Congressmen: France and Germany 'Beneath Contempt'

NewsMax.com ^ | Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2003

[nickcarraway]

Saying that phony "allies" have betrayed the United States, lawmakers are outraged that France, Germany and Belgium would let genocidal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein attack Turkey.

The House International Relations Committee's top Democrat, Rep. Tom Lantos of California, said Tuesday he was "particularly disgusted by the blind intransigence and utter ingratitude" of Paris, Berlin and Brussels.

"If it were not for the heroic efforts of America's military, France, Germany and Belgium today would be Soviet socialist republics," Lantos noted. "The failure of these three states to honor their commitments is beneath contempt."

The committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., said, "America has fought distant wars to defend whole continents from a succession of aggressors, but the beneficiaries of the safety we have ensured often devote their energies to impeding our efforts to help others."

Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that if the United States is forced to bypass the alliance, "NATO will quickly atrophy."

Sen. John Warner, R-Va., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Congress could consider reducing financial support for NATO.

Sure, the greedy "Axis of Weasel" wants to prop up Saddam because of the billions invested in his abusive regime, but the New York Post's Steve Dunleavy today suggested an economic response: a boycott of all things French and German.

"Let's see how fast Jacques Chirac, the president of the whine and cheese club, and Gerhard Schroeder, the German leader whose people enjoy a united Berlin thanks to President Ronald Reagan, react to that one," Dunleavy wrote.

[Guillermo]

Lantos said this?

is this a joke?

[dfwgator]

For once, I agree with Lantos with something. Of course I would have been shocked if a holocaust survivor could possible come to any other conclusion.

[Desdemona]

The House International Relations Committee's top Democrat, Rep. Tom Lantos of California, said Tuesday he was "particularly disgusted by the blind intransigence and utter ingratitude" of Paris, Berlin and Brussels.

BUMP

[IncPen]

Speechless

Flying pigs ping

[BunnySlippers]

I didn't know Lantos had it in him. Way to GO!!!

[tomahawk]

France is an enemy state. Germany is on the verge of becoming one, if Herr Shroeder stays in power with the anti-U.S. SPD-Grunen alliance in charge.

[and the horse you rode in on]

Lantos said this?
is this a joke?

Tom Lantos (D-Hungary) is standing with his original country and with the US against Saddam.

The Dems have to hate it, Ranking Menber of the House International Relations Comittee turns on Tiny Tommy

[Catspaw]

I'm not surprised, either. Lantos knows how evil these countries were--and what they've become now.

[tomahawk]

France and Germany are standing behind the modern-day Hitler, Saddam Hussein. They are his protectors. They will bear the consequences for this act of perfidy.

[Guillermo]

I posted this article on DU...will be interesting to see the replies...

[OldFriend]

Lantos could be saying the exact same thing about his fellow demonrats.

[thinktwice]

Tom Lantos -- hypocrite, or ally?

[dfwgator]

FWIW Hungary was a Nazi ally in WWII. Lantos is Jewish.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Lantos aka Count Dracula is not beneath contempt he works hard for it. Like Clinton he may be beneath reproach , but not contempt.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That was my first reaction, too. Lantos isn't usually counted amongst the straight talkers of the House.
I thought this was lifted from The Onion...

[JennysCool]

After all this is over, I'm in favor of the U.S. embarking on the grandest experiment in isolationism in the history of the world.

[Capt. Tom]

An American by choice, Tom Lantos was born in Budapest, Hungary, on February 1, 1928. He was 16 years old when Nazi Germany occupied his native country. As a teenager, he was a member of the anti-Nazi underground and later of the anti-Communist student movement

[PhiKapMom]

Sen. John Warner, R-Va., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Congress could consider reducing financial support for NATO. (from article)

Mud --

Looks like he is stepping up to the plate on this one!

PKM

[AxelPaulsenJr]

It would appear that this time around the frogs and krauts have figured out a way to surrender to each other.