We won't shut up, Mr Chirac, says East Europe

Reuters | 2/18/03 | Sean Maguire

[Freebird Forever]

In the US we can & do exercise the freedom to "vote with our dollars" every day.

Did they forget to teach you that over at DU troll school?

[Menkenspiel]

Chirac threatened these counries. Can you point out where the US has done that?

If only to watch Chirac blow a real gasket, I think somebody needs to float a trial balloon suggesting "new Europe" states consider U.S. statehood as an alternative to EU statehood. Now that would be funny!

[Moby Grape]

You sound like a mindless liberal..."We are NOT a bully for tryin to push ours?"....Do you define being non-partisan as AGREEING with France?..That is the way liberals define it...just agree with them, surrender your principals, and you are now non-partisan in their view...but let's get more to the meat of the matter...We have a dictator who has GASSED his own people to death, including women and children...they dropped where they stood, as he experimented with this weapons, using them for test animals. He has invaded a neighbor attempting to take over Middle East oil, then set the oil fields ablaze has he exited (that should have been enough to trigger the liberal envoirnmentalists to call for his head...never mind those women and children gassed to death, now the low life has killed some birds and put toxic smoke into the air...oh the horror).
It is NOT a matter of forcing our will on the world...we are RIGHT...he is a monster who will kill you and your children if left to it...someone one has to be a leader, and God knows Clinton wasn't...eight years of Clinton and NOTHING done about Saddam....This nation cannot survive if it follows the head-in-sand approach of the UN, France, and Germany.

[taxcontrol]

.....that Paris expects them to show humble gratitude for being granted membership and wants them to accept French primacy in the bloc.

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Maybe the US should go a court the east european countries. Perhaps offer Poland and other US friendly countries statehood. Doubt they would take us up on it but it sure would put a bee in the bonnet of the French.

Be kinda fun to watch.

[doodad]

welcome to free republic.

[ch.man]

One East European diplomat said Chirac had spoken in a tone that not even the Soviet Union would have used with its Warsaw Pact clients during its 40 year dominance of the region.

It says a lot about who the french and the people in power in France now really are. Does not bode well for the famous EU constitution.

[Menkenspiel]

Great minds think alike! (see my post above)

[ladtx]

You forgot the < /rant>

Very good response. I agree TOTALLY!

[Mamzelle]

The EU wants Ireland, Ireland is not eager to join the EU. I didn't say Ireland didn't want the Eastern Europeans in. France and Germany and Italy are dying, culturally.
New Europe ought to form its own competing organization and clean up.

[Core_Conservative]

I think you have the accent on the wrong words....LOL

A Frenchmann EXPECTS gratitude....not

A FRENCHMAN expects GRATITUDE?

[MrPeanut]

I think the French President has illustrated how a good idea like the EU is really a bad jumping point back into a Hitlers dream. The future EU is just as dangerous as Iraq is today.

[machman]

Blacque Jacque Shellacque, Chirac in another life....

[ErnBatavia]

There is just something wrong in using the words "French" and "Bully" in the same context...

[taxcontrol]

Yah beat me to it!!

Seriously though, now that I've had more than a second to think about it - I think it would be a good diplomatic move. It would box France and Germany in very nicely. Let's just assume that Poland is offered statehood and accepts. We could then move our troops out of Germany into Poland and take our dollars with us. German economy tanks, Poland starts selling lots of goods to the US and it places a solid foot print on European soil.

France blows a gasket because the would now have to COMPETE for new states in the EU. The anti-US stance would be very much a mill stone around their neck. Diplomaticly, the US shows the world that we reward our friends and punish those that oppose us and smack the crap out of those that attack us.

Such a move would send shock waves not only through the current diplomatic world but would have long term impact as well.

[VeniVidiVici]

why dont you vote with your dollars for a free press .... that might help ya guys out

I'd say that most of us already do.

[Freebird Forever]

why dont you vote with your dollars for a free press .... that might help ya guys out

What's your point, troll?

I can get all the information that google can translate right here on the computer.

[Core_Conservative]

Maybe - since NATO is imploding - we could offer these states a new protectorate - similar in nature to the Warsaw pact - but with Republican Principles! - just a thought!!!

[Clara Lou]

You post some really interesting ones. Bump for later.