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France To UN: Drop Dead
WSJ.com ^
| Feb.14, 2003
| JAMES TARANTO
Posted on 02/14/2003 12:49:21 PM PST by conservativecorner
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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It appears increasingly likely that when an American-led coalition liberates Iraq, it will do so under the authority of 17 U.N. Security Council resolutions rather than 18. As a matter of international law, this will not matter, but as a matter of international politics it could prove to be a very big deal. France may have destroyed the U.N. as a serious institution.
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To: conservativecorner
France may have destroyed the U.N. as a serious institution. If France can destroy the UN, will we still hate them?
Of course, we will.
To: conservativecorner
>>In effect, President Bush posed two questions to the world last year: Can the U.N. be saved? Is it worth saving? It appears now that, thanks to the French, both questions have been answered in the negative. It is a clarifying moment.>>
Hmmmm, maybe we should be thanking the French.....
To: conservativecorner
R.I.P, weasels. And good riddance.
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posted on
02/14/2003 1:18:07 PM PST
by
PoisedWoman
(Fed up with the liberal media)
To: Fintan
Thanks for the list, sad isn't it?
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posted on
02/14/2003 1:22:31 PM PST
by
citizen
To: AmericanInTokyo
JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL.
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posted on
02/14/2003 1:24:29 PM PST
by
chiefqc
To: Fintan
I have a friend who was a pathfinder in Vietnam. He said the deal that the French did with the UN was that we (US of course) would have to compensate them $100,000 for every rubber tree that we blew up. So Vietnam from their perspective was about saving their rubber plantations.
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posted on
02/14/2003 1:24:35 PM PST
by
richardtavor
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, and pray for the French....)
To: richardtavor
we are going and france gets this much IRAQI OIL AFTER =0
To: conservativecorner
France To UN: Drop Dead Good idea. Drop on France.
Paris, after all, is a good place for all those turd-world gangsters :)).
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posted on
02/14/2003 1:30:07 PM PST
by
Cachelot
(~ In waters near you ~)
To: vrwinger
They could well have made a deal in hell with Iraq. France could be hurredly asking, through its companies, to the Iraq customers, to have evidence of any French complicity destroyed; and the deal is the France would stall on the international front to give Iraq enough time. Iraq, on the other hand, may need many of those materials, machines, and what not, to fight when the great infidel comes. A lot of crap is going to come out over this. I think the French know their products, services and companies are 'toast' in the huge American market for them, for years to come. It will serve them right.
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posted on
02/14/2003 1:32:24 PM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Heading to the store to turn in my unused Perrier for a refund; gonna' buy British scones instead)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Steyn's piece indeed has an interesting take, that France's target is not just the U.S., but Tony Blair. Eliminating Blair would eliminate a rival for EU leadership. That would explain why Blair was eager to organize the group of eight to push back at France.
Too bad the leftie Labourites are so blinded by their anti-Americanism that they don't see the French want them out and the europhobic Tories in so there is no British rival to their leadership of the EU.
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posted on
02/14/2003 1:35:03 PM PST
by
colorado tanker
("Hi, my name is Hans and I'd like to inspect you" (overheard pick up line))
To: Fintan
Ze French?
We are cowards?
Mon Dieu!
No!
No!!!
One thousand times no!!!!
I must sit now...
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posted on
02/14/2003 1:35:58 PM PST
by
Luis Gonzalez
(The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
To: xJones
Yes, let's rustle their truffles. That will get them where it counts. Mmmm. I promise I'll use only American eggs and butter in the omelettes!
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posted on
02/14/2003 1:36:30 PM PST
by
colorado tanker
("Hi, my name is Hans and I'd like to inspect you" (overheard pick up line))
To: Fintan
The Complete Military History of France Y'know, this was funny the first 300 times I saw it yesterday. :-)
To: AmericanInTokyo
"I think the French know their products, services and companies are 'toast' in the huge American market for them, for years to come. It will serve them right."
They've been messing with us for years anyway.
I bet that's bottled French tap water.
Otherwise, why would it spell out N-A-I-V-E backwards?
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posted on
02/14/2003 1:40:22 PM PST
by
Luis Gonzalez
(The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
To: conservativecorner
France may have destroyed the U.N. as a serious institution. Well, in that case, then GO FRANCE!
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posted on
02/14/2003 1:53:16 PM PST
by
A2J
(France is a nation of poo-poo heads.)
To: conservativecorner
FRance has a HUGE oil deal in with Saddam
That's what they are really worried about
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posted on
02/14/2003 1:53:20 PM PST
by
uncbob
To: AmericanInTokyo
You mean BATARDS!
To: conservativecorner
These days when I hear Powell he sound TICKED.
He worked and worked and worked to get the French to sign off on Resolution #17. He thought he had 'em.
But, no. The cheese-eating surrender monkeys are also the
FROG-LEGGED BACKSTABBERS.
They double-crossed Powell and all of us. They will pay.
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posted on
02/14/2003 3:43:21 PM PST
by
fightinJAG
(We will not tire. We will not falter. We will prevail.)
To: conservativecorner
In effect, President Bush posed two questions to the world last year: Can the U.N. be saved? Is it worth saving? It appears now that, thanks to the French, both questions have been answered in the negative. It is a clarifying moment.
THE UN IS DEAD.......Thanks France......
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posted on
02/14/2003 4:00:52 PM PST
by
TLBSHOW
(God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
To: Luis Gonzalez
Holy crap! You're right about that name. I quit drinking Evian-naivE water long ago after I read an article about it. I don't know if it was here or on Drudge's site, but it said that, in repeated tests, European bottled waters come up with traces of human feces in them. I don't know if the Europeans like traces of feces in their water or if they just think it's funny to sell it to us that way, but it's disgusting either way.
Only American waters for me. I make sure to tell this to anyone I see with Euro-fecal water. Most people are very appreciative of the info.
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