AU Students Express Disdain for France’s Failure to Honor its NATO Commitment - After Action Report

13 February 2003 | Jimmy Valentine's brother

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

See you should have come out to play. Your wit was missed.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

TELL THE AU STUDENTS TO PICK A LATER TIME NEXT TIME, we all have jobs.

What we have here is a conflict. We have jobs, they have studies. It was their show and they did great. I got them to do the "We gave peace a chance , we got 9-1-1."

[Dengar01]

My friend is studying at AU this semester. Hope they took it to the froggies good.

[montag813]

As a former leader of the AU College Republicans, they have made me very proud with this action. We did roughly the same thing back in 1986 (showing my age) in front of the French Embassy back when the bastards wouldn't let our F-111's over their territory on the way to Libya. We should have retaliated economically then, and I hope we will do so now.

[potlatch]

BUMP!!

[tgslTakoma]

Pictures are up on Angelwood's Webshots account. I will now start posting links to them...

[RodgerD]

JVB is being generous in giving me credit for attending. I basically jumped out of the car and said hi to him, Anglewood and tgslTakoma for all of 4 minutes. They looked good and I was impressed also by the spirtited AU young pubbies. The little anti-war/America group looked, as usual, as if they'd spent the night in a dumpster.

[tgslTakoma]

Round one of photo links:

I could hear the chants from up on the hill

AU and UMD College Republicans chanting "Shame!" as French Embassy personnel exit the compound.

"Stop the Axis of Weasels!" "Surrendered Already? We're not surprised."

College Republicans and Freepers line across from the embassy

Pro-Saddam French Club

Veto This!

Appeasement kills!

Angelwood waves the French flag ;-)

Stop Saddam!

First Iraq - the France

1918 & 1944 - You're welcome

Peace through strength!

[tgslTakoma]

More pics:

Saddam - The time is now.

Viva la Iraq?

It's time to smacky that Iraqi !

We tried this with Hitler.

Guess which one is the conservative.

Reservoir Rd is a busy street, especially during rush hour!

Keep the faith, FReepers. The youth of America are NOT all a lost cause!

Chirac is a cheese-eating surrender monkey!

French Resistance (picture of frog) "We give up!"

Red Riding Hood (France) and The Big Bad Wolf (Iraq)

American Flags flying high!

God Bless all these kids. Our leaders of tomorrow.

Also, please excuse my typos...

[tgslTakoma]

More pics:

Save Turkey - not Iraq!

Count the pro-Saddamites - unlucky thirteen by my count.

Beware conservatives with bullhorns!

The young man with the bullhorn told French jokes, to the delight of the protesters and passersby.

She's responding to the honks of support from passing cars.

Close-up of sign on pro-Saddamite side.

Surrender monkey in a tree.

News guy showed up for some quick filming.

The CRs sang "God Bless America"...

crowd shot

Lots of positive response from passing cars Not to worry, though. A few meanspiritedarrogantcondescendingliberals flipped us off, too. And as JVb said with a laugh, "It's been a successful FReep, we've been flipped off!"

France surrenders - again!

Another quick getaway from the embassy.

A final note about the photos... I tried several times to capture the complete message on one sign, and kept missing it. It read, "France - The Maginot Line in the War on Terror."

[GUish]

Great pictures (I'm even in one, holding the "Stop the Axis of Weasels" sign...yessss!!) The protest was a blast, and I'll be putting up an after-action report on my blog if anyone's interested. I had to leave before things got really interesting, apparently, but it was heartening to finally see conservatives in the majority at a protest rather than getting lost in a sea of hippies

Just to nit-pick, don't forget that the Georgetown CR's were out doing our part as well!

[ClancyJ]

Thanks so much for the great pictures and for all your ongoing effort.

I agree - it warms my heart to see that some young college students are smart enough to see through all the propaganda the left promotes. The ARE our future and they make me proud.

[tgslTakoma]

Welcome to FR! Be sure to post a link to your after-action report on this thread, GUish; and please accept my apologies for not crediting GU CRs for being there, too. :-)

Hey DC Chapter folks! Say hello to a new FReeper!

[FreeTheHostages]

Hey, Welcome! Don't forget to check on this new post about the Nightline's coverage of the French. Turns out the Hobbit (that's my nickname for Ted Koppel) just loves the French.

[FreeTheHostages]

You're the best honey! Sounds like those College Republicans are good patriots, too.

[L_Von_Mises]

Looks like you all had a great time and let the "cheese eating surrender monkeys" know what America thinks.

Those College Republicans are great and their signs were hilarious.

I like the pic of the College Republican and the French Club co-appeaser. The contrast is priceless.

[FreeTheHostages]

aw, thanks, I was bummed I couldn't make this one. I really appreciate the photos, Tgsl.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

What's the latest on Iraq's al-Qaeda (or is it al-Hater) connections.

[tgslTakoma]

Check out GUish's blogspot. It looks like he's got a sense of humor that will fit right in with the rest of the DC Chapter.

[tgslTakoma]

From GUish's blog, where he posted the protest announcement and added his comment: "Good times will be had by all. A note to attending students: embassy workers attempting to surrender are to be reminded that, despite long-standing French custom, capitulation usually takes place after a war breaks out. If workers are insistent, they are to be directed to the German Embassy farther down the road, where personnel should be well accustomed to dealing with Frenchmen waving white flags."

ROTFLOL!