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ATTACK FRANCE!
AnnCoulter.org ^ | Dec. 20, 2001 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 02/17/2003 4:13:20 PM PST by FairOpinion

AS PUNDITS MULL whether America's next target in the war on terrorism should be Iraq or a smaller quarry first – such as the Sudan or Somalia – it's time to consider another petri dish of ferocious anti-American hatred and terrorist activity. The Bush doctrine is: We are at war not only with the terrorists, but also with those who harbor them.

We've got to attack France.

Having exhausted itself in a spirited fight with the Nazis in the last war, France cannot work up the energy to oppose terrorism. For decades now, France has nurtured, coddled and funded Islamic terrorists. (Moreover, the Great Satan is getting a little sick of our McDonald's franchises being attacked on behalf of notoriously inefficient French dairy farmers.)

At the 1972 Olympics, Muslim terrorists assassinated 11 Israeli athletes and one German policeman. Five years later, acting on intelligence from Israeli secret police, French counterespionage agents arrested the reputed mastermind of the massacre, Abu Daoud. Both Israel and West Germany sought the extradition of Daoud. Afraid of upsetting Muslim terrorists, France refused on technical grounds and set him free.

In 1986, Libyan agents of Moammar Gadhafi planted a bomb in a West Berlin discotheque, killing an American serviceman and a Turkish woman. Hundreds more were injured. President Reagan retaliated with air strikes against Libyan military targets – including Gadhafi's living quarters.

Quaking in the face of this show of manly force, France denied America the use of its airspace. As a consequence, American pilots were required to begin their missions from airbases in Britain. When the pilots finally made it to Tripoli, tired from the long flights and showing a puckish sense of humor, they bombed the French embassy by mistake. POW! So sorry, our mistake.

France has repeatedly decried economic sanctions against Iraq and has accused the United Nations of manufacturing evidence against Saddam Hussein. The U.N., not even the Great Satan. The French U.N. ambassador dismissed aerial photographs of Iraqi military trucks fleeing inspection sites just before U.N. weapons inspectors arrived as – quote – "perhaps a truckers' picnic."

Along with the rest of the European Union, France sends millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority every year. Sucking up to the P.A. has really paid dividends to the craven butterbellies. While visiting Arafat in Gaza last year to announce several million more dollars in aid, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin was attacked by angry, stone-throwing Palestinian students.

Earlier this year, France connived with human-rights champions China and Cuba to toss the United States off the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Sudan took America's place, and, if its diplomats are not too bogged down with human torture and slave trading, they are very much looking forward to attending the meetings.

This summer, Paris made Mumia Abu-Jamal an honorary citizen of Paris. In America's cowboy, bloodlust, rush-to-judgment approach to the death penalty, this convicted Philadelphia cop-killer has been sitting on death row – and giving radio interviews and college commencement addresses – for 20 years. Since "Mumia" sounds like a Muslim terrorist, Parisians can use the same bumper stickers for the war.

Two weeks into America's war on terrorism, Le Figaro began calling for "American restraint." In polls, 47 percent of the French said they believed the U.S. military action was failing. Seventeen percent thought it was working (which was – admittedly – 17 percent more than on the New York Times editorial page). Flaunting France's well-established reputation as a fearsome fighting machine, the French foreign minister, Hubert Vedrine, immediately advised the United States to stop bombing Afghanistan.

The first indictment to come out of the Sept. 11 attacks was of a French national, Zacarias Moussaoui. He is believed to be the intended 20th hijacker on Bloody Tuesday. France quickly moved to extend consular protection for Moussaoui. Intriguingly, French Justice Minister Marylise Lebranchu has demanded that Moussaoui not be executed.

Mlle. Lebranchu seems to have forgotten, but WE ARE THE GREAT SATAN! We also have Moussaoui. It's annoying enough when these celebrated Nazi slayers refuse to extradite terrorists on the grounds that America does not observe the pristine judicial formalities of their pals, China, Cuba and the Sudan. But under what zany theory of international law does France think it can tell us what to do with a terrorist we caught right here on U.S. soil?

The Great Satan is wearying of this reverse hegemony, in which little pipsqueak nations try to impose their pipsqueak values on us. Aren't we the ones who should be arrogantly oppressing countries that unaccountably do not have the death penalty?

And now, as America goes about building support for an attack on Iraq – guess who's complaining? The turtlenecked chickens are terrified of offending fanatical Muslims and inviting a terrorist attack, but Arab leaders are supposed to face down the vastly larger populations of crazies living in their own countries. While France whines, Turkey – a predominantly Muslim country, I note – is preparing its airstrips for a possible U.S. attack on Iraq.

If this is a war against terrorism and not a Eurocentric war against Islam, the conclusion is ineluctable: We must attack France. What are they going to do? Fight us?


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attack; france; iraq; war
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I hope it's OK to repost an old Ann Coulter column, but it is becoming more and more timely. I think we SHOULD take over France and Germany, on the way to Iraq. Then they will have a reason to whine, but actually then they wouldn't dare let out a peep. Better we take them over, than Saddam. If it were up to them, they would allow Saddam to take over Europe, not to mention the Middle East.
1 posted on 02/17/2003 4:13:20 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
Okay....where are the pictures?

I thought it was an FR rule that anything she writes must be accompanied by one or two photos.

I personally think she is skinny, pale and dry but i am surprised by the restraint.

2 posted on 02/17/2003 4:16:16 PM PST by VaBthang4 (c)
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To: FairOpinion
If we are struck with WMDs that France/Germany sold to Iraq, then a full retaliatory strike against these states is necessary.
3 posted on 02/17/2003 4:20:47 PM PST by Lexington Green
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To: FairOpinion
Years ago, we went to England and France for an anniversary trip. Among the many negative experiences we had in France, one incident stood out - our French maid asked that we leave her a roll of American toilet paper as a tip! Although we were in a 'four star' hotel, we had been advised to bring our own Charmin and were so glad...their 'hygiene' paper was rougher than what we used to use at the local gas station to clean the windshield! Maybe what we're dealing with is a type of TP envy! Where is Mr. Whipple when you really need him?! LOL!
4 posted on 02/17/2003 4:23:11 PM PST by Indiana Jones
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To: FairOpinion
Let the frogs know how you feel about them:

http://www.info-france-usa.org/contactus.asp

JP
5 posted on 02/17/2003 4:25:09 PM PST by EscapedDutch
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To: FairOpinion
La France - toujours là quand ils ont besoin de vous!
6 posted on 02/17/2003 4:25:24 PM PST by OOTB
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To: FairOpinion
I suspect a few packs of Webelos, armed only with .22s, could parachute into Ste. Mere Eglise in Normandy and using only the tools they bring with them and the decommissioned military assets displayed at the Musée Airborne capture the port at Cherbourg within two weeks.
7 posted on 02/17/2003 4:29:27 PM PST by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: OOTB
I think this could be the start of a long and beautiful relationship.
8 posted on 02/17/2003 4:35:45 PM PST by JusPasenThru (Oh crap...no amusing tag line.)
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To: JusPasenThru
On peut seulement espérer
9 posted on 02/17/2003 4:42:58 PM PST by OOTB
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To: Lexington Green
If we are struck with WMDs that France/Germany sold to Iraq, then a full retaliatory strike against these states is necessary.

Bush should publicly tell the French and Germans that any WMDs the US finds in Iraq will immediately be picked up and airdropped back into France and Germany.

After all, there aren't any WMDs in Iraq now, right?

10 posted on 02/17/2003 4:44:50 PM PST by jigsaw
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To: FairOpinion
It's not any fun to attack France, they always give up

and their women have hair under their arms.

11 posted on 02/17/2003 4:46:56 PM PST by DainBramage
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To: DainBramage
Hair or no hair let's take the wine and woman as booty.
12 posted on 02/17/2003 4:54:10 PM PST by Emeraldgold
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To: FairOpinion
Why don't all the terrorist sympathizing, America-hating lefties at DU and elsewhere just move to these Axis of Weasel countries? It would be just like the expulsion of Jews from all the Arab countries after Israel's creation, which the Left continues to ignore.
13 posted on 02/17/2003 4:55:50 PM PST by Democratshavenobrains
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To: FairOpinion
I think we SHOULD take over France and Germany, on the way to Iraq.

Ewwww... the aftereffect and thought of the French sharing the patriotic identification of "American" is enough to make me hurl!     

14 posted on 02/17/2003 5:01:18 PM PST by GirlShortstop
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To: FairOpinion
How much more arrogant and hypocritical can the French president get? To threaten the Eastern Europeans by denying them entrance to the European Union because of their support for the United States denotes the delirious mind of an old decrepit leader with Napoleonic dreams who lives disassociated with reality. Doesn’t president Chirac forget that once, during the occupation of Spain by Napoleon Bonaparte, the French soldiers taken prisoner after being defeated by the Spaniards were exchanged for « petit couchons ”?
15 posted on 02/17/2003 5:04:15 PM PST by Dqban22
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To: DainBramage
and their women have hair under their arms.

Oh yea thats sexy

16 posted on 02/17/2003 5:05:32 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK (An American Fellowship of Freedom loving Conservatives..... <*[[[[[><)
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To: FairOpinion
We've got to attack France

There's no honor in attacking such sniveling cowards.

17 posted on 02/17/2003 5:07:42 PM PST by Smedley
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To: Smedley
Maybe not, but since we are waiting to attack someone, why not France? Just to take the edge off...
18 posted on 02/17/2003 5:39:32 PM PST by sarasmom (I will journey to the grave of Jimmy Carter in order to spit on it.May my journey be soon.)
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To: FairOpinion
Does anyone on here have the quote on the French made by John McCain recently?
19 posted on 02/17/2003 5:41:22 PM PST by My Favorite Headache (Which one will lose? Depends on what I choose or maybe which voice...I ignore.)
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