So, let's add them up. France now has Sarko, Melissa Theuriau, and the wines of the Rhône Valley.
That's enough to change my mind. Vive La France!
Nicolas Sarkozy seems to be taking the lead in dealing with Iran and Lebanon. France has changed in just one short week.
This just in from The Tocqueville Connection
http://www.ttc.org/200705231436.l4neaq824914.htm
FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER KOUCHNER TO PAY VISIT TO LEBANON
- France’s new Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner will pay a visit to Lebanon on Thursday and Friday to show solidarity with Beirut at “this critical time”, the foreign ministry said.
Kouchner will be making his first visit to the Middle East since his appointment to the rightwing government of President Nicolas Sarkozy last week.
“His visit is aimed at asserting France’s solidarity with Lebanon and with its people, at this critical time,” said a foreign ministry statement.
An estimated 10,000 refugees have fled a battered Palestinian camp in northern Lebanon since the two sides halted fire on Tuesday after three days of gunbattles between government troops and a shadowy extremist group.
The Lebanese government has vowed to crush the “terrorist phenomenon” of Fatah al-Islam, a group of Sunni Islamists which emerged only late last year.
Kouchner, a prominent leftwinger and humanitarian, is due to meet with Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, parliament speaker Nabih Berri and other leading politicians.
Siniora’s rump anti-Syrian cabinet has received staunch backing from France since the departure of six pro-Damascus ministers last November.
Former president Jacques Chirac was a close friend of billionaire Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri, who was killed in a 2005 bombing widely blamed on Syria.
Time to mobilize the French riot police.
Alright. But let's see some ACTION now. See what kinds of ACTIONS Sarko authorizes.
So maybe Sarkozy doesn’t have his hand in Irans wallet like Chirac did.
Hopefully this is the start of someone who is real and not just a crooked P.O.S.
Buy French; we were very tough on them when they were no with us; we MUST show our support now. Buy French! Visit Paris (except in summer).
France better have very good “Secret Service” protection for Sarkozy and his family. Not long before some local Mohammedans start gunning for him
- ‘Sarko’ is, without a doubt, one of the most popular men in France today. He probably stands a very good chance of becoming the most popular European in the US too...
Europe will not slumber forever.
This is an amazing turnaround. France standing up to the anti-Israel, pro-Arab, anti-American UN.
Sarkozy is no Chirac, and Kouchner no Villepin.
This just in from The Tocqueville Connection:
http://www.ttc.org/200705231203.l4nc3sn09377.htm
FRANCE JOINS US PROTEST OVER UN NUCLEAR CHIEF’S COMMENTS ON IRAN
- France will add its voice to protests by the United States over UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei’s comments that Iran should be allowed to keep some uranium enrichment, officials said Wednesday.
“Our permanent representative in Vienna will join the American initiative,” said a foreign ministry spokesman. “We share, along with several other partners, the substance of the concerns expressed by our American partners.”
The United States is seeking to protest directly to ElBaradei for saying in recent newspaper interviews that Iran should be allowed to keep some uranium enrichment, diplomats said in Vienna, the headquarters of International Atomic Energy Agency.
“France continues to support the process undertaken by the (UN) Security Council, including insisting on suspension (of uranium enrichment) and, if there is no suspension, sanctions,” said France’s foreign ministry spokesman.
The United States leads Western nations in insisting that Iran freeze all enrichment work in order to start talks on trade, security and technology benefits in return for Tehran guaranteeing it will not seek nuclear weapons.
Enrichment is hugely sensitive because the process can be used to make the core of an atom bomb as well as nuclear fuel.
Iran refuses to abandon enrichment as it says it needs to produce fuel for nuclear reactors to eventually produce electricity.
ElBaradei told The New York Times on May 15 that Iran has progressed in its enrichment work, as it not only defies UN resolutions but expands its enrichment capacity.
“From a proliferation perspective, the fact of the matter is that one of the purposes of suspension (of uranium enrichment) — keeping them from getting the knowledge — has been overtaken by events,” he said.
ElBaradei said “the focus should be to stop them from going to industrial scale production,” rather than expecting the Iranians to stop all enrichment.
I like this guy already!
I LIKE THIS GUY! VIVA SARKOZY! I RAISE MY GLASS OF FRENCH WINE TO YOU!
So, let's add them up. France now has Sarko, Melissa Theuriau, and the wines of the Rhône Valley.
That's enough to change my mind. Vive La France!
Thanks Cincinna. I think the administration here should do something subtle, which would also be a bit of a send-up of the Doomsday Clock — whenever there’s a press conference (with or without the president) a clock should be displayed behind the podium, set some number of minutes before midnight, to indicate how much more time Ahmedeadman has to live.
Surprised?
I guess it has to count as progress - for little kiddies just waking up and rubbing the sleep out of their eyes.