In the Heart of France, Anti-U.S. Mood Softens

The New York Times ^ | 04/12/2003 (for editions of 04/13/2003) | John Tagliabue

[KC_Conspirator]

No trace of chemical arms or weapons of mass destruction were found, he said, and broad swaths of Iraq lay destroyed.

That is a lie. We have tons of evidence, including at least three labs, chemical weapons, radiactive materials, two terrorist camps, and a torture chamber.

[pogo101]

While I'm sure some French wines are a good value for the money, by and large the best values are American, Australian and Chilean. So I agree with you all the more about being able to resist vin au grenouille.

[truth_seeker]

"Even after the collapse of Mr. Hussein's rule, French disapproval of the war is overwhelming."

The French need to recognize that Americans are starting to disapprove of the Liberation of France.

The cost in blood to liberate France, exceeds the cost in blood to liberate Iraq.

We'll be able to look back, in a few years, and determine how Iraq turned out. We know now that France turned ungrateful.

Maybe Iraq will turn ungrateful, too. Leading up to Gulf War II, there were signs of that being the case, for Kuwait (later it has turned out better).

[Vision Thing]

Nicole Keene is one of a minority among the French who says the war is justified. "I don't mean I was for it," said Ms. Keene, 59, the director of the local social security office. "But it was needed, in a sense."

After this faint praise for the coalition cause, I wonder how long Chirac will let Nicole keep her government job.

[SBprone]

"I don't think you can resist our wines," he said.

Great wines are now produced all over the world. Spain, Autstralia and Chile produce some of my favorites. California has been on line for a long time but prices for premium wines are now out of line. Not so with some outstanding wines from Washington State.

I doubt that the French know much about this. They certainly don't seem to care.

[Tunehead54]

While most people in France say the principal American motivation for war was oil, he said he saw it as a reaction to the terrorist threat. "Sept. 11 was sort of the drop that made the bucket overflow," he said.

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This one gets me. Just a drop?

[PoisedWoman]

rejection of the war was softening as British and American successes mounted.

Like their soft cheeses, the hearts of the French grow smellier as they soften and no amount of French perfume can cover the stench.

[Asher]

'But she criticized the United States for being selective in the injustices it sought to mend. "I see the Palestinian issue, why don't they intervene there?" she said. "The Americans have lots of interests in the region. Yet the Palestinians have only rocks to defend themselves."'

Rocks AND suicide bombers. But, of course, she does not see dead Jews; in the same way no Frenchman or Frenchwoman saw a thing when the French police and French government, together with millions of "ordinary" citizens, collaborated in the murder of 100,000 French Jewish citizens.

It is her foul country that has no moral right to exist after participating in genocide, not the State of Israel. They are not the dirt beneath our feet.

[McGavin999]

Every day I am surprised to find out that it IS possible to hate the French more. They are such a totally dispicable people that I seriously doubt if that will ever be eliminated from my thinking.

[Paul Atreides]

"I don't think you can resist our wines," he said.

Not only your wines, but also your whines.

[Porath]

Judging from immigration and birth rates, France will one day become the first Islamic republic in Europe. Notre Dame will be turned into a mosque and the Eiffel Tower will become the world's most famous minaret. The only French tradition it will retain will be its hatred of the Jews. -And that'll be the end of their wine industry!

[medscribe]

Julien Vazzoleretto saw the same images, yet his reaction was equivocal. "One tyrant less," said Mr. Vazzoleretto, 25, who is unemployed. "But at what price?"

It is a price that the French are incapable of comprehending or paying, because it is the price of AMERICAN courage, AMERICAN honor, and AMERICAN blood to LIBERATE the people of Iraq. French bastards are incapable of understanding that just as we CHOSE to pay for their freedom from Hitler's tyranny 60 years ago, we CHOOSE to pay for Iraqi freedom from Hussein today. Only this time around, we have finally seen who our true friends and allies are, and France, Germany, Canada, and Russia can get the hell out of town and not bother coming back. It was chants of USA and LONG LIVE BUSH that was heard throughout Iraq this past week, and that shall be the picture that history remembers, not a picture of the poodle Chiraq and the rotweiler Schroeder pocketing blood money from a tyrant.

[demkicker]

"Julien Vazzoleretto saw the same images, yet his reaction was equivocal. "One tyrant less," said Mr. Vazzoleretto, 25, who is unemployed. "But at what price?"

What price, you ask? Because your ilk preferred to continue looking the other way while Saddam murdered and tortured millions of people. I'd say those lives were worth a helluva lot more than French contracts.

If this jerk truly wants to "help" the Iraqi people, he'll join the chorus for France to forgive Saddam's debts. That's the least his pissant country can do, oh, and stay the hell away from us. We need a loooooong time to cool down.

[lilylangtree]

Yeah, right! The frenchies might be bothered to find out that the Americans can support and boycott just as much and just as hard as the frenchies can.

[tiamat]

blake6900 wrote:

To the victor go the spoils and the last time France ever won a war was the French Revolution...and they lost that one, too...

__________ Well, they did well under napoleon for a time, but then he wasn't really French, was he? ;-)

Tia

[HardStarboard]

>>>We can resist their wines which usually come in behind the good Napa Valley Wines and Australian wines in blind tasting without French Judges like in the Winter Olympics. <<<

The wines of Washington State are tops and have won many blind tastings against formidable French, California and Austrailian offerings.

The only drawback to Washington wines is that they come from a state that is at least as socialist as France. But then California and Australia are in the running for that prize too!

[tophat9000]

France's secret weapon

“I don't think you can resist our whines"

God please no more French whines... it inhuman!

[Grampa Dave]

Some of those wines from the vineyards on the shores of the Columbia River vineyard areas are great wines. A couple of those Merlots are superb.

[beckett]

Nicolas Poschard, a 35-year-old accountant, was less forgiving of the United States. "There are many economic dangers," he said. "Now you have to attack the whole world — Korea, Iran." No trace of chemical arms or weapons of mass destruction were found, he said...

Oh really? Check out this latest --- Suspected chemical warhead found in Kirkuk.

I get a kick out of these idiots who confidently assert that Iraq has "no" WMDs, when they know damn well coalition forces have had only a few weeks to cover an area the size of California in search of WMDs, and only a few days to question people in a position to know where WMDs might be.

[peeve23]

." No trace of chemical arms or weapons of mass destruction were found, he said, and broad swaths of Iraq lay destroyed. "Who is going to rebuild it?" he said. "We, the developed countries."

Oh, really.

What about the missiles, the bombs, the tanks, the sprayers, the enriched uranium, the plutonium, the terrorist camps?

Their government and their media will not permit fair reporting.

We should leaflet France.

Perhaps they thought that in the middle of a war we should send of inspection teams to get killed?