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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: REP0MAN on January 20, 2006, 01:45:29 PM
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When did Chirac grow a pair?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060120/ap_on_re_eu/france_nuclear
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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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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This just in.....Paris nuked in response to riots...news at 11.
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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.
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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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Originally posted by Gunslinger
Thanks Le France it is.
Right on!
:aok
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"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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Well thank god that's cleared up. What would we ever do with out ya Beet?!
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Jacques Chirac is an idiot,"
This made me laugh for about an hour
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.
In you're quest to correct me, you overlooked the punchline...:p
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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
Bronk
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Originally posted by Bronk
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
Bronk
SHACK!:aok :rofl
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
SHACK!:aok :rofl
Hehe C'mon you all were thinking it . I just said it.
Bronk
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Bush is a idiot
Can I remember you ,that YOU are the one loosing tons of your tax $$ and soldier in a war ?
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Chirac, what a joke.
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Originally posted by straffo
Bush is a idiot
Can I remember you ,that YOU are the one loosing tons of your tax $$ 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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Bet you didn't know that French Submarines are the only oar driven submersives in the World!!! With Mandatory "White Flag".
"Viva la Okay don't shoot!"
Mac
Oh gotta mention the Canadian Space Program....
"Okay yer turn to throw the Beaver Eh?"
:aok
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Bush is a cretin ... so are his suporter
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Chirac has no P3NIS...or Balls.
Take gnards to do what Bush has done!
:D
Mac
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Don`t get carried away. I think what he actualy meant to say was that if such an act took place the white flag would be lit by a nuclear powered light.
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To put that at the forefront of any response to a terrorist act shows the French army is weak. Although I like the thinking :aok
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Originally posted by straffo
Bush is a idiot
Can I remember you ,that YOU are the one loosing tons of your tax $$ and soldier in a war ?
Actually, we're borrowing the money from China.
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Originally posted by straffo
Bush is a cretin ... so are his suporter
I'm beginning to get the impression that you don't like our President. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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this thread rocks, funny stuff guys. especially the beaver thing AWMac :rofl
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Originally posted by rshubert
I'm beginning to get the impression that you don't like our President. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Nope , I don't really care of Bush.
but the tribe of cretin present here get on my nerve.
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"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."
I'm in absolute tears over this beauty. 'Amurkin never said it either.
:rofl :cry :rofl :cry :rofl :cry :rofl :cry
Karaya
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Well it seems that now most of Europe is starting to feel like I did years ago. Soon only a few radicals in France will defend his government. And one radical in this BBS.
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they allways get all huffy and such..... just before they surrender.
lazs
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"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."
Yep, he and all his supporter, straffo, really are living in the past of a failed yet grandious never never land. :rolleyes:
:p :t