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WASHINGTON, April 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senator John Kerry issued the following statement tonight in response to the President's news conference: "Tonight, the President had the opportunity to tell the American people what steps he was going to take to stabilize the situation in Iraq. Unfortunately, he offered no specific plan whatsoever. Rather, the President made it clear that he intends to stubbornly cling to the same policy that has led to a greater risk to American troops and a steadily higher cost to the American taxpayer. "We need to set a new course in Iraq. We need to internationalize...

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1485/diamond.html MIDI - SONG SUNG BLEU Sacre bleu, our Frenchman is running...Sacre bleu, for George Bush he's gunning His white flag looks like a rag...he needs a new one'Cause if he wins and plans surrendering...he will look like a bum...he'll look like a bum Sacre bleu...from the Eifel Tower...Sacre bleu, we'll shout "Leftist power!"Because if he wins and he plans surrendering...he willl look like a bum (musical break) His white flag looks like a rag...I think he needs a new oneBecause if he wins and he plans surrendering...he will look like a bum Sacre bleu, Kerry is a phony...Sacre bleu,...

If I were a resident of the United Kingdom I would not pay the BBC licence fee. There is something repulsive about a subsidy culture so secure that a publicly funded organisation can pay its chief executive £500,000 a year off the backs of widows and spinsters. If the BBC wants to throw away million-dollar salaries, it should do so on its own dime. So, in that spirit, I hail the many stellar BBC "personalities" who are said to be threatening to quit the corporation. Go for it, Jonno! Sky beckons! Carlton awaits! And the Beeb can go back to...

I wanted to invite everyone to greet our newest signup, whyareyoudumbandhateful. Do you think his or her first post will be to make a donation on the Freepathon thread?

In France, a bloody political battle is taking place between the ageing President Jacques Chirac and his younger protege, the Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. His omnipresence in the media has led to calls for a Sarkozy-free day Forty-eight-year old Mr Sarkozy has dared to suggest in public that Mr Chirac should not seek a third term in office, but retire to make way for a younger man. Mr Sarkozy clearly has someone in mind for the top job - himself. As the minister, nicknamed Sarko, is currently more popular in the polls in France than his boss, Mr Chirac, that...

After three days of crowing about the American veto of the UN Security Council's resolution proposal, an almost identical resolution was adopted by the UN General Assembly. The Israeli reaction was swift - a contemptuous statement attributing the vote results, 133 to 4, to the Arab bloc's automatic majority in the UN. One can, of course, also congratulate oneself for the allies Israel found in the GA vote - the U.S. alongside Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. One can also ignore the regrettable fact that all the European Union states were among the huge majority supporting the resolution, intended to...

Johnny Depp is feeling patriotic - about France. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star slammed the United States over Iraq in an interview in the German magazine Stern this week. "America is dumb, is something like a dumb puppy that has big teeth - that can bite and hurt you, aggressive," he was quoted as saying. Depp lives in France with the French singer and actress Vanessa Paradis, with whom he has two children. He said he was delighted when he saw that French fries had been rechristened "freedom fries" in the U.S. Capitol canteen. "Nothing made me happier than...

french news BERLIN, Sept 3 (AFP) - Hollywood hearthrob Johnny Depp has slammed US President George W. Bush's policy on Iraq, calling him "one of the worst liars I have ever seen," in an interview with German magazine Stern to appear Thursday. Depp, who lives in France with his wife, pop singer Vanessa Paradis, and two children, told the magazine that "grown-up men and women in positions of power" in the US government had shown themselves to be "idiots" in choosing to go to war against Iraq and attacking Paris for its opposition to the war. The 40-year-old, who plays...

BERLIN - American actor Johnny Depp (news) likened his native country to a "dumb puppy that has big teeth" in an interview published Wednesday, ridiculing Washington's confrontation with France, where he lives, over the war in Iraq (news - web sites). The "Edward Scissorhands" and "Sleepy Hollow" star, who spends much of his time in the south of France with his companion, Vanessa Paradis (news), and their two small children, told the German magazine he couldn't see himself paying more than short visits to his Los Angeles residence in the present political climate. "America is dumb, is something like a...

Johnny Depp Says U.S. Is Like a 'Dumb Puppy' By REUTERS Filed at 7:48 a.m. ET BERLIN (Reuters) - Hollywood star Johnny Depp said on Wednesday the United States was a stupid, aggressive puppy and he would not live there until the political climate changed. The 40-year-old actor, who stars in the ``Pirates of the Caribbean,'' told the German news magazine Stern he was happier staying in the south of France with his wife, the French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis, and their two children. ``America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite...

Photographers caught French President Jacques Chirac in an unusual pose during a press conference with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak

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<p>Yesterday, the French ambassador to the United States, Jean-David Levitte, announced that despite France's opposition to a war in Iraq, "if Saddam Hussein were to use chemical and biological weapons, this would change the situation completely and immediately for the French government ... We have equipment to fight in such circumstances." Thanks, but no thanks, M. Levitte.</p>

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac said Wednesday that a war in Iraq was not inevitable and disarmament could be reached by peaceful means. "War is not inevitable, war is one of the worst solutions," Chirac told reporters after a meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. "France feels that it is possible to achieve this objective (of disarmament) in a peaceful way, that of inspections." Spain this week backed a new U.N. draft resolution circulated by the United States and Britain which says Baghdad has missed a "final opportunity" to disarm peacefully and avoid war. Chirac, who...

BERLIN, Feb 23 (Reuters) - American actor George Clooney stepped up his criticism of George W. Bush's administration on Sunday, saying he feared a war against Iraq was inevitable but would ultimately only lead to more violence. "America's policies frustrate me," Clooney said in a German television programme. "I think a war against Iraq is as unavoidable as it senseless. I think it's coming. But I also think the real danger is going to be what happens after it." Clooney, who in interviews with European newspapers has accused Bush of war-mongering over Iraq, is on a growing list of Hollywood...

BERLIN (Reuters) - American actor George Clooney stepped up his criticism of George W. Bush's administration on Sunday, saying he feared a war against Iraq was inevitable but would ultimately only lead to more violence. "America's policies frustrate me," Clooney said in a German television program. "I think a war against Iraq is as unavoidable as it senseless. I think it's coming. But I also think the real danger is going to be what happens after it." Clooney, who in interviews with European newspapers has accused Bush of war-mongering over Iraq, is on a growing list of Hollywood celebrities to...

Now hearing of boycott of many french products.. Help needed to complete list,, name em if you got em