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Offline REP0MAN

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« on: January 20, 2006, 01:45:29 PM »
When did Chirac grow a pair?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060120/ap_on_re_eu/france_nuclear

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PARIS -    President Jacques Chirac drew scorching criticism in Europe on Friday for suggesting France would consider a nuclear response to state-sponsored terrorism.
 
Chirac's headline-grabbing comments in a speech Thursday sent a warning to countries like    Iran and sought to nip in the bud domestic debate about whether deeply indebted France still needs its expensive nuclear deterrent in the post-Cold War world.

The French leader, with his second and probably final term nearing its end, laid out an updated doctrine for France's military might for the 21st century amid the threat of terrorism.

In the broad address, Chirac warned unspecified "leaders of states that would use terrorist means against us" that they could face "a firm and fitting response." Analysts and presidential aides said he had no specific country in mind, but newspaper editorialists widely read them to be directed at Iran, and possibly    North Korea.

Chirac seemed to draw little initial support abroad for his call for the    European Union to pool its deterrent forces "in the perspective of a strong Europe."

The volume of criticism could even set back that hope.

"Jacques Chirac is an idiot," chided Belgian daily De Morgen in an editorial. "He lives in a time where France is no longer a world power, but he's still acting as if prolonging a Napoleonic dynasty."

Spain's El Pais called the speech "radical and dangerous."

Many faulted the timing. France, Britain and Germany have been seeking guarantees that Iran will not develop nukes, and have taken key steps toward possible U.N. sanctions against Tehran.

"Such saber rattling in the face of the current crisis over Iran's atomic weapons program is basically a false signal," said Xanthe Hall of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War in Berlin.

If Chirac ends his tenure as president next year, he will have left an indelible mark on France's nuclear deterrent. Shortly after winning the presidency in 1995, he drew international fury by ordering France's final nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

Conservative Milan daily Il Giornale suggested the "pacifist sympathies" for Chirac over his opposition to the U.S.-led    Iraq war had worn off.

France's nuclear arsenal, which analysts estimate at some 300 warheads mostly deployed on submarines, is viewed as a deterrent tool and is not intended for a battle situation.

Observers saw a political pitch at home by Chirac: activist groups and even military circles have questioned the euro3 billion-plus ($3.62 billion) annual cost to keep up France's nuclear arsenal.

But at home, too, the speech garnered criticism.

"Another pearl in the words of Chirac — but this one is a bit dramatic and provocative," said Revolutionary Communist League party leader Alain Krivine, a longtime critic of the conservative Chirac, on French TV. "It's a completely irresponsible declaration."
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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2006, 04:05:40 PM »
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PARIS - President Jacques Chirac drew scorching criticism in Europe on Friday for suggesting France would consider a nuclear response to state-sponsored terrorism.
 


Bwahahahahahahahaha oh the irony... how are Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur these days?
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Offline *NDM*JohnnyX

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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2006, 04:17:16 PM »
This just in.....Paris nuked in response to riots...news at 11.
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2006, 05:41:10 PM »
It's La France. In French, all countries with a name ending in E are deemed to be feminine gender with one exception: Le Mexique = Mexico.
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Offline Gunslinger

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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2006, 05:44:42 PM »
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Originally posted by beet1e
It's La France. In French, all countries with a name ending in E are deemed to be feminine gender with one exception: Le Mexique = Mexico.


Thanks Le France it is.
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2006, 06:59:53 PM »
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Thanks Le France it is.


Right on!
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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2006, 07:03:01 PM »
"Many faulted the timing. France, Britain and Germany have been seeking guarantees that Iran will not develop nukes, and have taken key steps toward possible U.N. sanctions against Tehran"

Wait wait dont tell me!

They are going to pass a resolution!

And that is going to just make Iran quiver and shake in its sandles and give up ALL Nuclear ambitions which of coarse they wont have by the time the French boots on the ground get there.
because they didnt have them
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« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2006, 07:04:12 PM »
Well thank god that's cleared up.  What would we ever do with out ya Beet?!
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« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2006, 07:50:06 PM »
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Jacques Chirac is an idiot,"


This made me laugh for about an hour

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It's La France. In French, all countries with a name ending in E are deemed to be feminine gender with one exception: Le Mexique = Mexico.


In you're quest to correct me, you overlooked the punchline...:p
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« Reply #9 on: January 20, 2006, 07:56:47 PM »
The french are pissed because the iranians used russian , and german tech.
Unlike iraqui who used frech tech along with germ and russian tech.

:noid



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« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2006, 07:59:10 PM »
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The french are pissed because the iranians used russian , and german tech.
Unlike iraqui who used frech tech along with germ and russian tech.

:noid



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SHACK!:aok :rofl
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« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2006, 08:02:50 PM »
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SHACK!:aok :rofl


Hehe C'mon you all were thinking it . I just said it.



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« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2006, 02:06:26 AM »
Bush is a idiot

Can I remember you ,that YOU are the one loosing tons of your tax $$ and soldier in a war ?
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Offline Monk

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« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2006, 02:28:15 AM »
Chirac, what a joke.
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Offline Vulcan

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« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2006, 03:06:23 AM »
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Bush is a idiot

Can I remember you ,that YOU are the one loosing tons of your tax $$ and soldier in a war ?


Yeah, how dare the USA commit such acts on foreign territory ... France would never do that  :rolleyes:
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