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Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: Krusher on January 28, 2003, 12:32:49 PM
Should the US step in

link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2701333.stm)
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: Puke on January 28, 2003, 03:13:48 PM
France has oil...they get it from Iraq.  They have many business dealings with Iraq and put their own business dealings over the lives of the Iraqi people and in fact, the world.  Maybe France can build Hussein another Nuclear Plant.  It's actually "no war for oil" and this is well known.  France a "peace loving people"... har!
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: john9001 on January 28, 2003, 03:24:38 PM
the french are rude and eat snails

talking about the french, i was watching the canadian parliment the other night on c-span or something, and even tho the "french" could speak english they insisted on speaking french so every thing they said had to be translated to english , what a way to run a govt.

xenophobic french
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: straffo on January 28, 2003, 04:02:41 PM
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Originally posted by john9001
the french are rude and eat snails

talking about the french, i was watching the canadian parliment the other night on c-span or something, and even tho the "french" could speak english they insisted on speaking french so every thing they said had to be translated to english , what a way to run a govt.

xenophobic french



xenophobic french

Muahahaha :D

rien de tel qu'un idiot pour bien se marrer

@puke

In your dream darling
only in your dreams
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: DA98 on January 28, 2003, 05:05:48 PM
What's wrong with eating snails? :)

(http://www.beuda.com/montserrat/plat04.jpg)
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: hawk220 on January 28, 2003, 05:29:00 PM
I found the French to be very hospitable and gracious, all over the country from Normandy to Nice. I'd go so far as to say they are nicer and more patient to tourists than us Americans.
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: Puke on January 28, 2003, 06:42:28 PM
So I'm dreaming the French have large business interests in Iraq and thus why they are against freeing an enslaved and often murdered population?  Dang, now I kinda wish Hitler was still dancing in France and see your opinion on the matter then.  Or am I dreaming that I want the French to build Iraq another nuclear facility...that I do not want, trust me.  Ther Germans aren't much better, but what makes them worse is that they made David Hasselhof a rock-&-roll star.
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: hyena426 on January 28, 2003, 06:47:10 PM
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Ther Germans aren't much better, but what makes them worse is that they made David Hasselhof a rock-&-roll star.
lol
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on January 29, 2003, 12:21:09 AM
Je sais qui inviter a mon prochain "Dinnet de cons".:D

Oh and ... why they keep calling Canadians, Frenchs? Because we speack the same type of language? Americans are Britishs then.
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: straffo on January 29, 2003, 01:09:18 AM
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Originally posted by Puke
So I'm dreaming the French have large business interests in Iraq and thus why they are against freeing an enslaved and often murdered population?  Dang, now I kinda wish Hitler was still dancing in France and see your opinion on the matter then.  Or am I dreaming that I want the French to build Iraq another nuclear facility...that I do not want, trust me.  Ther Germans aren't much better, but what makes them worse is that they made David Hasselhof a rock-&-roll star.


continue à me faire rire mon pote :)

ever heard of operation condor ?
look at your own mess when speaking of real-politik
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: Dowding on January 29, 2003, 03:02:24 AM
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They have many business dealings with Iraq and put their own business dealings over the lives of the Iraqi people ..


And when US arms companies were selling weapons to Saddam in the 80s to prop up his clearly repressive regime, that was all fine and dandy?

Of course, US companies can do no wrong. Even when it comes to selling chemical and biological weapons to patently tyrranical leaders of totalitarian Middle Eastern states.

I find this sudden deep sympathy with the Iraqi people hilarious. As if suddenly we're discovered they were being repressed, and if suddenly the weapons we (and I include the UK) sold in the 80s are irrelevant.

He wasn't a nice guy back then, either.

People in glass houses...
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: Puke on January 29, 2003, 03:04:19 AM
Operation Condor?  Nope, I can't recall what that is.

My point is that it's so easy to say the USA is going to war when it's not that simple (and really isn't even the case.)  To be just as simplistic, you can say the French are trying to prevent the USA freeing the peoples of Iraq because the French do want their oil (all their business interests come over the people of Iraq.)  Your simplistic point about saying France has no oil so we won't war with them for that reason rubbed me wrong.

Once again, big mean ol' USA never has any intentions other than evil.
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: Monk on January 29, 2003, 05:29:09 AM
Sorry, without a U.N. resolution.............Forget it.;)
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: StSanta on January 29, 2003, 05:49:06 AM
Monk, you got a resolution stating that you can say that?
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: Imp on January 29, 2003, 06:21:07 AM
ROTFLMAO

You guys dont have a clue about France do you?

The French are pacifist, do you know what that word means, thats why they dont want to go to war. Not because of silly econmic links to iraq. The french cant buy oil from iraq because iraq isnt selling any.

Dowding I agree about the sudden sympathy for the Iraqis from US. Its BS. Bush doesnt give a rat arse about the iraqui people.
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: Monk on January 29, 2003, 06:34:37 AM

;)
Did the French need a Resolution?............hmmm, I wonder.
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: Krusher on January 29, 2003, 07:29:01 AM
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Originally posted by Monk
;)
Did the French need a Resolution?............hmmm, I wonder.


Its amazing how a Ivory Coast thread turned into an Iraq thread isnt it...

Not one word on the right or wrong of a French Imposed treaty that favors rebels (according to the article)
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: Monk on January 29, 2003, 09:02:22 AM
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Originally posted by Krusher
Its amazing how a Ivory Coast thread turned into an Iraq thread isnt it...

Not one word on the right or wrong of a French Imposed treaty that favors rebels (according to the article)


Iraq?
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: DrDea/Kvorkian on January 29, 2003, 02:14:26 PM
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Mr Gbagbo's supporters accuse the French of forcing him to concede power to rebels,


  French concede power?Unheard of.:rolleyes:
Title: Protesters are asking the US for help against France
Post by: LePaul on January 29, 2003, 02:34:38 PM
I still love what that guy wrote in to Foxnews the other day...

"The 2 things the French do well:  Make Champagne and Surrender"

Mean, but funny as hell   ;)