Vichyssoise is punishment? I take back everythng I said. Wait a minute, I’ll be noble…in the interest of world peace, you can punish me instead. Go ahead, do your worst: bring on the French wine and the vichyssoise. (Although I’d prefer if you switched the manner of delivery of the wine, please.)
Of the 18 times France has used its veto in the security council, 15 of those times have been in conjunction with the US or the UK, 13 of which were with both. The three remaining vetoes were in 1946, 1947 and 1976.
Real obstructionist.
The US, on the other hand, has been the lone veto 53 times out of 76 uses.
A leader of France named Chirac,
Said no-one should ever attack.
…War is all poppycock,
…Says our grandiose Jacques,
Since he gets his oil from Iraq.
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Just like Haliburton, Exxon et. al.
Poor old GWB had some trouble:
“Though most of Kabul’s turned to rubble,
Bin Laden’s not found,
And Al Q’s gone to ground.
Get me PNAC on the double!”
So Dubya asked Perle “are you certain
That bombing Iraq will divert 'em?”
“Sure,” said Wolfowitz,
“Just blow them to bits.
Bonus: contracts for our Haliburton!”
Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue,
Chirac is a fucking dipshit.
The Bard himself would be jealous Brutus.
The Muse was with me, I must admit.
Unfortunately, it looks like his support has never been higher.
On the other hand, it’s nice to know that the media is as stupid over there as it is over here.
It’s a Murdoch rag, not “the media”.
I was referring to the embedded quotes from the french news sources in the Murdoch rag. Speaking of which, anyone got a good link to a respectable french newspaper in english? I’ve been reading Deusche Welles, and the arab papers… the latter are very amusing sometimes… but I never see french stuff on Google News.
Bravo!
Yes, but you would have to eat it warm. Every civilized person knows that is just not done. It would be like drinking fine champagne at room temperature or above. Tsk. That you could even think of such a thing, Eva
Actually, maybe I’m a freak, but to me, warm vichyssoise ain’t half bad. Makes good picnic food, in fact.
Chirac didn’t want to attack Iraq and doesn’t want to let US/UK set up the new country since he has been in bed with Hussein for many years.
http://www.alisrael.com/tamuz/ - notice that Chirac met wtih Hussein and help sell Iraq a reactor.
And when was it that Rumsfeld met with Saddam? 1983 or somesuch?
And which country was it who sold a nuclear reactor to Israel?
Um, France.
Eva, I know it doesn’t matter to the OP but the French teacher in me is screaming out: it’s an apostrophe (not an accent) in “s’il” . It’s the i in “plait” that has a circonflex. Sorry, I don’t know the secret keystrokes to do it on a pc, just on a Mac.
Please don’t pit me for correcting your French.
Carry on with your pitting of Chirac, everyone…