[nutmeg]

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[coloradan]

We saved them in WW I and WW II, and took over for them in Indochina. If war should spill into their borders this time I sincerely hope not one drop of American blood is shed in their name.

[nutmeg]

..."Cheese-eating surrender monkeys" - a phrase coined by Bart Simpson...

Wasn't this phrase coined by Groundskeeper Willie?

[tjg]

Q. How do you know when France is at war?

A. Everybody in Paris is walking around with their hands up in the air.

[piasa]

Make that : "l'hache de ermines"

[crusher999]

I posted this in a previous article about "French Intellectuals" (an oxymoron methinks). With seething disdain for these A-holes...I repost my thoughts.

Let’s face it folks….the last time the French had any significance on the world stage, battleships were made from wood, and the muzzle loaded musket was the “latest technology”.

But let’s not judge our Brie-eating/wine-drinking scrawny pi$$-ant brothers and sisters too harshly…..

Well, alright…lets do.

(And by the way…did you know that brie is known as the “queen of cheeses”….which says to me that the frogs are so completely prissified, that they don’t have the stones to make the “KING of ANYTHING”)

The French are a nation of Cliff & Cliffette Claven’s.

Little meaningless people, who know damn well that they are entirely without importance, but like Cliff, will condescendingly take us aside and point out the error of our ways, all the while proving beyond a shadow of a doubt just how trivial they really are.

Well, if I lived in a country where I could throw a rock in any direction and hit an American Cemetery (11 in all) where over 60,000 U.S. “Liberators” have been laid to their final rest, who died bailing my sorry (albeit petite) a$$ out of, not one, but two World Wars, then I would be just as desperate to prove (to myself, if nobody else) my relevance.

So, keep on yakin’ Pierre…

Whew, that felt good!

Au Revior

[SFConservative]

[Kip Lange]

French to Blair:

"How you English say: I one more time, mac, unclog my nose in your direction, sons of a window-dresser! So, you think you could out-clever us French folk with your silly knees-bent running about advancing behaviour? I wave my private parts at your aunties, you cheesy lot of second-handed electric donkey-bottom biters!"

We've been taking this kind of abuse from *them* for years. It's high time they got a taste of their own medicine.

[Fenris6]

France's honor died in the trenches of WWI.

The Czechs should warn the Turks on the danger of having France as an ally -- French diplomats yawning with fatigue as they betrayed the only other European power capable of stopping the Nazi's.

I say we cut them loose from NATO.

[Boot Hill]

(CLICK WILLIE)

--Boot Hill

[The Great Satan]

The "petulant prima donna of realpolitik" is leading the "axis of weasels", in "a chorus of cowards". It is an unholy alliance of "wimps" and ingrates which includes one country that is little more than a "mini-me minion", another that is in league with Cuba and Libya, with a bunch of "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" at the helm.

In a nutshell.

[MissAmericanPie]

France and Germany have lived far too long under the protective wings of the United States, which has allowed them to sink into welfare states. Throw them to the wolves. The only good thing that has come from this are the blinders that came off of every American as to the value of their being our "allies". We have no national interests there, let the radical Islamics have them.

They will come screaming for help of course, and we should turn our faces away from enemies who demanded that America attack a proven ally in WW2, Serbia, for the benefit of the lousy peace of old europe, in support of radical Al Queda Islamics raining terror in the Balkins. They scream foul every time we talk of defending ourselves. Throw them to the Islamic wolves they are so fond of. If 9-11 had happened in Paris, euro-trash hysteria would be on going.

[BunnySlippers]

Good article. Bump.

[Overtaxed]

spare a thought for the French translators, who have struggled for words to convey the full force of the venom. "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys" -

Maybe this will help:

[TomSmedley]

Primates capitulards et toujours en quête de fromages!

[CounterCounterCulture]

Going to war without the French is like going hunting without an accordion

[Mr. Jeeves]

"...capitulards..."

I really like this word, for some reason! It describes Chirac and Schroeder just perfectly.

I agree, though, that the attacks on France and Germany as whole nations are overblown. The Schroeder and Chirac governments may be hitting Clintonian levels of disgracefulness in their attempts to protect their investments in Iraq, but that is no reason to slander the German and French people. Free Republic remains the Internet's largest manufacturer of Sweeping Generalizations.

[537 Votes]

European-led resistance to America's war plans in Iraq was portrayed not as a diplomatic position to be negotiated as a genetic weakness in the European mindset which makes them reluctant to fight wars and incapable of winning them.

Given Europe's bloody history, I don't think any American thinks of them as reluctant to fight wars. 'Incapable of winning them,' on the other hand, does pretty much describe France and Germany.

[CharlesThe Hammer]

The fact is that American anger over this Franco-German betrayal stems from a real cheap shot to the soul. The vitriol and shouting just covers up the pain of having disloyal friends that threw us over at the first sign of a better deal. The flags fling over Utah and Omaha beaches at the cemetery, the endless rows of white crosses at the Meuse, the Ardennes, the Somme, the Argonne, Lorraine, Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, Brittany, St. Mihiel,the Rhone,Suresnes,Oise-Aisne,Bellicourt, Chaumont, Montfaucon, Montsec, Brest, and the great bronze plaques to the thousands of unknowns make it really personal for me. D-Day was a "unilateral" act by the allies.