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Le Sporq
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Here's a funny thing for those people who've still been throwing stupid phrases like this around (Freedom Fries, Freedom Toast, etc)... Had it not been for one of the points raised as an argument in favor of the Shrub's oil-war, the Jacques Chirac's government was just as willling to commit troops to the operation, though based on the bogus argument that the Pentagon gang browbeat Colin Powell into making before the UN, they called "bullshit" on thedeal and backed off.
The Bush administration argued (among one of their many arguments) that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was capable of using WMD's on American soil within 45 minutes...this argument, made with shaky information, was made over and above the protests of intelligence personnel both inside and outside the US government who knew better, but who needs good intel when you can whip up public fervor with a nice, fat dose of fearmongering.
France, while not toally clean, by any means, was actually looking out for the United State's best interests as much as its own by disagreeing with the cause for war.
After all, do all those people who buy into the FAUX news spin that anything French is inherently bad want to give back the Statue of Liberty?
Do they want to re-name LaFayette Square in DC and forget about the French troops and officers without whose help independence from Britain would not likely have been possible
When 9/11 Happened, France and the rest of the NATO nations cited language in the NATO charter (Resolution 19) which declared that an attack on one member staqte constituted an attwack on all... The funny part of all of this is that this language was drafted way back when by the US so that it could come to the aid of member states in Europe if THEY came under attack. In other words, the rest of the NATO states said "If they're fucking with you, they're fucking with all of us, let us help you
European leadership made all manner of offers of assistance in the now so-called "War on Terror" but between Bush's disturbingly apocalyptic religious beliefs and the little clique of imperialists at the Pentagon that works the string in Bush's back gave them and has been giving them the finger at every turn, and never more evident than in the whole anti-France backlash which is Ironic with a delibertely capital "I" because one of the people who started raking shit against the French keeps a villa not too far from the Riviera (I guess because being near the mediterranean makes it easier for Mr. Perle to continue selling secrets to Israel like he was busted for doing back in 1970)
Besides making us look like silly, easily led sheep when we use such dorky turns of phrase coined by ignorant poiticians, i don't think the French are all that broken-up about us taking their name of egg-soaked toast and fried potatoes
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Aimee
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it's called an overreaction....
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misstree
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/me breathes deep of open air.
monsieur sporque, gracias. ahem. what i mean to say is, indeed.
and what do you mean by "making us look like silly, easily led sheep"... you mean we (as a culture) are not???
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shivers
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i love frenchies...
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DannyH
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Formidable monsieur sporque.
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The Spork
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Tree, I mean anybody who so willingly buys into the propaganda slung forth by politicians with poorly hidden agendas that they never examine the larger picture for themselves, the seventy percent of the US population in a recent poll that believes (and with all those loosely implied suggestions that the President and his cabinet were throwing around to and including VP Cheney's appearance on NBC a couple of weeks ago, i wonder how. *sarcasm*.) that Iraq was directly or substantively involved in 9/11 and that our search teams actually have found any portion of the great fabled caches of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Those gullible, easily led sheep. The ones who will believe with great fervor when told by Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh or whomever is occupying the position of White House Mouthpiece that We Have Always Been At War With Eastasia if they see fit to tell us so
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silentbob
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i took this girl in my arms and hushed her sweetly. and then we freedom kissed all night.
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Dafremen
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Was that the chick down the street with the 3 freedom poodles? The one that owns the Freenault LeCar with the flames on the sides? You know, that 3 speed blob of Freedom's mustard with a windshield.
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Le Sporq
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So do Republicans call the town Freedom Lick, Indiana and go to the Freedom Quarter in New Orleans and drink Freedom Roast Coffee with Freedom Vanilla flavoured Creamer and remodel their houses with Freedom Doors and have sex using a Freedom tickler?
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celestias shadow
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yes, monsieur sporque, i believe they do. and while they're at it, why don't they rename Germany 'Liberty'? i'm sure that would go over well with the conservativ- oh, i'm sorry, NEOconservatives!! *cough*bullshit*cough*
after all, you're dead right. they'd like us to believe we HAVE always been at war with Eastasia. thank god George Orwell didn't live to see our world today. i have a feeling it just might kill him.
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Dafremen
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Or have had him starting a psychic hotline.
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