.

And every month, I'd insure media exposure to updates on the French boycott with slants toward increasing such.

[Quix]

Now that's a thought.

Weasels, traitorous weasels indeed.

Would Aziz be THAT CANDID? If not, no deal!

[Savage Beast]

Americans have also always had a love affair with la belle France.

However,

"France, by consistently blocking action against Saddam, unquestionably propped up one of the vilest regimes on the planet"

And it was far worse than that. France covertly and in stunning treachery allied itself with and supported a quasi-Nazi enemy that had attacked the United States.

American contempt for Chirac, Villepin, and the French people who support them is the same contempt they have for Adolf Hitler, Klaus Barbie, the French collaborators, and the rest of the Nazi thugs.

French betrayal of America is deeply resented, but the real contempt is for the 21st-century version of Naziism that has taken control of France.