FRANCE: Royal stumbles in row over attack on Israel as 'Nazi'

The Times ^ | December 4, 2006 | Adam Sage

[Bonaparte]

I can't disagree with a thing you've said.

Notwithstanding that, Hillary has now won the NY Senate seat twice in a row and handily. No squeakers. Her bizarre appearance with Suha may have lost her some NY Jewish votes, but it failed to stop her. If she tries running for president, that will be her Waterloo. Americans do not like her.

[keats5]

"Ms Royal went on to claim that she had not meant to attack Americans in general for insanity but only the Bush Administration over the war in Iraq."

This line of reasoning always puzzles me. Doesn't she realize "Americans in general" elected Bush?

[GoLightly]

This line of reasoning always puzzles me. Doesn't she realize "Americans in general" elected Bush?

LOL I know, but I think she must figure that those of us who were "stupid" enough to vote for him won't have the capability to put it all together like that. It's like she's patting us on our little heads with a soft platitude, so we'll go play while the grown ups can talk about important worldly things.

[lndrvr1972]

This is like comparing apples to fish, I dont see the Isralies opening death camps for Muslims.

[Wilhelm Tell]

This gaffe not only indicates she's loony left, it also indicates she isn't very bright.

I have observed that the two characteristics go together quite well.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Kissing Suha Arafat and calling people f*ing Jew bastards hasn't hurt her one bit either.

I am sure such things help her immensely among the moonbat left, although I have heard moonbats complain that she is not radical enough. Why, to them, Hillary is some sort of a "moderate." That is scary.

[pbear8]

This gaffe not only indicates she's loony left, it also indicates she isn't very bright.

Sounds like she'd get along with Nancy Pelosi quite well.

PBear

[radiohead]

Every time I think I might be going a little hard on the French...

LOL. I interact w/foreign nationals quite a bit. A few years back one of them told me I wasn't being 'cosmopolitan' enough w/my hatred of the French. I don't give a rat's rear end about the French, their food, their culture, their inability to stand up for what's right, or for their own freakin' government in the face of Dhimmitude. Screw 'em.

[sheik yerbouty]

And why habven't the French surrendered?

[sageb1]

"She won because of unusual support from White Catholics."

Not this white Catholic.

[PAR35]

Why don't the people of France who lived during the Nazi occupation, you know, the ones ... WE LIBERATED! ... come out and call this woman an idiot?

Because a lot of them didn't want to be 'liberated'.

Remember, French troops were shooting at American soldiers long before the Germans during World War II.

[perfect stranger]

on this ping list please

[perfect stranger]

Remember, French troops were shooting at American soldiers long before the Germans during World War II.

I had no idea, but it doesn't suprise me. Can you give a link?

[philetus]

Nothing the French do surprises me.

[MarkL]

Dear Jews in France,

GET OUT NOW!!!!!

An American Jew

[justiceseeker93]

Recall Hillary Clinton's embrace of Suha Arafat, right after Suha made the "blood libel" accusations against the Israeli Jews.

Her Royal Thighness, a. k. a. The Witch, had almost the exact same explanation for her "gaffe": She claimed she didn't understand the Arabic spoken, though Suha's speech was being translated instantaneously into English. Perhaps Madame Royal recalled the HRC-Suha hug and decided to use the very same lame excuse.

[Nachum]

France = Jew haters

[justiceseeker93]

...French troops were shooting at American soldiers long before the Germans during World War II.

I don't particularly care for the French, but your history is inaccurate.

There was some minor combat between Vichy French and the Allies in Nazi-occupied Tunisia, but the Allies were already engaged against the Axis the moment they entered North Africa.

At the same time, there were French militias in occupied France, some working with the Nazis and some with the Allies, but that was before D-Day and the arrival of American soldiers in France.

"French troops were shooting" at Germans in as early as 1940 in a futile effort to save their homeland from occupation. That was a year and a half before Pearl Harbor and the American entry into the war.

[PAR35]

Operation Torch, November, 1942. US forces landed north and south of Casablanca, meeting heavy resistance from the French. The resistance at Algiers and Oran was closer to 'token' in nature. US Army casualties 526 killed, 837 wounded, and 41 missing in 2 days in a force roughly the size of the one in Iraq.

The first large scale land battle with the Germans was the American defeat at Kasserine Pass, February, 1943.

Link to thread about Torch: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/901126/posts

Link to thread about Kasserine:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/843155/posts

Of course, the naval battles with the Germans started prior to Pearl Harbor.

[PAR35]

There was some minor combat between Vichy French and the Allies in Nazi-occupied Tunisia,

Well, it was Morocco, not Tunisa, and the Allied force was around 125,000, but if you want to consider the death of over 500 Americans in a couple of days of combat 'minor', then I guess you are right, my history is inaccurate, and you are the expert.

The surrender in Tunisa was in May, 1943, and Tunisia involved German and Italian forces, not French.