[MadIvan]

Pardon me while I laugh my head off at the idea of the French begging. ;)

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[LS]

They haven't begged nearly enough, the swine.

We are reshaping the world. In just two years, Bush has accomplished more positively than Teddy Roosevelt in five or Clinton in eight.

[Cate]

Isn't begging and whining part of the French SOP? :}

[xsmommy]

i am LOVING this one!

[Ole Okie]

What? The Frogs are hopping to get back on President Bush's good side?

It may be a cold day in hell before Dubya forgets what these bastards did when the chips were down.

[remitrom]

Hey Ivan, you continue to be one of the best posters around here. thanks buddy.

[Brett66]

Just like a bad puppy dog with their tail between their legs. The French are bad enough when they're arrogant, they're just as bad when they're whining. ESOD Frenchies!

[justshe]

Pardon me while I join you laughing my head off about the French begging!

[Publius6961]

I wish I could remember the name of the idiot on Fox or MSNBC (sorry) who said that he was there at Chirac's office when Bush called him.
I spit coffee all over the place but there it was...

If Bush got on the line first, I hope someone clues him in on how the system works, and what the perceived message is.

Make the frog wait another 2 months!

[William McKinley]

It is what poodles do best.

[Sir Gawain]

Bush is the one that called, correct?

[Thud]

ping

[dyed_in_the_wool]

nd officials argue that the successful French attempt to scupper a second United Nations resolution extended far beyond M Chirac.

I thought the French were opposed to the 19th resolution on Iraq, not the second...

[small voice in the wilderness]

Oh jeez. chirac wearing his hair-shirt. Please, this is our chance to be done with them once and for all.

[Beck_isright]

And after watching FNC tonight and hearing that the Mossad and US intelligence think that the French are using private planes to ferry select Iraqis out of Damascus back to France, I'm sure relations will deteriorate even worse. Especially when the part about the French intelligence agency helping Sadamn smuggle WMD's into Syria.

[southernnorthcarolina]

France... France. Name sounds vaguely familiar. Let me think.

Oh, yeah. It's a little country between Andorra and Luxembourg. Don't think it ever amounted to much. Built themselves a big arch, in celebration of what I can't imagine. And a hideous space-needle type thing.

Wonder why W. bothered to take the call, being busy with matters of more consequence and all...

[DoctorMichael]

Bush should of left the Frogs 'on hold' listening to orchestral remakes of bad showtunes for a few more weeks.

[JZoback]

Bush: "Hello, Jacques is that you?"

Jacques: "Hello George. I am vey happy you took my call, I was hoping we could work out ou........."

Bush: "Click"

[thucydides]

Chirac badly needed to make this call in order to pull back from his position that was incurring widespread condemnation even in his own party. In the end, Bush had to take the call to avoid being called petty by the press.
But Chirac's motives haven't changed. The French people seem quite content with a deeply corrupt and profoundly immoral leadership, that in exchange for huge amounts of money coming through oil companies like ELF that were given sweetheart Iraqi oil deals, agrees to permit heavy arms exportation to Iraq that contravened the UN sanctions. French behavior in all of this has cost American lives and treasure, and Bush would be remiss to forget it. Certainly, the American public will be slow to forget. What did it for me was polls in Le Monde showing that between 25% and 33% of French actually wanted Saddam to stay in power, and another amount of about equal size simply didn't care. This is Vichy quality stuff: these people are moral pygmies.

[6ppc]

Pardon me while I laugh my head off at the idea of the French begging. ;)

Let me reflect on that image for a few minutes...

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BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!