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France's US envoy slams "racist campaign" against French over Iraq war (MULPH!!GAG!!HACK!!BARF!!)
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Posted on 04/15/2004 1:42:59 PM PDT by .cnI redruM
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) - France's ambassador to the United States denounced what he called a "racist campaign" against the French waged by US media and fueled by the Pentagon (news - web sites) since the start of war in Iraq (news - web sites).
Ambassador Jean-David Levitte, told staff, students and diplomats at the University of California at Los Angeles that Fox News and the New York Post, media baron Rupert Murdoch's properties, led the onslaught with a daily barrage of insults.
"It was a racist campaign," he said in a speech to the university's School of Public Policy and Social Research. "We were insulted just because we were French and it was unfair and dangerous."
He said such a campaign would never have been tolerated in the United States if had it been directed against blacks or Jews.
The envoy said the campaign of disinformation included "lies from the Pentagon," but said it ended quickly after he lodged a complaint with US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) last year.
He cited a Washington Times report in May -- the substance of which he said originated from the US Department of Defense (news - web sites) -- that falsely stated France had supplied passports to top officials from Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime to allow them to flee Iraq following the US-led occupation.
The wave of insults and disinformation spurred by France's opposition to the US invasion of Iraq has since been halted and relations between the two countries and their peoples were strong, he said.
"We went through a real diplomatic hurricane. It is now time to de-escalate," he said, adding that a planned June 5 summit between US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and French President Jacques Chirac and other top-level meetings would help that process.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eurotrash; omg
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Memo to the French - make like WWII and give it up!
To: .cnI redruM
Being French is not a matter of race. It's a matter of character flaws.
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posted on
04/15/2004 1:44:40 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Leftists claim Bush is a terrorist. So why aren't they trying to appease him?)
To: .cnI redruM
so now france is a race amoung themselves? how redicules are they going to become before someone invades and takes over?
To: .cnI redruM
Imagine that, they're victims. Who'd a thunk it?
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posted on
04/15/2004 1:46:59 PM PDT
by
rhombus
To: .cnI redruM
It's not that we're arrogant, we're just a whole lot better than they are.
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posted on
04/15/2004 1:47:44 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
To: go star go
They trace their noble bloodline back to Asterix The Gaul!
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posted on
04/15/2004 1:48:36 PM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Air America - at least Al Jazeera can pay their bills to stay on the air.)
To: .cnI redruM
Racist? Right. And the fact that they were making tens of millions of dollars on the backs of innocent Iraqis has nothing to do with their opposition to the war.
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posted on
04/15/2004 1:48:43 PM PDT
by
Peach
To: .cnI redruM
Race? Good Grief, besides being cowards, smelly, and drunks, now we cn ad STUPID.
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posted on
04/15/2004 1:49:53 PM PDT
by
marty60
To: .cnI redruM
Natch that the French consider themselves a separate race. Considering their animosity toward anything related to America, they might even consider themselves non homo sapiens.
To: .cnI redruM
Uh. The French are Caucasian, just like we are.
If the French US envoy is this stupid, imagine what the rest of them are like.
To: Prime Choice
Being French is not a matter of race. It's a matter of character flaws. LOL! I was thinking the same thing.
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posted on
04/15/2004 1:51:17 PM PDT
by
PsyOp
(All war presupposes human weakness, and seeks to exploit it. - Clauswitz, On War, 1832.)
To: .cnI redruM
Hey, look on the bright side. Now those of us with French ancestry can apply for affirmative action programs.
To: .cnI redruM
The backstabbing frogs deserve all the derision they're getting .... and more. They double crossed Turkey the other day after Turkey heard their siren song and screwed us during the Iraq war.
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posted on
04/15/2004 1:54:46 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(“We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way.” - Toby Keith)
To: .cnI redruM
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posted on
04/15/2004 1:55:15 PM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: .cnI redruM
"It is wrong to be French."--Al Bundy
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posted on
04/15/2004 1:56:00 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
("If my deepest, darkest despair had choreography -- *this* would be it." -Tom Servo)
To: finnman69; .cnI redruM
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posted on
04/15/2004 1:59:07 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: .cnI redruM
Hey Frenchy! Is that the stench of desperation I detect? Or just a hunk of bad cheese? Insult us some more. That'll make us want to buy your crap and stay in your islamic pig sty again. Not! The more we learn, the more callous the French become. What used to be simply annoying in the French is now obviously ugly... hateful... racist. They can go to hell. I'll NEVER knowingly buy anything french again.
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posted on
04/15/2004 1:59:52 PM PDT
by
johnb838
("I really don't care; they're all gonna die," US Marine in Fallujah)
To: .cnI redruM
French surrender bump.
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posted on
04/15/2004 2:01:37 PM PDT
by
wjcsux
(DemocRATS, Vladimir Lenin's "useful idiots".)
To: .cnI redruM; SierraWasp
I recently made a coast-to-coast trip by car and stayed in motels...ummmm, let's see...7 times. I am proud to report that not once did I stay in a Motel 6 [french-owned].
Still have that list Waspman?
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posted on
04/15/2004 2:02:39 PM PDT
by
snopercod
(When the people are ready, a master will appear.)
To: .cnI redruM
It's can't be racist, they are slightly less than color. Perhaps a nice jaundiced color. le moron II
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posted on
04/15/2004 2:03:16 PM PDT
by
Jaded
(Through Him all things are possible)
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