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Flights From Paris to U.S. Cancelled
MSNBC | December 24, 2003

Posted on 12/24/2003 10:41:16 AM PST by cyncooper

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To: Steve_Seattle
"This comment needs a sarcasm tag. If you're serious, I don't think you've been paying attention for the last eight months. There is no way the Ba'athists were going to give up power without a fight."

Of course they would have. If Saddam had surrendered, which he would have done had France (and the others) stood with us, he would have surrendered the army as well.

There is no excuse for the behaviour of France. None.

261 posted on 12/24/2003 11:40:31 AM PST by Sunsong (Free Republic is a conservative, American site -- try to keep that in mind...)
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To: Steve_Seattle
At this point anything is plausable!!!!
262 posted on 12/24/2003 11:40:33 AM PST by RepublicanArmy (God bless our Troops, Our President, & God Bless America!!!)
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To: Ex-Dem
AWWW! And I used some of my best lines on her!
263 posted on 12/24/2003 11:40:40 AM PST by RandallFlagg ("There are worse things than crucifixion...There are teeth.")
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To: Wait4Truth
Don't wait for an answer as aquaculter's account has been banned or suspended.
264 posted on 12/24/2003 11:40:58 AM PST by StarFan
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To: cyncooper
>>>A flight from Paris to LAX would over fly ALL of the US. <<<

Not if they were direct Paris-LA flights. They would fly a "great circle route" that would have them (and I'm SWAS'ing* here) fly over southern Greenland, Northern Canada, dropping south to enter the US somewhere in Montana and on down to LA.

Scientific Wild Ass Guess

265 posted on 12/24/2003 11:41:16 AM PST by HardStarboard (Dump Wesley Clark.....he worries me as much as Hillary!)
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To: Fenris6
"Heh. At least he's aggressive. That's a start. :)"

LOL

266 posted on 12/24/2003 11:41:18 AM PST by Sunsong (Free Republic is a conservative, American site -- try to keep that in mind...)
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To: Ex-Dem
I started to push abuse on him but thought we were all doing a good job!
267 posted on 12/24/2003 11:41:23 AM PST by MEG33 (We Got Him!)
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To: RandallFlagg
How did you know it was a her?
268 posted on 12/24/2003 11:41:46 AM PST by Ex-Dem (Brutality : Faith :: SH : GWB)
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To: cyncooper
Perhaps these flights were housed in a hangar that is a security concern, and there is not enough time to re-inspect the planes (rather than a problem with a passenger or crew member)
269 posted on 12/24/2003 11:41:54 AM PST by Piranha
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To: tort_feasor
that'swhat I was thinking. By the time a flight from France got to the US they would not have all that much fuel to blow something up with.

My last flight from London to Dallas came over Newfoundland. I think we entered US airspace over Finger Lakes NY.
270 posted on 12/24/2003 11:41:54 AM PST by squarebarb (post number 190, just trying to get my numbers up)
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To: aquaculture
Don't tell me I'm a troll -- I'm the most conservative guy in the room*.

* Translation = I'm a left wing troll.

271 posted on 12/24/2003 11:42:04 AM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: aquaculture
Not what you said before, pal...you specifically wished for a terrorist attack on France. Sick stuff.

Lighten up, aquaculture! I "specifically" said that it would be the only thing that wakes them up, which is true. Sad, but true. And it's probably going to happen.

What have the French done to support a war on terrorism, except condemn it?

I don't wish a terrorist attack on anybody. They either take it to the terrorists, or the terrorists will take it to them, it's really that simple.

Merry Christmas.

272 posted on 12/24/2003 11:42:36 AM PST by New Horizon
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To: KSCITYBOY
"I work for a French owned company. I have met one decent Frenchman - The rest are arrogant pricks. Still I'm sure there are some decent French."

Thanks for bringing in some facts here!

273 posted on 12/24/2003 11:42:58 AM PST by Sunsong (Free Republic is a conservative, American site -- try to keep that in mind...)
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To: fourhorsemen
4:05 PM PST is 7:05 EST, NOT "1:05" -- so, wouldn't be schedule to land yet.
274 posted on 12/24/2003 11:43:10 AM PST by BohDaThone
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To: CWOJackson
Wasn't Lafayette -- who was our main help from France -- a pirate who often went back to France, referring to himself as an American -- not a Frenchman. (I could find the history quote if needed)
275 posted on 12/24/2003 11:43:26 AM PST by HungarianGypsy
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To: Steve_Seattle
No the fact that we requested the flights from Paris to be cancelled showed again that we can't trust the frogs in the war on terrorism to do their job in Paris and France.
276 posted on 12/24/2003 11:43:26 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Kaddaffi, "I will do whatever the Americans want because I saw what happened in Iraq. ")
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To: Ex-Dem
FOX NEWS ALERT!

"MAD COW SUSPECTED TO BE FRENCH"
277 posted on 12/24/2003 11:43:49 AM PST by got_moab? (W went to Iraq on turkey day looking for a hot meal, Reed went to Afghanistan in search of a hot man)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Yeah...why would they blow the whistle on themselves?
I think they are planting decoy threats.
278 posted on 12/24/2003 11:44:25 AM PST by sonserae
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To: squarebarb
The only contra indication is no Air CAP flights from near my location. Most times there is Orange Alert the planes are turning and burning.
279 posted on 12/24/2003 11:44:46 AM PST by tort_feasor
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To: BlueLancer
Whoever it is, is gone now. Check the account status.
280 posted on 12/24/2003 11:45:01 AM PST by FreedomPoster (this space intentionally blank)
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