[Elle Bee]

Great paper .... great graphics ........ 4 weeks free:

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[goldstategop]

Its just like Chiraq to bludgeon other countries into opposing America to serve his selfish interests.

[livius]

Sheds a whole different light on things, if true. What do you think, a_Turk. Any French/German influence?

[Jumper]

France is under great economic pressure. The Bush Administration should make every effort to further cripple the French economy; calculating the cost of the war effort, the economic effort and the lost diplomatic wages as a starting poing and then adding 100% for "pain and suffering". It is the best interest of America immediately, and all Europeans down the road, to neuter France's aggressive Political-Economic Gambit and force her back to debtor status.

[An.American.Expatriate]

I knew it at the time but couldn't prove it.

[David Isaac]

Bush Sr. "intuited" the New World Order?

Yeah, just like Lenin intuited Communist Russia. Small point of history: When Bush Sr. was running for President in 1980, against Reagan, he was forced out of the game by conservatives (yes, real ones), for his affinity for things international and his support of the NWO.

[irish guard]

Ping

Seems it isn't just our favoring the PKK during the Xlinton era.....Our "friends" the French seem to really wanted the Iraqi Butcher Saddam to remain in charge.

Methinks the French have a lot to hide or explain when this is all over. In either event, I suspect there is more to this story than was found in the Wall Street Journal article you led me to yesterday......REmember, Bush, unlike Xlinton is a man of his word....Your (The Turks) mistake not to have believed that.

[Magnolia]

...if they voted to help the Coalition war effort, Turkey would be locked out of Europe for a generation. As one Turkish leader put it, "there were no promises, only threats."

It should come as no surprise that a young, inexperienced government, would be intimidated by what they feared ...being "locked out of Europe". Given the seeming Euro-wide opposition to the US, Turkish officials were forced to make a choice they were ill-equipped to make.

I'm not excusing Turkey's decision, but there were other pressures that should be considered. Their government now realizes this great mistake and seem to be making efforts to make amends.

[PGalt]

Good article, thanks for your post.

[Diogenesis]

ChiIRAQ is the leader of the French Axis of Evil.

His only role should be to assist Annan and Blix as human "canaries"
for French/Russian/German-engineered WMD located in Iraq.

France itself has systematically proven itself as a shi%%y little whore of a country.

[mgist]

Great article this is a keeper. More ammunition for arguments about my French friends.

[MoralSense]

bttt

[DB]

Turkey had a choice between America and France. They chose France. Let France provide for their common defense, let France guarantee their loans, let France give them military and financial aid. France offered the most, now let them pay for it. I no longer consider Turkey a friend. Friends don't let friends down in their time of need.

When the German economy goes down the toilet, the French can't be far behind. Let the economic cold war begin.

[BunnySlippers]

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[StriperSniper]

Great paper

Hard copy reader bump.

[fporretto]

Several commentators have noted France's half-century-long attempt to build alliances in the Arab / Muslim world that would allow it to counterpoise itself to American interests there. This looks like a good example of such -- and an even better example of how Paris will use such alliances to our detriment.

Turkey, of course, was willing to be bought, for the right price. Any chance some part of that price might have found its way to the French, or to particular persons in the Chirac Administration? You think?

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[happygrl]

My suspicions all along.

I knew the French were blackmailing the Turks over EU membership.

The question now is, what is EU membership worth, now that it means that the Europeans will not have the protective security from the U.S.?