France Launches Prgm. in US to Monitor Trade Reprisals

Hoovers Financial News ^ | March 29, 2003

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[VRWC_minion]

Uh oh. Next they'll tow their aircraft carrier over here.

[RS]

I'll bet Sodexo-Marriot does the food catering services for Columbia U.

[Zipporah]

OH? So the French businessmen are concerned about French products being boycotting.. I say tit for tat.. I was VERY tempted today to purchase an L'Oreal product instead I purchased a comparible product from an AMERICAN company.. The French can go pound salt.

[tessalu]

France is at the very top of the **** list.

[elbucko]

There is concern among French businessmen over whether they may be about to suffer the consequences....

The French need not be concerned about whether there may be consequences for their duplicity.

They can count on it.

[DannyTN]

I hope they successfully monitor the trade as it dwindles to a trickle. Maybe next time they won't so easily let some economic ties make them side with an evil dictator against the leader of the free world.

I suppose it's too much to hope that they actually grow some balls and do the right thing because it is the right thing regardless of the economics.

[Happy2BMe]

France has inspired Canada . .

Hotels feel pinch [Lose millions as U.S. biz cancels]

[sinkspur]

Good. The French are nervous.

What are they gonna do about the friggin' empty hotels on the Champs Elysses this summer?

Goody-Goody, largest wine retailer and wholesaler in Dallas, has moved all large displays of French wine to the back of their three warehouse stores, "back by the shi**ters," as one of the managers told me this week.

He said they've stopped ordering French wine and champagne, since it will likely take all summer to work off current inventory at current sales levels. IOW, French wine sales at this retailer have fallen off a cliff.

Goody-Goody moves $3 million worth of wine each month.

[Drango]

I'm PRO-actively boycotting France. I filled out a comment card from my local Safeway about them buying French products and NOT supporting our troops. So far I've gotten three calls (messages)from their customer satisfaction group...

[SolutionsOnly]

Not only is France on the very top of the s***list, France is a PERMANENT member!

Keep the boycott going!

[Happy2BMe]

A Union Made In HELL!

How history will tell the story:

A. The U.N. sent inspectors into Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction - the same WMD Saddamn said he did not have. Forming new alliances, France, Germany, and Belgium, continually sought prolonged inspection times in their attempts to restrain the U.S. and Britian from attacking Saddam. The U.N. Council repeatedly ruled in thir favor.

B. Saddamn, while insisting (and convincing France, Germany, and Belgium) he had no WMD, at the same time threatened the U.S. and Britian to destroy them (WITH THE SAME WMD HE CLAIMED NOT TO HAVE) if they attacked Iraq.

C. The United States and Britian agreed that Saddamn had not complied with U.N. resolution 1441, had WMD, then attacked and removed Saddamn from power to prevent him (or other terrorists) from using them.

D. After the U.S. and Britian attacked Iraq, vast stores of WMD, chemical, biological, and yes - even some nuclear - were uncovered by the prevailing U.S. and British forces.

E. Saddamn and his two sons were tried before a U.N. tribunal and unaimously found to be enemies of minkind perptetuating mass murders on their own people of magnitudes and ferociouceness not seen since Adolph Hitler's actions created the word "genocide." They were summarily hung for their crimes against humanity. Regrettably the knots where incorrectly tied and the distance of the drop was not sufficient to break their necks. They swung and kicked for almost thirty minutes before strangling to their infamous historical deaths.

F. The Democrats in the United States had their worst election returns in the 2004 elections in that party's history.

G. George W. Bush was elected president for a second term in 2004 by the largest landslide in U.S. history.

H. Ditto for Tony Blair.

I. Hillary Clinton was defeated for his (grin) bid for reelection in New York State.

J. Thanks to the "footdragging" tactics of France and Germany througout the entire world crisis, the United Nations was made to be a laughing stock of historical proportions and was deemed irrelevent and impotent and consequently vaporized into nothingness as did it's predecessor - The League of Nations.

Viva La France - French Military History in a Nutshell (Including *WAR ON TERRORISM*)

[Lexington Green]

... and then we're gonna give the Grand Tetons a proper American name.... something like The Big Jugs.

[Dog Gone]

We need to abide by all trade agreements. On the other hand, if Americans don't wish to buy French products, they won't.

It's not a matter of blocking French products. It's a matter of any demand here drying up.

[Illbay]

Most of these corporate contracts are ambivalent in their affect on France in general. Coporations anymore are not specific to a country, but multinational.

The REAL problem for France is going to be (1) Imports of foodstuffs such as cheese and wine, and (2) TOURISM. Especially the latter.

All it would take is for HALF of all Americans who had planned to travel in France this year to cancel those plans, and France will feel it, far more than if thousands refuse to buy a Peugeot or sleep at a Motel 6.

[Lexington Green]

France can bring its water to America, but they can't make US drink it.

[BlessedBeGod]

There's a whole series of malicious actions that can be taken, but so far we have detected none...

We don't play by those kinds of rules. The hell with you for inferring that we would.

...the feeling is that our companies know how to defend themselves through the quality of their products.

Sorry, but that's not going to help you.

On second thought, I'm not sorry.

[M Kehoe]

France is at the very top of the **** list.

Methinks Rumsfeld just put Syria ahead of the Frogs.

5.56mm

[Enemy Of The State]

I cant believe they even have the nerve to call that an aircraft carrier.