[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, February 12, 2003

Quote of the Day by Mad_Tom_Rackham

[patj]

Wow! all those phone calls. They must feel under siege. Maybe they should surrender.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

bump

[fightinJAG]

Has someone posted an email link to the French and German embassies?

[ewing]

Was this a freep effort? If not, it should be!

[VeniVidiVici]

I regret to say that my trip to Germany this winter will be cancelled in favor of a trip to Scotland.

I lived in Berlin for 4 years and wanted to go back to see the changes. Now, since I wanted to visit my ancestral homeland at sometime anyhow, that's what I'll do instead.

And I own two VWs with plans on purchasing a third this spring. With one made in Germany and the other in Mexico, I think I'll do well to look at other cars at that time.

[John O]

"The French attitude is self-defeating," says Gary Schmitt of the Project for a New American Century

Well DUH!

[CWOJackson]

People better stop knocking the French, it's making Buchanan angry:

"How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris? Nobody knows – because it's never been done yet."

That joke was making the rounds at a political conference in Washington this weekend. It is a cruel and unjust jest. As Margaret Macmillan writes, in Paris 1919, 1.3 million Frenchmen – one out of every four between 18 and 30 – died in the Great War (1914-1918), and twice as many were wounded fighting successfully to defend Paris.

The French must have bought some of his books.

[#1CTYankee]

Bump!

[mc5cents]

Some reasons why France sucks.

[semaj]

..."There is a consensus that whatever the U.S. has done wrong, it does not justify the way the French and the Germans are playing this."

Jim Steinberg is an ass.

[morph]

Just bought this shirt:
http://www.thoseshirts.com/french.html
I think it says it all

[dfwgator]

I hate rap. That having been said, I hate censorship even more.

[Billthedrill]

Imagine what it would be like if Bush had decided to pull a Shroeder and actually inflame sentiments instead of contenting himself with a rather pedestrian "disappointed." I'm more and more convinced that doctrinaire anti-Americanism is so much the norm there and has gone so unremarked for so long, that people are now shocked at the mildest forms of disapproval. And these have been mild. One does not read, for example, of French restaurants having their windows smashed as happened to that Paris McDonald's. This little dispute is just warming up, and the French had better strap in.