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Tuesday, April 08, 2003
 
Those Freakin' Frog Suckers Be the Death of Us All

"Hating Yankees too much; Those beret-headed nuts; They can stick the Eiffel Tower; Straight up their butts." -- French People Suck by The Meatmen

This item over at the Command Post is drawing lots of comments on whether or not the French are ultimately our allies. I vote no, but some guy living in France and calling himself General Patton disagrees. I suspect he's just making the same, crisp, 180° heel-turn that some of the French pols now seem to be executing. I've been drinking the French wines out of my cellar, and I have no plans to replace them.

Especially good in the comments was this from spin:
The problem I (and other Americans) have with France is not that they disagreed, but that they attempted to build a global coalition of disagreement, speak on behalf of all European countries to the frusteration of those European countries that supported us, disrupt attempts of NATO to defend a possible attack on Turkey and organize a situation in the security council optimized not only to defeat a US-UK-Spanish proposal but embarass the US at the same time.

And beyond all of that, this isn't the first time France has done this. In the first Gulf War, the French were difficult to get onboard. The French are suspected of having secret contact and support of Iraq, the French want to organize a Europe that is a polar opposite to the US, just like everything else they do.
That about nails it.