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Best of Enemies: Time to restore the beautiful friendship with France? Not at all
Opinion Journal ^
| 06/20/03
| JOHN J. MILLER
Posted on 06/19/2003 9:09:04 PM PDT by Pokey78
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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It seemed like a joke at first: A handful of restaurants changing the names of their French fries to "freedom fries," a few bartenders pouring French wine down street drains and a chain of French-owned hotels lowering their tricolor flags. The craziest idea, appropriately enough, came from Congress, when Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, a Florida Republican, proposed exhuming the patriot graves of American soldiers buried in France and bringing them back to the U.S.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: france; frenchboycott; frenchhistory
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posted on
06/19/2003 9:09:04 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
Central Europe is so DONE.
2
posted on
06/19/2003 9:15:24 PM PDT
by
agincourt1415
(Liberals on the Run)
To: Pokey78
No mention of the rise of the Euro here. I suspect that explains about half of it. To ignore that, is rather unfortunate.
3
posted on
06/19/2003 9:18:37 PM PDT
by
Torie
To: Torie
The rise of the euro has done wonders for my international mutual funds, not the mention the trade deficit with europe.
4
posted on
06/19/2003 9:50:39 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: gcruse
Diversification is a good thing. Good for you.
5
posted on
06/19/2003 9:53:08 PM PDT
by
Torie
To: Pokey78
6
posted on
06/19/2003 9:57:57 PM PDT
by
Henchman
To: Pokey78
France is only now, being forced to acknowledge and behave appropriatly for her TRUE position and relevance in the big picture...
France is now, firmly implanted in the Third Turd World.....
Exactly where the backstabbing, lying, ungrateful, unreliable, powermad, envious and overreaching bitch belongs....
Semper Fi
7
posted on
06/19/2003 10:11:20 PM PDT
by
river rat
(War works......It brings Peace... Give war a chance to destroy Jihadists...)
To: Pokey78
Why didn't somebody think of a boycott sooner?
Precisely. I will never forget. I'll continue to eat Freedom Fries and do without my L'Oreal. I'll skip Canada and Mexico as well. Let us hope that the French are finally paying a price for their betrayals.
To: Pokey78
Bump
9
posted on
06/20/2003 7:59:04 AM PDT
by
RJL
To: Pokey78
says Mr. Allen in a promotional video. "I will not have to 'freedom kiss' my wife when all I want to do is French kiss her." This was a mistake. Most Americans really don't want to think about Allen so much as giving his wife a peck on the cheek. Exactly. The picture of creepy Woody Allen toung-kissing his Wife/Daughter does not soften my attitude towards Frantz. Quite the contrary, in fact.
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posted on
06/20/2003 8:41:15 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(Run Al, Run!!!)
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