[Ginifer]

Excellent article.

[mewzilla]

It is an excellent article. Thanks for posting it.

Chirac and company can prove their goodwill by endorsing the democratic process in Iraq and by writing off a substantial chunk of Iraq's foreign debt.

It's odious debt. The Iraqis aren't required to repay it.

[samtheman]

President Kerry would ratify the Kyoto accords

Wow! In all the excitement of Bush winning this election I clean forgot about Kyoto!

One more thing to be ecstatic about!

No more talk about Kyoto!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Oh la la! This was the first reaction of the French elite yesterday as they learned about President George W Bush's re-election.

Beats their usual reactions, upon being surprised, overtaken or cornered, of "We Surrender!" and "There! The Jews Are Over THERE, Herr Colonel!"

One television anchor in Paris was literally struck dumb momentarily when, after hours of crowing over Kerry's victory and the American people's supposed liberation from Bushist tyranny, he had to admit that things had gone differently.

Wait. Wait. So, what you're telling me, here, is: Dan Rather is FRENCH -- ?!? :)

[DSBull]

What's that sound that I hear?...Could it be the sound of Sphincters tightening around the EU and Arab world..I think it might....

Time is coming boys to pay the fiddler...

[Drammach]

Ooh, La, La... Indeed..

on the assumption that Dubya would be a one-term president.

That was a serious mistake, wasn't it???

[haikim39]

O la la.. merde! les Americains vont rester en Iraq pour toujours! Et nous? nous n'avons rien, rien...

[crazycat]

How the election played out during European time could not have been crueler to GW enemys. They all went to bed euphoric at his defeat, doubtless drunk from their premature celebrations.

To wake up with a major hangover and find out it was all a deception, really would have hurt.

One almost thinks a higher authority planned it that way.

[nmh]

Guess the gigilo Mohammad is not in charge after all. The false Allah's impotent, spiritually.

This is one fine moment for Bush. He worked his tail off. He stood up for what is right despite unbelievable adversity - including skewed exit polls meant to disfranchise Bush voters. It didn't work. None of the dirty tricks Demoncrats pulled worked. I'm still amazed and floating on air.

My lawn sign and car still have Bush on it. I'm savoring the moment.

Most importantly, the true God, the Judeo Christian God heard our prayers!

[livius]

Good article! Of course, Chirac has already shown his unwillingness to face reality by snubbing Allawi, who is currently in Belgium.

[mdmathis6]

Knowing Bush...he'll graciously accept the overtures of these countries with a "By Gorsh, water under the bridge sort of way"!

[trebb]

Bush now has four full years in which to implement his ambitious plan

Super! Not having to run a campaign during his second term should allow him to keep exerting pressure on the Dims in the Senate - might actually make some real inroads...

[bobjam]

The Winners:
Tony Blair
John Paul II
Silvio Berlesconni
Vladimir Putin
The People of Poland
Allawi
Prime Minister of Japan
Ariel Sharon
John Howard
Hammad Karzai
Musharref

The Losers:
Chirac
Shroeder
Paul Martin
Vicente Fox
the Prime Minister of Spain
Tehran
Damascus
Kim Jung Il
Koffi Annan
Rowan Williams
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
Hugo Chavez
Fidel Castro
Nobel Prize Committee

[7.62 x 51mm]

It must suck to be a part of "Old Europe", these days, and for the foreseeable future.

[Outlaw76]

bump for later

[MeekOneGOP]

Amir Taheri: Young Bush teaches 'old Europe' a lesson

Excerpt:

With Dubya's victory it would no longer be possible for the Hate-America international to pose as merely anti-Bush. Their claim that Bush and his gang of Likudniks had somehow hijacked the United States, has been swept away by American voters.

So, what is "old Europe" going to do? To start with not much of it is left. Schroeder has been trying hard to compensate for the crass opportunism he showed in 2003 over the liberation of Iraq.

He has sent more troops to Afghanistan to help relieve American forces there, and has assumed a major role in training Iraq's new security forces with help from other Nato allies.

The new Spanish government, too, has tried to modify its initial anti-American posture by sending troops to a number of places, including Haiti, to relieve the Americans.

Within the European Union only France, Belgium and Greece had been active on the anti-American front, at least until Tuesday's election. All three governments had made a strategic choice of systematically opposing Bush policies in the hope that a Kerry administration will adopt substantial parts of their foreign policies.

Yesterday, however, all three were making noises about working with the new Bush administration.

The second Bush administration should give them a chance to prove that they have changed course.

< snip >

Tuesday's message is clear: 9/11 changed America, and no one understands and represents that change better than George W. Bush.

The world will have four years in which to absorb that message.

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[Fiddlstix]

Poor Little Frenchie......
I am deeply saddened.....

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