What did the French do that caused all this French bashing? Summarize it for me. I can't seem to figure out where all this is coming from. There's lots of French surfers, after all. (See surf-related.)
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by SaltCreekRat:
<strong>the general reason for french-bashing is that we saved their ass bigtime, and now they refuse to help us. I think.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You know, this is what bugs me. We saved their ass, but we expect something in return.
Tell me, anyone, (not picking on you SCR), if you pulled a drowning man from the sea, what would you expect from his children? What if his children grew up to have different beliefs that you? A big deal, or okay because it's their own free will?
That's what we're doing with France right now. I call bull****. You can't expect the children of someone you saved to step up and kiss your ass. It should not be expected. Simple as that.
<strong>the general reason for french-bashing is that we saved their ass bigtime, and now they refuse to help us. I think.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You know, this is what bugs me. We saved their ass, but we expect something in return.
Tell me, anyone, (not picking on you SCR), if you pulled a drowning man from the sea, what would you expect from his children? What if his children grew up to have different beliefs that you? A big deal, or okay because it's their own free will?
That's what we're doing with France right now. I call bull****. You can't expect the children of someone you saved to step up and kiss your ass. It should not be expected. Simple as that.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by dysfunctional:
<strong>I like chicken.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I like you, too.
<strong>I like chicken.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I like you, too.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Rotisserie Chicken:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by dysfunctional:
<strong>I like chicken.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I like you, too.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Aww shucks. Finger licken good.
[ March 12, 2003, 12:29 PM: Message edited by: dysfunctional ]
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by dysfunctional:
<strong>I like chicken.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I like you, too.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Aww shucks. Finger licken good.
[ March 12, 2003, 12:29 PM: Message edited by: dysfunctional ]
The French overwhelmingly support and help pass resolution 1441, which calls for the use of force if Sadaam doesn't produce (he hasn't). Iraq does not produce and when it comes time to follow through with said resolution they backtrack and say "veto"! no matter what, no matter what ammendments to 1441 are made. THEN Chirac and this whole Mugabe thing. Such a hypocritical SOB...Its all about France wanting more political power in the world. ALl of the sudden Chirac puts France in the spotlight to give their country's citizens a sense of belonging in the world stage. what a sham
That was a whole lot more than,"a word," Nameless.
As for the French, I regard them with contempt not only because of their ingratitude towards all the U.S. has done for them but because of their general arrogance towards all that is not French.
As for the French, I regard them with contempt not only because of their ingratitude towards all the U.S. has done for them but because of their general arrogance towards all that is not French.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by nameless:
<strong>France has been very brave to stand up to this hateful, cowardly nonsense that we mean to do. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hahaha.....stop it, your funnier than all those jokes I posted.
<strong>France has been very brave to stand up to this hateful, cowardly nonsense that we mean to do. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hahaha.....stop it, your funnier than all those jokes I posted.
Crap, the French want the oil deal just like the rest, the fact that they are now trying to take the high road is ridiculous. I say screw em all, let the rest of the world rise up, settle this matter and take the credit for themselves, then we can get all our troops back safely and spend the dollars on the good ole U.S. of mother****ing A. were it belongs instead of lending the world what could and should be spent on US.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by nameless:
As for me, I say, "Vive la France, qui resiste encore et toujours!": <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" /> [/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And I say, "Stick a croissant up you a$$"
As for me, I say, "Vive la France, qui resiste encore et toujours!": <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" /> [/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">And I say, "Stick a croissant up you a$$"
If you feel like the French owe us alleigence for the "rescue" in WWI and WWII, I have two questions for you. First, couldn't we just call it even? I mean, they kind of got us independence from England in the late Eighteenth century.
Second, should African Americans be recieving reparations for slavery? Their "free" labor helped create the wealth of America, should they not share a bit more in the spoils?
Second, should African Americans be recieving reparations for slavery? Their "free" labor helped create the wealth of America, should they not share a bit more in the spoils?
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by nameless:
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Then we made clear that we really did not want the UN disarmament process to work at all </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">thats funny, I thought it was Sadaam, over the last 12 years, that didn't want the process to work.
tell me, How did we make it clear that we didn't want it to work?
Impovershed nation?
Wasn't the decision to impose sanctions on Iraq after gulf war 1 a UN resolution?
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Then we made clear that we really did not want the UN disarmament process to work at all </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">thats funny, I thought it was Sadaam, over the last 12 years, that didn't want the process to work.
tell me, How did we make it clear that we didn't want it to work?
Impovershed nation?
Wasn't the decision to impose sanctions on Iraq after gulf war 1 a UN resolution?
"impovereshed naiton that poses no immenent threat?" nameless.. you are dumb... where have you bee nthe last 12-15 years? the fact that he has WMD means he poses no threat right? and the fact that he wants to use this on the US mean he poses no threat right? haha whatever man.. i have thoguht long and hard about this war and evne as much as i ahte to see innocent people killed, , the only way we can protect ourselves is to stirke first. either way, innocent lives will be lost! if we wait for saddam to strike first we will be the ones with the high civian casualties though!
and don't forget the American revolution wasn't it the French that aided us in our war with the Brits??!! hmmm...
food for thought.
Rotisserie chicken sounds really good right now...
food for thought.
Rotisserie chicken sounds really good right now...