Posted on 02/07/2007 7:37:57 AM PST by pissant
Violence in Iraq will continue to worsen until all foreign troops are pulled out, Dominique de Villepin has warned, dismissing as "absurd" the idea that an enlarged US force could bring stability and peace to the country.
In an interview with the Financial Times, France's prime minister indirectly criticised the decision by US President George W. Bush to boost his country's military presence in Iraq.
Mr de Villepin, who has just three months left in office, said an occupying force was itself the "founding stone of the crisis" and a clear timetable had to be set for its withdrawal.
"The idea of saying that foreign troops will leave when Iraq is democratic and pacific is absurd. It will never happen," he said, chopping his desk with the side of his hand in his ornate office at the Hôtel Matignon.
"Whatever the level of foreign troops in Iraq, things will continue to deteriorate.
"We need a clear horizon for the departure of foreign troops and the return of full sovereignty to Iraq. Until this is clearly stated, with the stages and the objective of a total withdrawal, things will not improve. I do not know a single diplomatic subject that can be fixed without a clear schedule."
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Why can't we just learn to whine snivel and give up like the French??
The French government couldn't close an umbrella.
If these sissies say we shouldn't surge troops in Iraq, that, by definition, must mean it is the correct thing to do.
Minister Pine-Village is still around?
French PM Attacks Iraq Troop Surge. Then Surrenders.
If this many liberals are whining, it usually means we're right.
I don't usually want to smack someone, the frog made me do it.
Dominique, stop crying like the little girl that you are.
Military advice from the French is like marriage counseling from Scott Peterson.
The French had no problem with a troop surge back in June of '44.
...and this from a man who has lead la belle France over the precipice of denial and hubris into impending tragedy!
bet this cheese eating surrender monkey waits for the fleet to come in and can handle all the troop surge he can get.....
He just wants a French comfort level with what is going on in the Middle East. The French understand withdrawal, not attack. And they're very good at determining the exact moment they should switch from withdrawal to retreat to rout.
Typical gutless liberal statement - whine and cry but offer no real alternative (other than surrendering.)
The French surrender monkey speaks.
to The French, STFU...
you are a worthless POS
Don't look now Dominique but your Renault is on fire.
They might want to rethink their '44-position. At least the Nazi's weren't controlled by the evil Joooz, like the Americans were.
OK. Pull ALL the U.S. troops out of Europe. Let's see what happens.
Europe continues to bite the hand that keeps the peace. Imagine if Europe were left to defend itself from itself. There would be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mark Twain had the French nailed!
A French married lady cannot enter even a menagerie without bringing the purity of that menagerie under suspicion.
- Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals, Notebook #19, July 1880-January 1882
The objects of which Paris folks are fond--literature, art, medicine and adultery.
- - speech at the Stanley Club in Paris, ca. April 1879
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals--apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
- Mark Twain's Notebook
I like to look at a Russian or a German or an Italian--I even like to look at a Frenchman if I ever have the luck to catch him engaged in anything that ain't delicate.
- Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
France has usually been governed by prostitutes.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
A Frenchman's home is where another man's wife is.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
M. de Lamester's new French dictionary just issued in Paris defines virtue as: "A woman who has only one lover and don't steal."
- quoted in A Bibliography of Mark Twain, Merle Johnson
There is nothing lower than the human race except the French.
- quoted by Carl Dolmetsch, Our Famous Guest
It is human to like to be praised; one can even notice it in the French.
- "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us"
In certain public indecencies the difference between a dog & a Frenchman is not perceptible.
- Notebook #17, October 1878 - February 1879
It appears that at last census that every man in France over 16 years of age & under 116, has at least 1 wife to whom he has never been married. French novels, talk, drama & newspaper bring daily & overwhelming proofs that the most of the married ladies have paramours. This makes a good deal of what we call crime, and the French call sociability.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
French are the connecting link between man & the monkey.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
Trivial Americans go to Paris when they die.
- Notebook #18, Feb.- Sept. 1879
...anywhere is better than Paris. Paris the cold, Paris the drizzly, Paris the rainy, Paris the damnable. More than a hundred years ago somebody asked Quin, "Did you ever see such a winter in all your life before?" "Yes," said he, "Last summer." I judge he spent his summer in Paris. Let us change the proverb; Let us say all bad Americans go to Paris when they die. No, let us not say it for this adds a new horror to Immortality.
- letter to Lucius Fairchild, 28 April 1880, reprinted in Mark Twain, The Letter Writer
An isolated & helpless young girl is perfectly safe from insult by a Frenchman, if he is dead.
- Notebook #20, Jan. 1882 - Feb. 1883
A dead Frenchman has many good qualities, many things to recommend him; many attractions--even innocencies. Why cannot we have more of these?
- Notebook #20, Jan. 1882 - Feb. 1883
France doesn't believe this about the Ivory Coast.
Amen
*The French supported Qaddafi, selling him arms when they had sanctions against Isreal.
*They sold Saddam Hussein billions of arms he used against his own people.
*They funded the Iraq Osirak nuclear plant which the Israelis had to destroy in 1981.
*They received Khomeini in 1978, when it was clear he was planning an insurrection against the shah, and provided him lines of communication through which to mobilize demonstrations, leading to the Iranian Revolution.
*They granted safe haven for Haj Amin el-Husseini, the muffi of Jerusalem, retuning him to the Middle East when he was wanted as a war criminal in 1945.
*After French rights and welfare were granted to Muslims and Arabs in 1974, their immigration increased greatly. Muslims constitute 10% of the French population. The Muslim population is not assimilated because the French government makes little effort to integrate it, and live with 60-70% unemployment in slums with drug and crime problems. These factors contributed to the 2005 riots.
*The French government has refused to stand by its Jewish population, causing their exodus from France to triple.
*France is once again blocking U.S. efforts, choosing to appease the state of Iran, which threatens genocide and death to Americans and Jews.
*France believes in the phrase "la France est une puissance musulmane" (France is a Muslim power); they have taken the position that the Jews are not a nation, must never be a nation, while incorporating Muslims into their own nation.
Their political careers are on the line. They're invested in defeat. If the U.S. brings democracy and a representative government to the middle east, the lefties become the losers. They want Socialist rule.
These pics say it all.
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