Stars and strife over US policy at Paris show (VOMITING TILL YOU DIE ALERT)

The Times ^ | February 12, 2003 | Charles Bremner and Marie Tourres

[MadIvan]

Just another insight into the French "mind". Glad we're not them.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[dfwgator]

They didn't seem to mind when we were bombing "puny" Yugoslavia.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Ivory Coast isn't exactly a military heavyweight, either.

[uncbuck]

"...Lafayette’s army in the War of Independence..."

Um, that was Washington's American Army. They might need to take a closer look at there history books. OR, the frog revisionist historians have really changed it, just like they think they liberated France in 1944, not Britain and America.

[Rodney King]

“Nobody has forgotten the debt of blood that we have towards them and the fact that we fought in the same camp, on the side of freedom, during the whole Cold War.”

What exactly did they do during the Cold War besides dropping out of the Nato military structure in the late '60's, forcing us to spend a fortune relocating our bases?

That's just like the French to take credit for something that they had little to do with. I'll bet that after we kick Saddam's rear end they'll claim that they were in on that, too.

[Shermy]

We will stand up together against the Americans who are only fighting for oil. We are not fools

Ivan, what strikes me is how little these French and German interviewees in various articles seem wholly unaware of their own countries pecuniary and craven political interests behind the positions. Maybe its just an example of American media mischief selecting reflexive contrarian positions.

[dfwgator]

Neither was Rwanda, but that didn't stop their cronies, the Hutus from slaughtering 1 million Tutsis.

[nothingnew]

As the french would say..."OUI...OUI!"...or as I would say..."WEE WEE"...in thier pants as they launch a Pythonic Cow into thier silk underwear...JMHO....grin

FMCDH

[Billthedrill]

They are determined to deploy their enormous armada against puny Iraqi resistance like a heavyweight going up against a child.

Maybe Francois would be happier if we let the Iraqis duke it out with somebody more their size - when he puts on a pack and picks up a rifle and volunteers to join the French army in this effort, I'll be more impressed. Until then this budding Napoleon might be reminded that the most humane war is one that is over with quicky and causes the fewest casualties on BOTH sides. Austerlitz and Borodino were evenly-matched, bloody, and French. The Gulf War was none of these.

[tet68]

the row with Washington was bad for France’s place in the world.

France has a place in the world?
Not any more.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Rather unsporting of them, I must say.

[dfwgator]

Especially when their leader at the time, Francois Mitterrand stated, "In a country like Rwanda, a genocide is not important."

[Savage Beast]

Many Europeans, notably the French, were thrilled with the pseudo-sophisticated and pseudo-aristocratic Kennedy and with the manipulative, careless and uncaring, utterly immoral, sociopathic Cliton, so impressed are they with appearances.

However they a can not recognize The Hero, George Bush, The Great Leader that the world desperately needs, when he appears before them, so entrapped are they in the quagmire of decadence and so blinded are they by its confusion.

[texasbluebell]

There were also signs of the unease that is being felt increasingly over the consequences for France of being banished from American favour after an Iraqi war. “It’s fine to oppose Bush, but we’d better not need the Americans to help us again for a while,” Beatrice Lenoir, 25, a secretary, said.

Oh, no, not just for a while. How about never again. And don't you forget it, Mlle. Lenoir.

[Darheel]

They may have lost the war, but the Nazis won in the end. We're dealing with two Socialist countries with Socialist leaders. Our leaders have foolishly trusted these countries when they really don't deserve it, and this is what we get. I think it's very simple.

[texasbluebell]

"...We are right and other countries are joining us now. We will stand up together against the Americans who are only fighting for oil. We are not fools.”

Ah, ze Fwench. Zey are so dwoll.

[Fraulein]

We will stand up together against the Americans who are only fighting for oil.

Interesting comment coming from an automobile collector.

[this_ol_patriot]

Yes, especially since it's their oil they percieve we are going after. They may think they are sophisticated and deep but these past months have shown us that they are shallow little sniviling children who can't understand a moral undertaking without assuming that we must have their shallow interests too.