KT Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 00:22 GMT
Crab Bloke
Why are you soo mad with the French. We are loving people who s[read joy and happiness throughout the world. Don't be such a jerk and spread your love. Do you want to meet and share some love?
Reply to Crap Bloke Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 05:50 GMT
Please do drop French class.
We don't want brainless & tasteless cows to speak this HUMAN language.
Keep English & buy an idendity for yourself.
You badly need one.
to the shitty Crap Bloke page 21 Tuesday, May 20, 2003, 12:19 GMT
VIVE LA FRANCE!
The spirit of Lafayette lives on in the refusal of France to go along with the War Party
Two-hundred and twenty-five years ago, the French were instrumental in aiding the American revolutionaries in their fight against the British Empire. Today, they are once again playing a key role in aiding American fighters against another sort of Empire � this time, one based in Washington, D.C.
As Dominique de Villepin, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, put it:
"The idea of regime change [in Iraq] introduces into international relations an instability whose consequences we have to assess. Whose job would it be to decide that a regime is good or that a regime is bad? What would be the first factor denoting an unacceptable regime? What would stop a regime being acceptable?"
As America crosses the Rubicon, and abandons the legacy of the Founders for a new age of Caesarism, the French, threatening to use their UN veto, stand in the way � and the fury of the War Party has been unleashed, to often comical effect. Do you want to see hate? Take a gander at the cover of the [UK] Sun, a newspaper, nasty even by Murdochian standards, of the sort that gives tabloids a bad name. Chirac is depicted as a worm, and the editorial screeches at him:
"You were only too happy to welcome the Americans when France was crushed under Hitler's boot. But today you look down on the American people and their president, and you forget how many American and British soldiers, sailors and pilots gave their lives... for the freedom of this country."
But if the French are obligated to kowtow to the Americans � and Tony Blair � on account of a debt that can never be repaid, then what about the debt Americans owe to the French, whose aid during the Revolution secured our victory over King George III? The Brits don't want to bring that up, of course, but without the French we'd all be singing "God save the Queen" and suffering the ill effects of London's latest socialist scheme.
You have to hand it to the War Party, however: their hate campaign is not so much coordinated as it is choreographed, with radio "shock jocks" and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal dancing to the same tune of "Hate the Frogs." In Texas, a radio screamer stages a public bulldozing of French products, and, in Congress, the cry is heard to impose tariff penalties on our recalcitrant allies. Why, those effete French know-it-alls, they yelp, how dare they mock our rootin' tootin' cow-Boy Emperor.
John Fund, writing in the War Street Journal, approvingly notes that some dive in North Carolina has stopped selling french fries: "We now serve freedom fries," announces owner Neal Rowland, who also confides that
This bullshit that "to the shittiest crab bloke" goes on for about another page. Does he really think I would read it? What i posted was only half. He needs to type less like "KT" or "Reply to crab bloke" If you read what "to the shittiest crab bloke" wrote.. you wasted your time.
