Man Flushes French Wine Over Iraq Dispute

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A restaurant owner angered by France's lack of support for the United States' position on Iraq staged his own protest by pouring nearly $1,000 worth of French wine and champagne down the toilet.

Anthony Tola also removed all French wines from the menu of his Old Bay Restaurant this week, replacing them with vintages from California, Oregon and Australia, and returned 48 bottles of French wine to his suppliers.

"It was a statement," Tola told the Home News Tribune of East Brunswick for Friday's editions. "If people feel what I'm doing is wrong or overboard, they can make their own statements."

French officials have voiced opposition for weeks to the U.S. buildup of armed forces in the Persian Gulf and have said they would oppose any United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing force against Iraq.

Tola said he was not "someone who wants war, but feels war is sometimes necessary to protect our security. I think that's absolutely the situation here."

Viva La France - French Military History in a Nutshell (Including *WAR ON TERRORISM*)Chirac Is A Worm!

How history will tell the story:

A. The U.N. sent inspectors into Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction - the same WMD Saddamn said he did not have. Forming new alliances, France, Germany, and Belgium, continually sought prolonged inspection times in their attempts to restrain the U.S. and Britian from attacking Saddam. The U.N. Council repeatedly ruled in thir favor.

B. Saddamn, while insisting (and convincing France, Germany, and Belgium) he had no WMD, at the same time threatened the U.S. and Britian to destroy them (WITH THE SAME WMD HE CLAIMED NOT TO HAVE) if they attacked Iraq.

C. The United States and Britian agreed that Saddamn had not complied with U.N. resolution 1440, had WMD, then attacked and removed Saddamn from power to prevent him (or other terrorists) from using them.

D. After the U.S. and Britian attacked Iraq, vast stores of WMD, chemical, biological, and yes - even some nuclear - were uncovered by the prevailing U.S. and British forces.

E. Saddamn and his two sons were tried before a U.N. tribunal and unaimously found to be enemies of minkind perptetuating mass murders on their own people of magnitudes and ferociouceness not seen since Adolph Hitler's actions created the word "genocide." They were summarily hung for their crimes against humanity. Regrettably the knots where incorrectly tied and the distance of the drop was not sufficient to break their necks. They swung and kicked for almost thirty minutes before strangling to their infamous historical deaths.

F. The Democrats in the United States had their worst election returns in the 2004 elections in that party's history.

G. George W. Bush was elected president for a second term in 2004 by the largest landslide in U.S. history.

H. Ditto for Tony Blair.

I. Hillary Clinton was defeated for his (grin) bid for reelection in New York State.

J. Thanks to the "footdragging" tactics of France and Germany througout the entire world crisis, the United Nations was made to be a laughing stock of historical proportions and was deemed irrelevent and impotent and consequently vaporized into nothingness as did it's predecessor - The League of Nations.

Viva La France - French Military History in a Nutshell (Including *WAR ON TERRORISM*)

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