One serious observation: Note that Biden and Leahy were over there meeting (strategizing, more like it) with Chirac prior to the Condi/Bush visits. I seriously believe Biden (and maybe Leahy) has become a traitor to this country. I believe he's plotting with our enemies for Rat political gains (they think voters will be impressed that the world likes them better--Ha!)
Could Chirac be any more pompous, ego-inflated, offensive or infuriating? Well, perhaps if he were Monsieur de Villepin! LOL!
I think Condi is taking her leather whip to beat the french girlie men into submission.
Chirac has actually been quoted calling Saddam a close and personal friend.
The french poodle still yapping away and whining for a spot on the porch with the big dog.
Also- in France some corrupt politians have proposed making Chirac a Senator for life. In France Senators are exempt from trials. There has been some outcry, some want Chirac brought to trial
Where did that come from? It was nothing but "sanctions were working" before. We must have really scared the socks off that freak.
Let's see, we're dealing with crazy infidel-hating Mullahs, who haven't yet joined the EU post-historical multilateral way of doing things, and we want to solve things diplomatically, and if that fails, we're ruling out either sanctions or force in the last resort -- sounds like a real winner of a strategy to me!
Chirac stated that sanctions didn't work in Iraq. Hell no not when the FROGS were selling Saddam everything he wanted behind everyones back and taking a big cut out of the FFO program. If I was Bush or Condi when you shake his hand make sure you count your fingers after.
"...he (Chirac) said he would love to have some private time with Mr. Bush, without any aides present..."
Mr. Bush is smart enough and possesses enough integrity to keep any "Lewinski" incidents from marring HIS Presidency.
Mr. Barnier wants to visit the United States every three months? Sounds like a welcome wagon should be there to greet the back stabbing frog.
"They hold fast to a belief that Mr. Bush and his team still have alot to learn from France about running the world."
Very telling statement. Bush is not looking to run the world....but France is.
I will confess it is a complete and total mystery to me where this belief comes from. That isn't to sneer. I simply cannot fathom this blind, utter faith in some mystic French diplomatic revelation that is seemingly so absent a shred of real-world evidence.
What we got from the multipolar Great Powers geopolitical alignment was colonial exploitation, arms races, brinksmanship, World War One, and the fall of its major participants in the forms of the Romanov dynasty, the Hohenzollern dynasty, the Habsburg Empire, and the Ottoman Empire. I am a bit at a loss as to why this is considered preferable to the current unipolar configuration. Are we not killing enough people? Is that the problem?
o·le·ag·i·nous ( P ) Pronunciation Key (l-j-ns)
adj.
Of or relating to oil.
Falsely or smugly earnest; unctuous: oleaginous flattery. See Synonyms at unctuous.
Describes Monsieur de Villepin .
Sabotoging our diplomatic efforts seems to be the dems strong suit.
Chirac is so...French.
Well, isn't that special, Frenchy. We haven't forgiven you. Get out the cheese and put up the white flag.
a handwritten "Cher George" letter
Mr. Chirac is helped in his reality offensive by Mr. Barnier.
"I want to get to know Condi Rice, to establish a personal relationship with her," said Mr. Barnier
But even as Mr. Chirac and his ministers adjust to the reality of a second Bush term, they hold fast to a belief that Mr. Bush and his team still have a lot to learn from France about running the world.
You can't make this stuff up.
Would "Bad Rug" or "Leaky" sell out the country for partisan political gain?
Not unless there was a little something in it for them, too...
What he doesn't realize is that those poles are in Washington D.C., New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, Cincinnati...
...but not Paris!
More delusion from the French.
They actually see themselves as one of the "poles of power" in their self described "multi-polar" world.
And if events in this dangerous world call for a projection of force, what will the French do??
Send a shipload of cruissants and cream cheese to appease their foes??
What a bunch of egotistical noodnicks the French still are.
Struggle no more, France. Just cave in. Surrender with snideness. Let that familiar feeling return with quiet abandon. You know you're not powerful. No one will blame you for slipping home, popping the cork to let it breathe by dinnertime. You can deal with Bush another four years - drunk.