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Chirac bid to lift China arms ban
BBC World News ^ | 8 October 2004 | Caroline Wyatt

Posted on 10/08/2004 1:59:37 PM PDT by Cornpone

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To: Se7eN
Chirac is living on borrowed time...the only thing that has kept him alive politically has been his anti-Iraq war stance...but he is wearing thin...it won't be long before he becomes a liability the EU can't survive...after all, during the run up to the Iraq war he chastized the new or soon to be new EU members that their support for us represented an "excellent chance for them to keep their mouths shut." I don't think our allies will put up with that crap for much longer.
21 posted on 10/08/2004 2:21:04 PM PDT by Cornpone ((Aging Warrior))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Rice eating surrender monkeys. With apologies to Jonah Goldberg.


22 posted on 10/08/2004 2:21:29 PM PDT by The Great Yazoo (JFK: He's a real nowhere man, Sitting in his nowhereland, Making all his nowhere plans For nobody)
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To: Cornpone

Let's hope so ;)


23 posted on 10/08/2004 2:22:11 PM PDT by Se7eN
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To: Se7eN

Hope is one thing we can embrace but I still pray every night...


24 posted on 10/08/2004 2:23:53 PM PDT by Cornpone ((Aging Warrior))
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To: Cornpone

Now that Saddam is gone, the Chinese must be Jacques new "Best Bribery Buddies".


25 posted on 10/08/2004 2:25:15 PM PDT by Reo
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To: Cornpone

I can't believe that any liberal/lefty thinks that France has a principled foriegn policy. Just goes to show you how dumb people can be. France (with Russia and China) were by far the main arms suppliers to Iraq. France tried to build Saddam a nuclear reactor. France took bribes and oil contracts in exchange for support of the murderous dictator Saddam. Now France, is chomping at the bit to sell weapons to mainland China which is menacing the vibrant democracy of Taiwan. The French even held joint military drills with the PRC at the same time Taiwan was having their elections. Of course the PRC does this every 4 years to Taiwan but this time France joined in on the fun. France does not stand for democracy, it doesn't stand for human rights, it does not stand for anything but cheese, croissants, and their own self-interests. No principles, no ideals. It is sad to say, but France is long gone.


26 posted on 10/08/2004 2:30:26 PM PDT by Avenger
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To: Cornpone
France will sell to whoever has the money. Whores do that.
27 posted on 10/08/2004 2:32:50 PM PDT by atomicpossum (If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Of course they do and they don't really care. They want money. If it doesn't directly endanger them they why should they care.

I'll be damned if the U.S. is going to taken a GLOBAL TEST administered by the likes of France. Non!


28 posted on 10/08/2004 2:32:51 PM PDT by Avenger
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To: speedy
Time for a pre-emptive strike on France. It wouldn't take long, would have widespread support, and would ensure us of a steady supply of excellent cheese from occupied Normandy.

You jest, but as WWIV develops, France, Germany, and China are going to be on the other side. I don't have a guess as to whether it will be cold war or hot war, but the socialists in our country who persist in calling France an old friend are using their heads for corks.

29 posted on 10/08/2004 2:33:31 PM PDT by DC Bound
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To: Cornpone

Earlier this year, I predicted we would be at war with France by year's end. Sorry to say, we apparently have been for over a year...

it was just being repressed and covered up by the press, sort of.

Bush knows it.
Kerry knows it.
It's out there in the open with this kind of crap from jacque and company, their NEW best friends the terrorists and China, the terrorist puppet master.

Kerry has sided with the french.
Kerry is a traitor to our nation.



30 posted on 10/08/2004 2:35:20 PM PDT by Robert_Paulson2 (the madridification of our election is now officially underway.)
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To: Southack

So should we in the US. The Worm wants to arm our enemy? Amazing.


31 posted on 10/08/2004 2:35:30 PM PDT by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
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To: Avenger

I absolutely agree. France is a spoiler that profits from the schisms in a bipolar world. France is now desperately searching for a replacement to the Soviet Union in order to create an opportunity for it to scrape an existence from the slim that oozes out of the crevices of such schisms. Otherwise, France has absolutely no significance in the world.


32 posted on 10/08/2004 2:36:17 PM PDT by Cornpone ((Aging Warrior))
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To: MD_2_BE

You are 100% correct. France has been working over time assisting China in their force modernization plan. They provided some of the gear for the newest generation diesel elec. boats (subs), among other stuff. Iraq was a similar deal. When the Israelis took out the Iraqi nuclear facility (on a Sunday to minimize collateral damage), I am fairly certain that a French scientist was the only casualty, working overtime to arm the (then would-be) enemy, as usual.

We need to be alert when foreign governments use proxies to shadow box with the U.S. in an attempt thwart us by using/equipping elements hostile (or potentially hostile) to the U.S.

If I were running the big show, I would at least consider arming and equipping France's enemies in covert retaliation in an effort to bring down their country. They are doing the exact same thing to us. Think about it, that is precisely what they are up to.

If the US and China ever go to war, you can thank the French (among others) for the upgrade to the ChiCom mil.


33 posted on 10/08/2004 2:36:41 PM PDT by Bald Eagle777 (Death AND taxes. The Democrats offer both. VOTE BUSH/CHENEY in '04 !! www.georgewbush.com)
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To: Cornpone
France sells arms to China! China pays for arms with billions received from U.S. for products which should have been made in the U.S. in the first place! China declares war and uses arms on ???????????

Wouldn't it be something if China declared war on France. ha ha ha ha ha ha

34 posted on 10/08/2004 2:38:53 PM PDT by GOPologist
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To: Cornpone; ValerieUSA; blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Understandable, since France no longer can sell to Iraq. Nice of Jackie to get the sanctions lifted before resuming the sales this time... well, assuming...
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

Election 2004 threads on FR

35 posted on 10/08/2004 2:39:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: DC Bound

I agree wholeheartedly. It's been a long time (if ever, really) since the French were friends of ours. And these days they are going out of their way to be treacherous. There will be a reckoning someday.


36 posted on 10/08/2004 2:44:26 PM PDT by speedy
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To: Cornpone

Just as long as the french arms are not lifted, can you imagine the smell?


37 posted on 10/08/2004 2:49:16 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Bald Eagle777

I would at least consider arming and equipping France's enemies in covert retaliation



a short list of their 'enemies'?
WHO hates france?

The Poles?


38 posted on 10/08/2004 2:50:20 PM PDT by Robert_Paulson2 (the madridification of our election is now officially underway.)
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To: Se7eN; Cornpone

No, Cornpone, the praying rug is YELLOW like the streak on S##tracks back.


39 posted on 10/08/2004 2:53:17 PM PDT by GOPologist
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To: speedy

Normandy is already occupied by Americans--unfortunately they were killed protecting France from the Nazis. What fools we were.


40 posted on 10/08/2004 2:56:22 PM PDT by GOPologist
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