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ArVa wrote in message
... Irreverance and objective criticism are fine. You can say whatever you want about Chirac's policy or even the man himself, I don't care. He's a public man, a politician, and therefore is exposed to that kind of treatment as it goes with the job. What I can't stand is the concept of bashing an entire country and its population with specious and tasteless arguments just because you don't agree (or not even understand) its position. ArVa Yet I bet you've never opened your trap when a blithering Frenchmen accuse Americans of riding horses all day and shooting at the ceiling with their six guns. -- Scott -------- "Interestingly, we started to lose this war only after the embedded reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq, there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and destruction and quagmire..." Ann Coulter http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/091703.htm |
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Cub Driver wrote in message
... The Wall Street Journal noted this morning that the reason UN peacekeeping forces are more and more drawn from poor nations is that they alone have the surplus troops for this sort of mission--troops who moreover are thrifty to maintain and proud of the job. With the exception of Britain's, European armies have been drawn down to the point where they are essentially useless. From what I've read earlier, that would also appear to be true of Canada's. So not only is the U.S. the "sole superpower," it is very nearly also the only democracy with an army. Think of NATO's war against Yugoslavia. All of continental Europe couldn't manage a war against a small Balkan nation, without the U.S. and Britain to do the heavy lifting. Exactly right. All the bed wetters in that smelly nation beginning with "F" keep whining about the hyper-power. The truth is the US forces are about half of what they were during or just after the Reagan years. As you note, it's less that the US has rushed ahead of everyone else, we've just withered a lot less quickly while we've seriously upgraded key components. -- Scott -------- "Interestingly, we started to lose this war only after the embedded reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq, there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and destruction and quagmire..." Ann Coulter http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/091703.htm |
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Alan Minyard wrote in message
... So France and the French support terrorists? Not terribly surprising. Al Minyard The French hardly miss an opportunity to support terrorists. -- Scott -------- "Interestingly, we started to lose this war only after the embedded reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq, there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and destruction and quagmire..." Ann Coulter http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/091703.htm |
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Gunnar wrote in message
... Could it be that we'l like for you to be of a higher standard than the rest... ? The only moral justification for us ( that is the vestern world ) being "better" than the rest is that we are in fact BETTER than the rest of the world ! And better means higher standards in treatment, letter of the law etc. The truth is the arrogant Europeans aren't holding the US to a higher standard, they set perfection as the minimal acceptable level of action for the US and expect nothing from what they see as the "inferior peoples" any where else. That's the most generous interpretation. The rest of us know that the complaints of some of the Europeans and all of the US liberals is aimed at undermining our resolve to do the hard tasks. They remind me more of spoiled and lazy teenagers that bitch and moan when mom and dad don't buy toys for them fast enough. Remember all the "what about North Korea" just before the Iraq war? All of the usual suspects were certain action in Iraq should be put on hold while the DPRK was managed. Once the first bomb fell in Iraq the usual suspects forgot all about North Korea, proving that all the Europeans want is a good reason to complain. If the Europeans wanted to solve these important problems they wouldn't have spent much of the last 12 years helping Saddam get around sanctions and easing the UN to just dropping the issue rather than solving the problem. In short, solve a few problems the way you want them solved rather than just complaining that the people that are working the problem aren't working it the way you want. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule of going on strike and going on vacation to respond. -- Scott -------- "Interestingly, we started to lose this war only after the embedded reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq, there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and destruction and quagmire..." Ann Coulter http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/091703.htm |
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Simon Robbins wrote in message ... *You* don't see that because you don't look, either that or because CNN doesn't tell you. Though how about taking a look at how China (a billion Communists no less) is a "favoured trading partner" of the US? How about how the US ran to the aid of oppressive Saudi Arabia and totalitarian Kuwait in 1991 also? People in glass houses and all that... I'm sure the Europeans issue memos and hold conferences on all these issues, I was asking about actions from the Europeans. Tell me how does pointing out past US action demonstrate that Europe is doing anything on these topics? Remember that was the point. Typical really, they must teach only one thing in schools over there, how to complain about the US. Did Robert Mugabe feel sufficiently scolded for his actions by being invited to dinner with Chirac? -- Scott -------- "Interestingly, we started to lose this war only after the embedded reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq, there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and destruction and quagmire..." Ann Coulter http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/091703.htm |
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Franck wrote in message
... You should,be thankful that the major world power is not Russia, China, or France. Are you sure US is better ? ..... Millions of immigrants can't be wrong. Remember our security problem is too many people want to come to the US, while the fences of tyrants keep people in. -- Scott -------- "Interestingly, we started to lose this war only after the embedded reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq, there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and destruction and quagmire..." Ann Coulter http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/091703.htm |
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George Shirley wrote in message
... Dammit folks, can you just resist responding to the Western Europeans for a while? My killfile is so full of French addresses it sounds like a herd of frogs in here. George Be grateful that smell doesn't transmit across the net. -- Scott -------- "Interestingly, we started to lose this war only after the embedded reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq, there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and destruction and quagmire..." Ann Coulter http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/091703.htm |
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Tank Fixer wrote in message k.net... France has no culture, Sure they have a culture, a culture of surrender to evil and resistance to the US. -- Scott -------- "Interestingly, we started to lose this war only after the embedded reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq, there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and destruction and quagmire..." Ann Coulter http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/091703.htm |
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Frank Vaughan wrote in message
... **** the French. Please don't, it only seems to make more of them. -- Scott -------- "Interestingly, we started to lose this war only after the embedded reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq, there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and destruction and quagmire..." Ann Coulter http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/091703.htm |
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