Le Monde Editorial: 'Bush's Mistakes'

AP ^ | 9/11/6

[SmithL]

PARIS -- "We are all Americans," France's Le Monde newspaper proclaimed on Sept. 12, 2001, speaking for millions worldwide in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States. Five years later, the respected daily carried a very different message Monday: Its lead editorial was titled "Bush's Mistakes."

The paper's assessment five years ago reflected a collective shock and sympathy felt in France and many nations that has given way to a much more complex view of the United States since then, particularly after the war in Iraq.

In its issue Monday, Le Monde called the war in Afghanistan a "relative" success and the war in Iraq "a major error" based on false pretenses.

"Since Sept. 11, America has not, it's true, been attacked on its territory, but the world has changed for the worse," it wrote.

"The goal remains to destroy al-Qaida and delegitimize its ideology. But the task is substantially tougher. In five years, the United States has pushed the world toward the clash of civilizations al-Qaida had wanted."

[SmithL]

The French surrender to the Terrorists is complete.

[mewzilla]

Click here for an editorial cartoon that sums up my opinion on this subject.

[COBOL2Java]

Bush's mistake: respecting the French.

[dead]

"We are all Americans," France's Le Monde newspaper proclaimed on Sept. 12, 2001

And we should have taken it as insult that day.

The French do not fight back in the face of aggression.

The French cower and cajole and hide and beg for forgiveness when they’re not even sure what they’ve done wrong.

If the French call themselves Americans again, we should all fly over there and give each one of them a kick in the ass, a swirly, and knock on the head with a ball peen hammer.

[eyespysomething]

They wish they were American.

[Diogenesis]

France lets 50,000 of its people die of heat shock. N'est pas?
France lets antiSemites murder Jews and deface cemetaries. N'est pas?
France then sends its Presidential Jet to pick up one of the biggest serial murderers of Jews, Christians, and children in the world,
and flies him to the finest French military hospital for the finest French care. N'est pas?

France: Next time, defend yourself.

FLASHBACK: France paid for the scalping of early Americans

"On February 29, 1704, a party of French and Indian raiders
descended on the Massachusetts village of Deerfield, killing fifty residents and
capturing more than a hundred others. A force of more
than two hundred Frenchmen, Abenakis, Hurons, Kahnawake Mohawks,
Pennacooks, and Iroquois of the Mountain overran
the northwesternmost village of the New England frontier.
The attackers took 112 men, women, and children captive.
The book Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (Native
Americans of the Northeast) by Evan Haefeli, Kevin Sweeney
follows the raiders and their prisoners on the harsh
three-hundred-mile trek back to Canada and into French and Native communities."

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=========== French missiles given to Iraq to be USED Against US and Coalition Heroes =========

French missiles found by the Poles, and to protect France, blown up.

Froggies said they did not say "2003". LOL. Decide for yourself.

[LZ_Bayonet]

Ok, somebody help me out - what France thinks is important because...?

[syriacus]

In its issue Monday, Le Monde called the war in Afghanistan a "relative" success and the war in Iraq "a major error" based on false pretenses.

Things might be better if "Old Europe" had helped and if Democratic obstructionism hadn't heartened the terrorists.

[theDentist]

The only people who buy Le Monde just want to have a snootier newspaper to housebreak their puppies.

[Dems_R_Losers]

In its issue Monday, Le Monde called the war in Afghanistan a "relative" success and the war in Iraq "a major error" based on false pretenses.

Translation: French officials and French corporations didn't lose any money in Afghanistan. But they lost billions in business and bribes when Saddam Hussein was taken out.

If the Left wants a real conspiracy to talk about, why won't they talk about the French conspiracy to keep Saddam Hussein in power?

[Dems_R_Losers]

I added some keywords for you. :^D

[Cobra64]

First, these cowards should mind their own business. Second, Jaques-Strap Chirac made a big fuss that the UN should send 15,000 peacekeepers after the cease fire between Israel and Lebenon; and subsequently the French ante up 400?

(who has that pic of the French troops in the inflatable rafts?)

[ArGee]

"We are all Americans," France's Le Monde newspaper proclaimed on Sept. 12, 2001, speaking for millions worldwide in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States. Five years later, the respected daily carried a very different message Monday: Its lead editorial was titled "Bush's Mistakes."

Le Monde said "we are all Americans" because they thought America would roll over and play dead the way the French would have. Once they realized Americans weren't cheese-eating surrender monkeys, they knew they had made a mistake. The French might have been Americans when Nepolean was their Emperor, but they are not any longer.

Shalom.

[SmithL]

Why, thank you.

[RJL]

the war in Iraq "a major error" based on false pretenses.

France opposing the United States brought oil deals with Saddam that would pay huge amounts of money to the French political elites and France in general.

Chiraq and his cronies are still very angry and blaming the US for them not getting their money.

[TNCMAXQ]

Gee how lucky we are to have these brilliant elites up in their ivory towers telling us how wrong we are. Whatever would we do without the US and foreign media telling us that it is Mr Bush who is the true focus of evil in the world. Otherwise those of us who are too dumb to know better would be blaming those misunderstood terrorists!

[jmaroneps37]

This piece was read by a french surrender monkey hiding under his bed, using a flashlight and whispering.

[Chi-townChief]

Coming from France (and San Francisco), this is a compliment.

[LonePalm]

I don't think the French political elites have recovered from WWI.

The signature block says it all.

Il n'y a pas d'honte être français. Il y a seulement l'honte dans rester de français.
(There is no shame in being French. There is only shame in staying French.)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)