Hey yall -- I think I'm first, darn it.

yes you are.

Third!

At least Mr. Bush isn't from Oklahoma or Arkansas*. In which case he might have said that the information was "gooder than #@%$".

* Incidentally, Oklahoma and Arkansas were purchased from the French, who saw no further purpose in their claim to the territory. Y'know -- since they couldn't control Haiti an' all.

If this one doesn't work, next try will be in Ebonics. (Clinton, the first black President? Naw, just wait until you hear Dubya.)

Mark my word...

And if Ebonics doesn't do it, then he'll REALLY get eveyone by defending the intel reports, ironically, in French.

President Bush isn't from Oklahoma and that has to be some kind of cosmic geographical mistake. Of course that white-trash dimocrat Clinton isn't either so it kinda evens out. We like 'ol Dubya a lot. We voted real heavily for him in the last election. Got no use for an arkansas cur though.

Q. What do you get when you have 16 women in the same place in Arkansas?

A. A full set of teeth.

Better watch the french references chump change. The "Native Americans" (Indians) get pretty sensitive about who "owned" what. The liberals get pretty uppity about it too, when it suits their wacky rhetoric or unnatural desires to hug trees.

But isn't it just like the french to wuss out on anything...

Remember to boycott france. Heck, they deserve it just on general principles.

Still looking for the Maid of Orleans to march on Paris again. Where is she when you need her?

Joan, the first recorded cross-dresser!
Hmmmmm! From France -- well, almost,
since northern France was controlled by the English (boeuf-manges) at the time ;-)

It is known that English play-actors were cross-dressers (in the plays ;-)), too. I do not know the names of any of them.

Bush said :

"I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence. And the speeches I have given were backed by good intelligence,

And I am absolutely convinced today, like I was convinced when I gave the speeches, that Saddam Hussein developed a program of weapons of mass destruction and that our country made the right decision."

We are not convinced.

Great Metaphor

"They're like a moist layer of cornbread, smothered in red beans with a fat jalapeno sittin' on top."

Initially satisfying but destined to come back to bite you in the end.

I was the first annimated cross dresser.

ahhhhhhhh.....cornbread

A US Marine absconded with a 12-year-old !

Hey Froggy!!! I am having trouble deciding whether you are trying to be inflamatory in some misguided attempt at sick humor, or if you are really are a typically ignorant, malodorous, Frenchman, who talks haughtily, but when the stuff hits the fan, throws his hands straight up in the air in surrender to the prevailing power of the day. Need I remind you of D-Day there pal, and the fact that you OWE YOUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE TO THE U.S. !!!! If you are such an expert in American foreign policy, answer me this: Why is France so willing to risk American lives in Liberia, when there is no prevailing national interest for either country? Is it out of humanitarian concern? If that is the case, why did France so vehemently oppose LIBERATION of Iraq, when the known and documented attrocities there were as, if not more, horrific that anything brought on Liberia by Charles Taylor? Is it possibly because France had vital business interests in Iraq to protect? You tell us.

And this relates to the topic of the story how?

Shall we start researching the current history of pedophilia in France? Perhaps just among military personnel?

Dear Passionate Sage,

"you OWE YOUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE TO THE U.S. !!!!"

My God (if any)! :-)

I think that I owe my "ENTIRE EXISTENCE" to my father and mother. God (if any) bless them.

History is, My God (if any) !, a little more complicated than your propaganda (Propaganda is always created for national use only and our is as bad as yours but different).

Causal relationships are also more complicated!

I still thank and respect your Grand-Fathers and Great-Uncles for their help. As well as the Red Army veterans and all others W W II veterans.

But Heroism is NOT genetically passed down from generation to generation.

So I do NOT see any reason to obey and respect the PRESENT US citizens for what their Grand Fathers did !

Cordialement,

PS: France, as well as the USA, has vital business interests in Iraq. Oil is behind the "Noble Rhetoric" in both countries.

PS2: A US Marine absconding with a 12-year-old does not imply that all US marines like 12-years old! YOUR reaction does imply that YOUR logic is flawed.

Dear Froggy,
To refer to logical debate as propaganda is a time honored tradition of leftists like yourself that does little more than demonstrate your lack of sound reasoning. I'm surprised you did not take the typical antiwar rhetorical tack and start screaming, "BABY KILLER, BABY KILLER!!!!" Oh wait, you kinda did didn't you. What relevance does the action of one soldier have? This is twice you saw fit to point this alleged atrocity out. As horrible as what you claim is, you are foolish to judge all American troops by the actions of one.

When a nation goes to war to assist a supposed ally, it is something more than a trifle you can pass off as the heroism of a bygone age. I can assure you that if the circumstances of WWII were ever to repeat themselves, and you and your fellow countrymen were to again find yourselves devoid of all honor and patriotism and were to surrender to another foreign power, the U.S. would be there, storming the beaches and paratrooping into your country side to save your necks again. I must say that I, as an American, wholeheartedly thank the French for their stinky cheese and the Statue of Liberty. However I must ask in all earnestness that you not look so lightly on the sacrifices we made as a country oh so long ago to save YOU.

PS: Frenchy,
You never answered my question about Liberia.

Dear Passionate Sage,

The US went to war not only for the Highly Noble reason of "assisting a supposed ally" but also for economic and political reasons.

I do not take seriously the noble rhetoric used a posteriori to explain the US entering the WWII.

First,the RED ARMY did the job in Europe. The US waited for all European powers to be weakened and then attacked. That is strategically correct from a cynical point of view.

It is something more than a trifle you can pass off as the heroism of a bygone age, it is REALPOLITIK of all ages.

The US also did their best to destroy the French Colonial Empire. The USA being a colony, it is quite funny. Isn't it ?

IT IS ALL ABOUT POWER: NO NOBLE RHETORIC CAN HIDE THE GREAT GAME OF POWER.

And about "the sacrifices we made as a country", what do you know about the sacrifices that were made in my country ?

How many deaths in your family during WWI and WWII ?

We can compare if you want.

Cordialement,

I do not understand your question about Liberia. I am still expecting to see if the US Army is going to Liberia.

We waited because a large number of the electorate did not want to get involved in yt another European war.
An equally large number did want to get involved, and the subsequent debate delayed our entrance.
Then Japan attacked.
Our first entry into the "European Theater" was in North Africa against...(wait for it)...French troops.

And yes, if someone were foolish enough to start up a conventional war in Europe, we would be in it immediately.

Wow, Frenchman admitted that France's oil interests might be a teeny bit responsible for their foreign policy in Iraq! This truely is a red letter day in the US/ France detente.

While we're on the subject of Frog-bashing, this is something I've wanted to ask a Frenchman for a long time. WHY THE HECK WAS YOUR COUNTRY STUPID ENOUGH TO TWICE THINK THE MAGINOT LINE WOULD PROTECT YOU FROM GERMANY!

I can understand the blunder in WWI; Kaiser's decision to bypass the Maginot line (by invading Belgium and attacking through the unprotected border France shares with it) was a bit unexpected. But a rational person would have concluded that, since the Maginot line didn't prevent an invasion from Germany, the border with Belgium would have to be fortified as well. Instead some genius concluded that the solution was to RE-FORTIFY THE MAGINOT LINE TO MAKE IT STRONGER! Did the French just assume that Hitler was less of a warmonger than the Kaiser? Or did France just WANT to be conquered by Germany? (I mean, again?)

Oh, and speaking of dumb moves by the French, you guys should really demand your money back from Woody Allen, because now, when every American thinks of France, we think of the 60+ year old Allen making out with his stepdaughter. Or was that mistake made because it was assumed that all Americans were girl-fondling Marines?

hello free speakers...!!

this is a friend from your most beloved France...

face it, Usa is an island (soon an aircraft carrier).

You have no idea of what it is to be FORCED to live with other nationalities&habits; on a daylife basis.

This is why we are reluctant to fighting, we would drop bombs in our own backyards...things are small and intricated here.

Usa sees RestOfWolrd as a Map.

I have NEVER heard of an American achieving INTEGRATION in any part of the world. Just come, and re-organise. If not enough budget, then they do not enter.

You must realise that your sharp democracy can only pervade SLOWLY for the next 300 years.
Otherwise you'll be killing the very populations you are pretending to save at lightspeed.

Everybody now knows that COMMERCE is the reason why different breeds make friends despite natural warnings.

Where's the next economical model that will force EQUAL retribution in EVERY deal ?

You won't save your butts by playing the Armour Game.
Gun always win that confrontation.

Better make the gun rusty...darn cowboys !!!

Talk to the French.....;)