OH! The Superior French

[taff]

Its not that i dont realise the importance of the vote made by France. What i dont understand is after so long why are there no attempts to build bridges with the French.Also didnt Germany vote against us as well yet i dont see any anti German threads here.

 

[no1tovote4]

I think i would have to be an American to understand how strongly you all feel over this.Perhaps if we had the same media coverage i would feel the same as you.It just suprises me how you have hung onto this one that i dont fully understand.

Let me see, they have a leader that wants to be the opposing force against the US in the world and has not only publicly stated so but did so while campaigning. They vote against us just to be that opposition. They work to shut down US power with their votes and we are supposed to assume they are really on our side?

I don't understand you at all. Saying that a vote doesn't speak volumes about the stand they are making against the US is simply disingenuous and shows an ignorance that is clearly defined in your posts.

 

[Merlin1047]

I think i would have to be an American to understand how strongly you all feel over this.Perhaps if we had the same media coverage i would feel the same as you.It just suprises me how you have hung onto this one that i dont fully understand.

I can't speak for anyone else, but here's the reason I despise the french government. France presents itself as an ally and a friend. But the fact of the matter is that the french government seeks to harm our interests at every opportunity. Chirac apparently has aspirations of creating a European hegemony with himself at its head. He uses USA bashing in the same way that Hitler used the Jews - as a whipping boy and scapegoat. France views the US in the same way as radical islamists - as the "Great Satan". Only they don't have the balls to say it out loud.

So the reason I get after the french boils down to the fact that I can respect an honest enemy, but I hate and despise a false friend.

 

[taff]

The Red Dragon leads the way?

Its just support of my national rugby club.Rugby is the be all end all in my country.

 

[Annie]

Its not that i dont realise the importance of the vote made by France. What i dont understand is after so long why are there no attempts to build bridges with the French.Also didnt Germany vote against us as well yet i dont see any anti German threads here.

I believe the attempt for the second resolution was that attempt. Seems that Colin Powell was lied to, thus for the current French administration, there is no point in us working with.

Germany has flipped and flopped a bit. They seem determined to fly off of French coattails in EU, trying to block Brits, but still trying not to break from US.

 

[Annie]

Its not that i dont realise the importance of the vote made by France. What i dont understand is after so long why are there no attempts to build bridges with the French.Also didnt Germany vote against us as well yet i dont see any anti German threads here.

Here is a popular blog on German press: http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2005/01/sueddeutsche_ze.html

as you can see, there are some thoughtful Germans who do not like what has been happening there. In this case he recognizes that a lot of people are influenced by the press. This seems to be a bit of cognizance that the French have not developed. The only consistent voice has been the: http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/dacha/index.html

and as you can see, it's mostly American readers.

 

[freeandfun1]

Its not that i dont realise the importance of the vote made by France. What i dont understand is after so long why are there no attempts to build bridges with the French.Also didnt Germany vote against us as well yet i dont see any anti German threads here.

If we feel (which we do) that the French have "wronged" us, why should we attampt to build a bridge with them. Should not they be attempting to build a bridge with us?

 

[taff]

Right i got the message how you feel about the french. This will go on for ten pages if we dont finish here, and we all seem to be just repeating ourselves.All the best , Taff
By the way onedomino if your going to give me a negative vote have the courage to leave a comment.Just cos i thought your comments were ridiculous about all the french being jew haters,Doh.I looked at this site because i fought in the Gulf so i am interested in public opinions, i was also fighting the war on terrorism before the Americans were involved in Belfast where i was being shot at with bullets paid for by American sympathisers for the cause.So much for allies.Please dont try contradicting me on this as i lived it not just read it in a paper somewhere which seems to be all the qualifications you need here to be an expert.

 

[onedomino]

Right i got the message how you feel about the french. This will go on for ten pages if we dont finish here, and we all seem to be just repeating ourselves.All the best , Taff
By the way onedomino if your going to give me a negative vote have the courage to leave a comment.Just cos i thought your comments were ridiculous about all the french being jew haters,Doh.I looked at this site because i fought in the Gulf so i am interested in public opinions, i was also fighting the war on terrorism before the Americans were involved in Belfast where i was being shot at with bullets paid for by American sympathisers for the cause.So much for allies.Please dont try contradicting me on this as i lived it not just read it in a paper somewhere which seems to be all the qualifications you need here to be an expert.

The behavior of American sympathizers of the IRA cannot be compared to the US Government’s relationship with the UK. “So much for allies?” That does not make any sense. The US just sent back to Britain four terrorist UK citizens that were detained at Gitmo for three years. Should I now think of the UK, “So much for allies?” taff, my post above made it quite clear why I dinged your rep. The fact that you think French anti-Semitism is "ridiculous" demonstrates that you are ill-informed and have not studied history.

http://www.remember.org/guide/History.root.modern.html
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0403/0403antisemiticmoment.htm
http://www.aish.com/literacy/jewishhistory/Crash_Course_in_Jewish_History_Part_59_-_The_Face_of_Anti-Semitism.asp
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/France.html
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/6405.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/129008.html
http://www.hsje.org/cause_for_boycott_frances_anti.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2892125.stm
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=11375 Check the 360+ comments to this blog's article: "French Antisemitism Watch."
http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-26.htm
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/cusf/analysis/dreyfus_20020514.htm
http://www.chronwatch.com/featured/2002-06-28mr.asp
http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/~os0tmc/occupied/final.htm "France and the Final Solution"

Get the point, taff? Do some reading before you call French anti-Semitism "ridiculous."
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