After an exhausting session with Victoria's Secret Police, "Thomas J.
Paladino Jr." confessed the following:

European opinion is reflective of the European media... which is about as
diverse as Al-Jazeera vs. Al-Arabya. At least here in the US we have more
than one opinion on the air, so people can accurately make up their minds.

WTFO? Based upon what evidence? So during the Clinton years when our
country was widely respected by europeans proves your point...how?
Face it, europeans hate gwb...and now more and more they hate american
citizens. That was not the case even during Reagan's 8 years or old
George's 4 years.

The roughly 50-50 split in the UK is proof of "pro or anti" US press?

Combine that with long-standing anti-Americanism and you have a rather
obsinant population that will do anything to keep America from projecting
power anywhere, regardless of the facts or reasoning.

Now you are simply being silly, "long standing" meaning since just
before our invasion of Iraq?

NATO forces went to the sandbox for GW I... Bosnia/Kosovo...and
Afghanistan. **** they're still fighting along side us in Afghanistan.

Do you suggest that President Chirac was bribed?
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20040...3158-1229r.htm


Yes.

Ahhh, well you failed the reading test then.

Why is it so hard to contemplate that citizens and leaders of other
nations do not march lock-step with gwb & company? These same friends,
being France and Germany have consistantly stated that Saddam Hussein
was an evil piece of ****.

Hahahaaaa.... yeah, they 'state' all kinds of things... but at some point
you have to put your money where your mouth is, and it's then that it
becomes very clear exactly where people stand.

You have a very short attention span.

True or False: France participated militarily in Desert Storm
alongside the US?

Extra credit:The 10 x KC-135s of ERV 93, 10 x F1CRs of ER 33, 14 x
Mirage 2000s of EC 5, and 28 x Jaguars of EC 11 were from which
european nation?

True or False: France participated militarily in Bosnia/Kosovo
alongside the US?

Extra credit:The 2400 French troops of the French mechanized infantry
battalion still serving in the SFOR are from what european nation?

True or False: France participated militarily in Afghanistan
alongside the US?

Extra credit: Which nation do the 550 French combat troops serving in
Operation Enduring Freedom hail from?

Contemporaneous US corporate scandals (e.g. Enron, Vivendi, Worldcom)

Vivendi is a French corporation.

Fair enough, you got me there...and the 27 June 2003 arbitration case
over Messier's termination severance was held in New York...some say
NY is located in the US. However, Ken Lay (of Enron fame and impending
federal indictment) was one of gwb's major contributors.

LOL... the manufactured outrage over these things is appaling. I don't care
if prisoners are being 'abused'. It ain't torture, no matter how many UN
types and other liberals speak with red-faced indignation about the subject.

I'd suggest you should be mildly interested.

We are engaged in a war of images and and ideas surely as any armed
combat. The US must convince the collective consciousness of the
world, particularly the Arab world. The pictures of humiliation and
the memos saying, "OK Prez you don't have to abide by the Geneva
Conventions if you don't want to," do nothing to help us convince
arabs gwb isn't simply settling an old score or attacking the muslim
religion.

Tell me what we need them for. Please. Because they've already stated that
they won't send troops under any circumstances, and their respective
economies are completely stagnant, so I wouldnt count on much in the way of
money, either. So no troops and no cash. What do we need them for?

I agree that France will not send troops to fight, but France will be
sending police/gendarmerie to establish a police academy in a
soverieign Iraq (according to Dominique de Villepin in a Feb 2004
interview). I suspect your snapshot analysis of the french economy is
not an accurate predictor of future assistance.

Robey