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France surrenders. Again |
Posted on 05/23/2004 3:40:10 PM PDT by veronica
The French are beyond a second salvation by America. In 1944, Paris was liberated by America and her allies, though a French armored brigade was given the ritualistic opportunity to enter Paris one day before the Americans. After a boot kissing welcome for Nazi invaders in 1941, the French curtsied for 4-years to Hitler's thugs and managed to save Paris for future generations of tourists. In 2004, their boot kissing hero's welcome for Michael Moore's Bush bashing film at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival is the final straw for me.
I wouldn't support the loss of one single American life to again liberate France from its occupiers. After my 25-years of business dealings in France...and many, many business and personal trips...I will never set foot in France again.
"In 1940, German troops overcome the concrete defenses of the French Maginot Line by simply going round it. May 27 - June 4, in a massive exercise involving 299 British warships and 420 other boats of all sizes, a third of a million Allied troops are evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk, under constant German bombardment. This leaves France at the mercy of the German army, which enters Paris on 14 June. June 10, Italy declares war on France and Britain.
June 22, France capitulates." http://www.unverse.com/WW2.html
France capitulated...brave and noble warriors that they were. The French Vichy collaborators then spent 4-years entertaining their German tourists. http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0tmc/occupied/collabo.htm
On June 6, 1944, thousands of allied soldiers died on the beaches of Normandy, France, as they participated in the D-Day invasion of France...not to defeat and occupy France...but to defeat the Nazis to whom the French had capitulated 4-years earlier. http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/Normandy/Pictures.htm
Thousands of Americans still lie in graves on the coast of Normandy...while millions of French thumb their noses at America's efforts to liberate those oppressed by another dictatorial regime...Saddam Hussein's jack-booted henchmen and left-over terrorists.
In May, 2004, the French rejoiced at the spectacle of an American film maker, Michael Moore, vilifying George W. Bush, President of the United States of America. The international media, including America's, rejoiced at the awarding of the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or, to "Fahrenheit 9/11" by Michael Moore.
Paris - The International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/521332.html
New York Daily News - Michael Moore Gets 20-Minutes Standing Ovation at Cannes Film Festival
For all of you who can stomach it, here is the link to Moore's comments during the award ceremony: http://www.festival-cannes.fr/journal/index.php?langue=6002
Here are the names of the judges of that Cannes Film Festival and the link to the 2004 Cannes Film Festival: http://www.festival-cannes.fr/jurys/index.php?langue=6002
Benoît POELVOORDE, Director
Edwidge DANTICAT
Emmanuelle BEART, Actress
Jerry SCHATZBERG, Director
Kathleen TURNER, Actress
Peter VON BAGH
Tilda SWINTON, Actress
Tsui HARK
Marisa PAREDES, Actress
Nicole GARCIA, Actress
Nuri Bilge CEYLAN, Director
Pablo TRAPERO
Alain CHOQUART
Alberto BARBERA, Director of Museum of Cinema
Aldo TASSONE
Anne THERON
Diego GALAN
Isabelle FRILLEY
Laure PROTAT
N.T. BINH, Distributor
They can all go to hell as far as I'm concerned, and Michael Moore can shove the Palme d'Or where the sun don't shine.
The United States of America will be standing tall and making sacrifices for the freedom of the truly oppressed long after the America haters are left hiding in the battered turrets of their own Maginot Lines.
Let them eat CaCa.
Dennis M. Becklin, Publisher
SouthernOregonNews LLC
GrantsPassNews.com
MedfordNews.com
NewsAshland.com
france has been a total disgrace for centuries. It's a shame good died libertating those vile creatures.
These two has-beens are not French.
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France surrenders. Again |
Tilda Swinton just got cast as the White Witch in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardobe", a film I expect to see no matter what its villainess may do in the meantime. All things may turn to the good in the end.
But it is certainly true that some in the entertainment industry prove remarkably pliable when it comes to castigating Bush after giving Clinton passes in similar or worse foreign policy adventures.
The dark one...that's because when his mass moves between the earth and the sun...
You really gotta wonder about a guy who needed the Michael Moore fawning as a 'final' straw for France. How many chances was he giving them - I wrote them off while I was in High School and they wouldn't allow US planes to use their airpsace in the early 80s bombing run on Libya.
Anybody else notice that the Lamestream Media have given more coverage to that "black hole with a mouth" Michael Moore than they did to finding SARIN and technologically advanced delivery shells in Iraq?! Or give to Nick Berg's decapitation video?! Or to the EVIDENCE that the attack on the Terrorist safehouse was NOT a "wedding"?!
France has been begging O'Reilly to lift the boycott. He won't do it. I think it really hurt them.
This is a long list, so make a copy and send it to all your friends! Boycott French products!!!
"...Commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better
instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat
us with justice." --Thomas Jefferson (1797)
FRENCH PRODUCT LIST (Please forward this list)
Air Liquide
Alcatel
Allegra (allergy medication)
Aqualung (including: Spirotechnique, Technisub, US Divers, and SeaQuest)
AXA Advisors Bank of the West (owned by BNP Paribas)
Beneteau (boats)
BF Goodrich (owned by Michelin)
BIC (razors, pens and lighters)
Biotherm (cosmetics)
Black Bush
Bollinger (champagne)
Car & Driver Magazine
Cartier
Chanel
Cheese labeled "Product of France"
Chivas Regal (scotch)
Christian Dior
Christian Lacroix
Club Med (vacations)
Culligan (owned by Vivendi)
Daniel Cremieux
Dannon (yogurt and dairy foods)
DKNY
Dom Perignon
Durand Crystal
Elle Magazine
Essilor Optical Products
Evian bottled water
Fina gas stations and Fina Oil (billions invested in Iraqi oil fields)
First Hawaiian Bank
George Magazine
Givenchy
Glenlivet (scotch)
Hachette Filipacchi New Media
Hennessy
Houghton Mifflin (books)
Jacobs Creek (owned by Pernod Ricard since 1989)
Jameson (whiskey)
Jerry Springer (talk show)
Krups (coffee and cappuccino makers)
Lancome
Le Creuset (cookware)
L'Oreal (health and beauty products)
Louis Vuitton
Magellan Navigational Equipment
Marie Claire
Martel Cognac
Maybelline
Méphisto (shoes and clothes)
Michelin (tires and auto parts)
Mikasa (crystal and glass)
Moet (champagne)
Motel 6
Motown Records
MP3.com
Mumms (champagne)
Nissan (cars; majority owned by Renault)
Nivea
Normany Butter
Ondeo/Nalco Water Treatement
Parents Magazine
Peugeot (automobiles)
Perrier Sparkling Water
Pierre Cardin
Playstation Magazine
ProScan (owned by Thomson Electronics, France)
Publicis Group (including Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising)
RCA (televisions and electronics; owned by Thomson Electronics)
Red Magazine
Red Roof Inns (owned by Accor group in France)
Renault (automobiles)
Road & Track Magazine
Roquefort cheese (all Roquefort cheese is made in France)
Rowenta (toasters, irons, coffee makers, etc.)
Royal Canadian
Salomon (skis)
Seagram's Gin
Sierra Software and Computer Games
Sitram Cookware
Smart & Final
Sofitel (hotels, owned by Accor)
Sparkletts (water, owned by Danone)
Spencer Gifts
Sundance Channel
Taylor Made (golf)
Technicolor
T-Fal (kitchenware)
Total gas stations
UbiSoft (computer games)
Uniroyal
Universal Studios (music, movies and amusement parks; owned by Vivendi-Universal)
USFilter
Veuve Clicquot Champagne
Vittel
VIVENDI-SEAGRAM
Wild Turkey (bourbon)
Wine and Champagne labeled "Product of France"
Woman's Day Magazine
Yoplait (The French company Sodiaal owns a 50 percent stake)
Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Rocher
Zodiac Inflatable Boats.
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Are you saying Bush will lose the election?
I wish I didn't feel that way... but: I just don't see how any sort of winning GWB campaign is sustainable, in the face of this naked, red-eyed and never ending media onslaught against the man, at this point.
I pray I'm wrong, of course.
,,, if Michael Moore wants to critique Bush for his actions in Iraq, he should take some time to chronicle the actions of the French in Algeria from 1954 thru 1962 and even beyond that period. The French were responsible for around 70,000 deaths in Algeria, including many Algerians loyal to France.
Maybe this guy wasn't old enough at the time to remember.
France can go pound sand, as far as I am concerned.
I also had a business dealing with a frenchy. I was stabbed in the back for no reason.
Never forget that FRENCH graffiti "artists" descrated the graves of American soldiers buried in France with the following slogan:
"Come get your garbage - it's polluting our land!"
*** their boot kissing hero's welcome for Michael Moore...**
I think they were kissing about three feet higher than his heels. There is much more kissing area there for the Frenchies.
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