Will you remember how those boys became men, how they fought against a foe that never attacked us?  Will you remember that they saw a threat, saw evil, travelled to far away distant lands, and confronted it wherever they found it-Africa, Sicily, Italy, the skies over Europe, the depths of the Atlantic, the churning seas off the Kola Peninsula, France, Luxembourg…anywhere they saw people who needed someone to fight for them.

Will you remember?
 

French are protesting FOR freedom and AGAINST dictators!!

I doubt many of these groups would ever risk life and limb for Tibetian Liberation, but they are making a statement. It is a start… A small start. If it is effective is another issue.

Officials put out Olympic torch 3 times

PARIS - Security officials extinguished the Olympic torch three times Monday as protests against China’s human rights record turned a relay through Paris into a chaotic series of stops and starts.

Despite massive security, at least two activists got within almost an arm’s length of the flame before they were grabbed by police. Officers tackled many protesters and carried off some of them. A protester threw water at the torch but failed to extinguish it and was also taken away.
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What a change in France.  Electing Sarkozy is turning out to be one of the best things the French have done in quite sometime.  Now he is standing up to Syria:

France is to suspend diplomatic contacts with Syria, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced.

Links will be restored only when France has proof that Syria is not blocking progress towards installing a consensus president in Lebanon, Mr Sarkozy said.

Lebanon has been without a president since November, as rival pro- and anti- Syrian factions argue over who should fill the post.

“I ask Syria to… work to create agreement,” said Mr Sarkozy.

France “will not make any more contacts with Syria… as long as there is no proof of Syria’s willingness to let Lebanon choose a consensus president,” he told reporters, during a visit to Egypt.

It appears there is a finally a real leader in Europe.  

Well at least that’s what Sarkozy’s opponents are saying!
So let’s celebrate!

HISTORIC VICTORY FOR FRENCH CONSERVATIVES!!!

53% for Sarkozy gives strong mandate to French Conservatives!

It’s time to pop the cork on some French champagne, dust off your holiday photos from Paris and sing La Marseillaise. (click here to get the U.S. Navy Band’s version)

Polling saw massive turnout all across France and it’s territories around the globe. And yet it was one of the nastiest elections with blatant fearmongering and threats of violence the preferred campaign tool of the defeated socialists.

Interestingly, women, including some liberal feminists, also rejected Royal the first female candidate for President of France.

Sarkozy promises to be a President to restore France and save it from the economic, moral and political decline that is clearly the legacy of his predecessors. He also promises to be a better ally to the United States and the issue of our transatlantic partnership became a key factor in the campaign.

The Socialist Segolene Royal, seizing on President Bush’s unpopularity in France, accused her rival in Sunday’s presidential runoff of "mimicking" the American leader by feigning concern for people who are suffering.

In an interview with the daily Le Parisien published Friday, Royal said Sarkozy has "the same neo-conservative ideology" as Bush.

In France, Running Against Bush
by John Nichols
The Nation (Yahoo News)
May 4, 2007

…But the conservative has distanced himself from retiring President Jacques Chirac’s policy of distancing the French from the Bush administration. Sarkozy, who served with Chirac and has the outgoing president’s endorsement, says he shares the current president’s opposition to the war in Iraq. But he also talks about wanting to "rebuild the transatlantic relationship" with the U.S., and protests that "profound, sincere and unfailing" French relations with the U.S. do not amount to submission.

Royal is not so sure.

Referring to a trip to Washington on which Sarkozy met with Bush and requested that they be photographed together, she says, "I shall not be the one to shake George Bush’s hand like nothing happened [in the sometimes bitter pre-war debate over Iraq], without a word on our tactical and strategic disagreements in fighting religious extremism and terrorism.

Specifically, Royal says, "I am not for a Europe that allies with the U.S. I have never been, and will never. apologize to President Bush for the position of France on the issue of refusing to send troops to Iraq."

Sarkozy denies making any apologies. He says that, under his leadership, France would be an independent player that would not be afraid to tell U.S. presidents when they are wrong.

But that has not stopped Royal’s backers from trying to chip away at Sarkozy’s popular appeal — most of which appears to be rooted in the appeal of his tough approach to domestic issues such as crime and immigration — by referring to him as "an American neo-conservative with a French passport." and producing a 9O-page review of Sarkozy’s links with U.S. right wingers that refers to the conservative candidate as a "French unit of Bush & Company."

Linking Sarkozy to Bush is smart politics for Royal and her backers, According to a recent poll for the Paris newspaper Le Monde, the American president has a six percent approval rating in France.

Well now, how did that work out for the Socialists? Since they attempted to make the election a referendum on President Bush, he also scored a victory in this election!

The demonisation of Sarkozy
The U.K. Times
May 1, 2007

…Pro-Royal campaigners have called him a “French Berlusconi”, a new Bonaparte and a “French George W. Bush”.

 His doctrines of radical economic reform and individual responsibility — never before aired by a senior French politician — have been welcomed by many as a revolution, but cast by opponents as divisive, cruel and unFrench.

“His is the kind of madness that has stoked a fair number of apprentice dictators in the past,”

“To vote against Nicolas Sarkozy is to avoid the danger of a France at war with itself, in conflict and in crisis, divided and torn apart,”

Sarkozy asks: “Why so much hate? Maybe it is because I say out loud what everyone thinks to themselves.”

Royal said a victory by the tough-talking Nicolas Sarkozy would lead to more violence in France’s troubled suburbs. She will use a critical television debate with her opponent tomorrow to contrast her “France at peace with itself”

Royal shrugged off her low numbers, noting that some voters were still undecided. "I am fighting to the finish to convince the French. We must … make the French understand the choice before them."

The French have made their choice. It was a resounding rejection of the failures that have seen France crippling herself over the past few decades. But the implication that a Conservative victory would lead to violence is most troubling. We’ve all seen the violence in France’s suburbs these past years which went mostly unchecked by previous governments. Is Royal’s message to her supporters a call to use violence when they cannot win at the ballot box?

Conservative Pro-American Tide Continuing to Sweep Western Governments

Sarkozy’s election is just the latest trend from the last few years which have seen increasingly pro-American conservatives elected to governments in Australia, Germany, Canada and Japan. All of the above have stressed the importance of a strong relationship with the United States.

And we’re constantly told how we’ve alienated our allies? I feel sorry for John "Francois" Kerry today. The French election result is as much a repudiation of the Democrats’ sour brand of international politics as it is a positive affirmation of President Bush.

SARKOZY’S VICTORY MESSAGE TO AMERICA: ‘YOU CAN COUNT ON FRANCE AS A FRIEND’…

Graphic via Wordsmith.

Ok, now this is funny:

PARIS, Oct 14 (AFP) - Prime minister Dominique de Villepin of France said claims that two former high-ranking diplomats exploited the corruption-riddled UN Iraqi oil for food programme should not be allowed to sully the reputation of French democracy.

Both men, including France’s former ambassador to the UN, have been placed under judicial investigation — the first stage toward possible charges — on suspicion of benefitting from Iraqi money.

“That there may have been conduct here and there that was more than reproachable, well, obviously that’s up to the justice (system) to say,” he told Europe 1 radio in an interview.

“What I want to say, having been responsible for French diplomacy, is that no one has the right to sully that diplomacy so easily.”

The oil-for-food programme, which ran from 1996 to 2003, was designed to offset the effects on ordinary people of international sanctions on Saddam Hussein’s regime, allowing him to sell oil in return for food and medicines.

But it was thoroughly corrupted by Baghdad, which granted oil vouchers to foreign personalities deemed to be well-disposed to the regime.

Earlier this week Jean-Bernard M?rim?e, 68, France’s ambassador on the UN security council from 1991 to 1995, was placed under judicial investigation by judge Philippe Courroye on suspicion of profiting from Iraq.

Last month Serge Boidevaix, 77, a former number two at the French foreign ministry, was placed under investigation on a similar count.

Both are accused of “influence-peddling” and “active corruption of foreign officials.”

Villepin, a former foreign minister, said the claims concerned “a period where the two ambassadors in question were no longer in office, they had retired, so they were activities conducted after the retirement age.”

“They need to explain what happened,” he added, “but I don’t think you can cast a stain on French diplomacy.”

Villepin was France’s foreign minister when the US-led war on Iraq, which Paris strongly opposed, broke out in 2003.

No one has the right to sully that reputation? Give me a f-ing break. He is talking about France as if they have ANY honor! Those two words put together are a oxymoron.

Just have to blog a bit about the ongoing French series at Mike’s America. It’s good for some laugh’s, especially when the cowards (oops, meant the French) take offense.

First we have the opening salvo from Mike:

Let Them Eat Cake!

Oh la la! This story has been around for a while, but we at Mike’s America have had our hands full fending off the communist surrender monkeys…

The French, and assorted America haters have their berets in a knot over this promotion for a new Subway sandwich:

In response to the criticism, Subway has withdrawn the ad, giving France the only victory that sorry bunch of frogs has ever known.

Indignant frogophiles are still not satisfied, threatening to boycott Subway. I say: Let ‘em eat cake! Or better yet, pass the snails!”

But then it gets better in the comments:

What a good example of the stupidity of some part of the american people.

Thanksfully, not everybody is like this.
Ju | Homepage | 10.11.05 - 7:04 am | #

Thanks “JU” or let’s call you Froggy.

You people should be ashamed of yourselves for your ungrateful behavior and your utter lack of support of democracy and freedom initiatives which benefit YOU as much as D-Day did.

Maybe we should just have told Hitler, who never attacked us, that we just want PEACE! We’re against war!

It’s none of our business if Hitler wanted to rape France! After all, who are we to judge?

And now, in the present day, Froggies like you want to come and insult Americans?

I hope you some spare time after you finish sewing that white flag to begin work on your Burka.

And on behalf of the rest of Americans that you call “stupid:” GO FUCK YOURSELF!
Mike’s America | Homepage | 10.11.05 - 11:26 am | #

So I should thank you for bombarding tousands of people in Normandie?

I should thank you for waiting 6 years until the III Reich was a threat for your commerce?

I should thank you for the huge investments (including some from W Bush grand father) in the III Reich?

I should thank you for the help provided to the german during the 30’s?

USA only attacked Hitler when he started being a threat to their monney.

USA only attacked Irak to get hold on the petrol and had no care of the threat it represented to anybody.

Irak was no threat and had no power as it has been proven.

Captain America, you should check your history…
marius | Homepage | 10.12.05 - 3:24 pm | #

Right Marius… Iraq was not threat as you froggies were taking millions in bribes from funds that were meant to provide women and children with medicine.

As for thanking us for saving your sorry butts… Maybe your German language skills are better than your English… or How’s your Russian?

As far as us taking Iraqs oil? I’m still paying about $3 per gallon for gas froggie…

If that’s stealing… someone owes me a refund.

Talk about someone who needs a history lesson… FROGGY!
Mike’s America | Homepage | 10.12.05 - 10:46 pm | #

Now the comments from JU are just plain ignorant. Does he even comprehend the amount of American lives lost saving his grandparents asses? I mean the French lasted two weeks against the Germans before they completely surrendered, not that the word surrender is alien to the French:

• Gallic Wars: Lost. In a war whose ending foreshadows the next 2000 years of French history, France is conquered by of all things, an Italian.
• Norse invasions, 841-911: After having their way with the French for 70 years, the Norse are bribed by a French King named Charles the Simple (really!) who gave them Normandy in return for peace. Normans proceed to become just about the only positive military bonus in France’s [favour] for next 500 years.
• Hundred Years War: Mostly lost, saved at last by female schizophrenic who inadvertently creates The First Rule of French Warfare; “France’s armies are victorious only when not led by a Frenchman.” Sainted.
• Italian Wars: Lost. France becomes the first and only country to ever lose two wars when fighting Italians.
• Wars of Religion: France goes 0-5-4 against the Huguenots
• Thirty Years War: France is technically not a participant, but manages to get invaded anyway. Claims a tie on the basis that eventually the other participants started ignoring her.
• War of Revolution: Tied. Frenchmen take to wearing red flowerpots as chapeaux.
• The Dutch War: Tied
• War of the Augsburg League/King William’s War/French and Indian War: Lost, but claimed as a tie. Three ties in a row induces deluded Frogophiles the world over to label the period as the height of French military power.
• War of the Spanish Succession: Lost. The War also gave the French their first taste of a Marlborough, which they have loved every since.
• Seven year War 1756-1763: Lost: after getting hammered by Frederick the Great of Prussia (yep, the Germans again) at Rossbach, the French were held off for the remainder of the War by Frederick of Brunswick and a hodge-podge army including some Brits. War also saw France kicked out of Canada (Wolfe at Quebec) and India (Clive at Plassey).
• American Revolution: In a move that will become quite familiar to future Americans, France claims a win even though the English colonists saw far more action. This is later known as “de Gaulle Syndrome”, and leads to the Second Rule of French Warfare; “France only wins when America does most of the fighting.”
• French Revolution: Won, primarily due the fact that the opponent was also French.
• Haiti, 1791-1804: French defeated by rebellion after sacrificing 4,000 Poles to yellow fever. Shows another rule of French warfare; when in doubt, send an ally.
• The Napoleonic Wars: Lost. Temporary victories (remember the First Rule!) due to leadership of a Corsican, who ended up being no match for a British footwear designer.
• Mexico, 1863-1864: France attempts to take advantage of Mexico’s weakness following its thorough thrashing by the U.S. 20 years earlier (”Halls of Montezuma”). Not surprisingly, the only unit to distinguish itself is the French Foreign Legion (consisting of, by definition, non-Frenchmen). Booted out of the country a little over a year after arrival.
• The Franco-Prussian War: Lost. Germany first plays the role of drunk Frat boy to France’s ugly girl home alone on a Saturday night.
• Panama jungles 1881-1890: No one but nature to fight, France still loses; canal is eventually built by the U.S. 1904-1914.
• World War I: Tied and on the way to losing, France is saved by the United States. Thousands of French women find out what it’s like to not only sleep with a winner, but one who doesn’t call her “Fraulein.” Sadly, widespread use of condoms by American forces forestalls any improvement in the French bloodline.
• World War II: Lost. Conquered French liberated by the United States and Britain just as they finish learning the Horst Wessel Song.
• War in Indochina: Lost. French forces plead sickness; take to bed with the Dien Bien Flu
• Algerian Rebellion: Lost. Loss marks the first defeat of a western army by a Non-Turkic Muslim force since the Crusades, and produces the First Rule of Muslim Warfare; “We can always beat the French.” This rule is identical to the First Rules of the Italians, Russians, Germans, English, Dutch, Spanish, Vietnamese and Esquimaux.
• War on Terrorism: France, keeping in mind its recent history, surrenders to Germans and Muslims just to be safe. Attempts to surrender to Vietnamese ambassador fail after he takes refuge in a McDonald’s.

But I digress. Mike’s next post:

Examining my visitor logs, I found that my post on the Subway sandwich flap “Let Them Eat Cake” has been attracting quite a bit of attention today in France, Great Britain and one hit from San Francisco, which is about as close to France in spirit as you are likely to find this side of Montreal.

Sorry, readers, but I don’t have a lot of nice things to say about the French, as you will see if you visit that comment stream. But to have one of the ungrateful amphibian slimy toads call Americans “stupid” is just inviting a stronger response.

I have momentarily lifted the ban on profanity, in case any AMERICANS want to put in their two cents… Defeatist, America hating surrender monkeys (and this includes Democrats) may be subject to stricter speech regulation.

Which did not bring back the troll JU unfortunately….but Mike found that JU blogged about him instead here. The poor Altavista translation here:

Nice small American has an opinion radically different from the mienne when one speaks about the countryside of Subway in the USA. This nice small Mike left a message: “So go back to eating snails and see yew we care.” (Turns over to eat snails and see whether one is worried some) Merci Mike, but I eat neither snail, neither frog, nor MacDo. Each one its tastes. It also let see its opinion on its site: “Let Them Eat Cake! Oh it! This story has been around for has while, goal we At Mike S America cuts had our hands full fending off the communist surrender monkeys… The French, and assorted America haters cuts to their berets in A knot over this promotion for has new Subway sandwich: In response to the criticism, Subway has withdrawn the AD, giving France the only victory that sorry bunch of frogs has ever known. Making indignant frogophiles are still not satisfied, threatening to Subway boycott. I say: Let ‘ EM eat cake! However better yet, pass the snails!”" Which beautiful example of depth in the text. And when one sees the photographs of this good old man W one everywhere on the site with the American flags per Ci by there, I suppose an active member of the other with dimensions of the mirror. God Bless America…

Now I know why I cringed every day I was in France in 99. The only thing I did other then eat their awful food was visit Normandy and all the beaches. My Mother and Daughter went and did the touristy stuff but I could not get the bad taste out of my mouth in that country of cowards and ungrateful idiots. Thankfully we were only there for two days before we headed back to England. Wow, what a relief.

Interesting:

Saddam Hussein’s spies planned a wide-ranging scheme to bribe members of the French political elite in the run-up to the Anglo-American invasion, including an offer to help fund President Jacques Chirac’s 2002 re-election campaign.

That bid failed, according to Iraqi secret service papers seen by The Daily Telegraph, when Mr Chirac’s aides allegedly said they did not need the cash.

According to the series of Iraqi intelligence service memorandums uncovered by investigators working for the energy committee of the US House of Representatives, the Iraqis identified a group of politicians and businessmen close to Mr Chirac.

A memo from the head of the 2nd Department of the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi intelligence service, purported to report on conversations between its representative in Paris and Roselyne Bachelot, then a member of the National Assembly and the spokesman for Mr Chirac’s re-election campaign. The Mukhabarat described Mrs Bachelot as “a friend of Iraq”.

But wait…there’s more:

The spies claimed that Mrs Bachelot offered an assurance that France would veto any American proposal to invade Iraq at the UN Security Council and would work to have UN-approved sanctions against Saddam lifted.

But the memo also claimed that Mr Chirac’s team had turned down the cash. The Mukhabarat had conveyed the message that “Iraq is prepared to offer financial support to Chirac, for his election campaign. [Mrs Bachelot] replied joyfully that she will deliver this offer to the financial official of the election campaign.” The Chirac campaign had expressed the “gratitude and appreciation of France” but turned the offer down because the money was not required, the document says.

Gotta hate the French, I really don’t think there is anything good you can say about the French anymore, they are a waste and a joke of a government.

Apparently Bush wants the European’s to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist group. Makes sense right?

As rising instability in Lebanon increases tensions in the Middle East, the Bush administration is arguing with European governments over whether they should designate the Lebanon-based Shiite group Hezbollah a terrorist organization, American and European officials say.

The United States is already stepping up pressure on Iran and Syria, Hezbollah’s main sponsors. The American rift with Syria deepened this week, with suspicions that Syria might have been behind the assassination of Lebanon’s former prime minister in Beirut on Monday.

…

In the past two weeks, the officials said, France has rebuffed appeals by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the Israeli foreign minister, Silvan Shalom, to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, which would prevent it from raising money in Europe through charity groups. The United States has long called Hezbollah a terrorist organization, but the French, American and European officials said, have opposed doing so, and argue that making such a designation now would be unwise, given the new turbulence in Lebanon.

Israeli and American officials say that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has told them that he, too, regards Hezbollah as a destructive force in the Middle East, one determined to undermine peace talks by supporting militant groups that attack Israelis.

Gotta love that. The Palestinian president admits that Hezbollah are a bunch of f-wad terrorists but the French don’t agree….No joke.

The Europeans are not solidly opposed to listing Hezbollah as a terrorist group, the officials said. The Netherlands, Italy and Poland support the Bush administration’s view, several officials said, while Germany and Britain believe the issue is moot unless the French change their minds. One European diplomat said other countries were “hiding behind” France on the issue.

…

A European diplomat said the issue of calling Hezbollah a terrorist organization was discussed in Brussels on Wednesday at a meeting of the Clearing House, a unit of the European Union that meets in confidential sessions to review terrorist activities in Europe. The group could reach no consensus, the diplomat said.

“Nothing is going to change on Hezbollah because we don’t have an agreement among the member states,” the diplomat said. “That doesn’t mean we won’t get a consensus. I know the Americans are impatient, but the European Union has 25 states, and these things take time.”

Some of those interviewed tried to make it sound as if the reason they are hesitant to go along with Bush is because of the situation in Lebanon. But as The Captain points out, it probably has more to do with Iran:

I suspect the true reason for the reluctance comes not from the “delicate” nature of Lebanese politics, but from the relationship between Hezbollah and the Iranians. The EU has tried for the past two years to appease the Iranian mullahs into giving up their nuclear-weapons ambitions to little avail. They don’t want to rock the boat now by attempting to starve out the mullahs’ terror agent that conducts the proxy attacks against Israel that Iran cannot afford to do itself openly.

They did not learn from Hitler’s Germany I guess, they tried to appease that guy too.

This whole thing just reminds me how corrupt and useless France is. They will forever be known as that corrupt and cowards in my opinion.

Read From On High, Dhimmi Watch, Cranky Neocon, and My View Of The World for more.

The Diplomad has brought to my attention an article written in The National Post about France and it’s own war with the Ivory Coast.

For those of you not to hip on the history of this Country there is good synopsis here. Basically France occupied this country as a trade route in the 1840’s and completed their conquest in the 1890’s after a protracted war with the local forces. Since then the French control this country.

“This month, French peacekeepers in the former French colony launched a pre-emptive assault against the Ivorian air force. They also interfered with the internal politics of the troubled nation and sought regime change — or at least they have been accused of both by President Laurent Gbagbo.

They acted without authorization by the United Nations Security Council.

They violated both the UN Charter and the terms of the peacekeeping resolution that established their specific mission in the West African nation.

The Security Council did sanction their attacks after the fact. Nonetheless, the French acted unilaterally, and only sought and received a UN cover story later. There wasn’t even a coalition of the willing. No Brits, Aussies, Poles or Dutch to help out; just French troops, jets, helicopters and armored personnel carriers.

While the French have achieved their military goals quickly and easily, they have failed to stop the destruction of much of the I.C.’s infrastructure.

They have been powerless to end a Muslim insurgency that controls half of Ivory Coast’s territory. They have stood by while schools and libraries were torched, failed to prevent widespread looting and have even fired on civilian mobs twice, killing as many as 60 Ivorians. And they have hardly been welcomed as liberators by the locals.”

“So where are the campus radicals, the smug Western intellectuals and the preening pundits with their accusations of blood for chocolate? Where is their accusation that the whole thing has just been a giant conspiracy to ensure French President Jacques Chirac’s buddies in the chocolate industry have all the cheap cocoa butter they want?
There has been no media talk of quagmire, even though the French have been involved in the I.C.’s civil war for nearly three years. The French military intervention proceeded for the first 17 months without any UN authorization whatever. And the Chirac government has repeatedly escalated its troop commitment from 500 in 2002, to 2,500 in 2003, to 4,000 earlier this year, to 5,000 today. And the situation only worsens.

Where is their outrage at the inability of French forces to secure instantly and perfectly every block of the Ivory Coast’s teeming cities? Where are the BBC interviews with Secretary-General Kofi Annan declaring the French adventure “illegal,” as he did concerning the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq? Where are the letters from Annan to Chirac entreating him not to quell the insurgency or crush the forces fighting French troops for fear of provoking worse from the locals, the way he cautioned the Americans against pacifying Falluja.”

“What’s galling is the way the French have done it all without any deference to the multilateral consensus-building they so smugly demanded of the Americans and British last year when the boots were on the other feet.

Doubly galling is the silence — even complicity — of the UN and the international community, which last year so sanctimoniously and vocally obstructed the invasion of Iraq.”

Hmmm, where is the UN now? What pisses me off is that the US supported the French in the UN for this action, why we would do this after the abuse we took from the corrupt French is beyond me.

Another reason to hate the French. Chirac already got paid a huge amount of money from the Ba’athists using a French bank (Banque Nationale de Paris) but now the Ba’th ruling party is kicking their feet up in the good ole’ French countryside.

With the defeat of the Saddam Hussein regime on April 9, 2003, the Ba’th ruling party was outlawed and a committee for the de-Ba’thification of Iraq was established. However, the Ba’th’s propaganda machine appears to have found a new abode in Paris, France, whence threats to the U.S. are issued regularly in three languages - English, French, and Spanish. Not surprisingly, the Ba’thist propagandists use the word “resistance” (in French, “la resistance”) to underscore the association with the struggle against the Nazi occupation of France during WWII.

The resurrection of the Ba’th Party on French soil was further strengthened by France’s proposal that representatives of “la resistance” should participate in any future conference that will be convened to discuss the future of Iraq. This position was clearly stated by Michel Barnier, the French Foreign Minister, in an interview with the French TV station ” France Inter.” In the interview, Mr. Barnier called for a political process in Iraq that would include “a number of groups and people who have today opted for the path of resistance through the use of weapons.”

Don’t you love how the French, our “allies”, allow a group that wants to kill us to have a HQ in their country? I can’t believe I spent my money in that godforsaken country back in 1999, best part of it was the Normandy beaches and the cemetery. Man, do I hate that country.

The newsletter extends the purpose of the “resistance” not only to defeat “the American-Zionist imperialism in Iraq,” but to other fronts, “particularly in occupied Palestine and Europe, where the Yankee domination is shaken today.” It goes on to affirm its agreement with Che Guevara that, “imperialism has a head, the United States, and that it should be cut off!”

hanks to Sir George for bringing this to my attention.

Chirac and Best Buddy

What a pussy this guy is. Check this article out. He tells Blair that helping us has gotten the British nothing. How about respect, and add on the fact that he has showed the rest of us in the US that the British have some balls. Chirac and his buddies should go back to spending all the cash they got from Saddam and quit whining like the pussies they are.