REVENGE AS FRENCH LOSE £10BN DEAL

The Sunday Mirror (U.K.) ^ | 03/30/03

[Pokey78]

Tony Blair has told officials to halt a £10billion defence contract won by a French firm - as revenge for Jacques Chirac's veto on UN backing for the war on Iraq.

He has ordered Ministers to stop the biggest maritime contract in British history going to French shipbuilders.

The deal for two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers which will be a lynchpin of Britain's defences for the next 20 years was split between UK-based BAE Systems and French firm Thales.

Thales were awarded their share on condition that much of the work was carried out in British shipyards, saving up to 10,000 jobs.

Now, following the US Pentagon's decision to ban any military contracts or co-operation with France, there is a move to rewrite the contract and switch all the work to British firms.

[Paul Atreides]

This Nelson?

[noutopia]

Benitieu,builds yatchs in Marion SC,that are sold to the rich and snotty.

[Paul Atreides]

LOL!!!

[AlextheWise1]

Considering how the frenchies own carrier has worked so far...
why the hell did the british even think about this in the first place????

[DED]

I remember this scene from Children of Dune... right?
That guy is the Emperor, and that's one of the Fremen tearing his poster down?
Seriously, terrific photo - where did it come from?

[annyokie]

Psst: Pass it on!

[struwwelpeter]

They should've bought that old Ukrainian avianosets while it was on the market.

Think that Chinese "businessman" ever made it into a casino?

[Paul Atreides]

I took the photo of the Iraqi hitting the pic of Saddam with his shoe and put in Chiraq's face.

BTW, a guy tonight on FNC said that the guy with the shoe, hitting the poster of Saddam, now has a death warrant on his head.

[Black Agnes]

Check out post #16.

[DED]

Shouldn't Bill Clinton be in this photo holding Osama bin Laden?

[stlnative]

Oh My Goodness - That is GREAT! (made me spit soda on the monitor!)

[CaptSkip]

Lordy, France 2003 is a keeper...printing now for my World Map!!!

[DED]

Nice job - amazing what you can do with Photoshop!

[blam]

Great. Screw the French.

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

Slug=French

[Centurion2000]

Now why would the British want the FRENCH of all people to build aircraft carriers ????

Do they want a propeller to be shed every time someone puts it in forward ?? Or maybe they like A/C's that are too short to launch planes ...

To France : Suck it up and enjoy being the pariahs of civilization scumbags.

[annyokie]

Ya'll better give me credit! ;)

[so_real]

Tony, Tony, Tony! You have rapidly become one of my favorite people in the whole world! Hit those sissies right in the pocketbook they were trying to protect by turning a blind eye to Hussein.

[DED]

We need a hacker to go into MAPS.com and substitute this for the inaccurate map they're using now.

[Centurion2000]

Wow ... look at all those interstate highways .... guess the Germans and French built them so that German troops would be there in 6 hours instead of a 6 week blitzkrieg.