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Guys, please....you find a French bashing America on the Internet and it becomes truth....Remember....everything we find out there is not automatically true! :lol:
Sure, in France, we do have American bashers all the way from our BEAUF (our white trash) to our politicians...media are also bending toward US bashing too, because it sells.
Now tell me the same doesn't apply here with the French bashers/boycotters (by the way in his book, O'Reilley said boycotting is anti-american....what's up with that???? :lol: ) and the anti-french propaganda...
First of, despite all this primitive c--p, the French are still siding with the US on issue they agree upon:
Afghanistan is one of the many and we just finished a joint training at Camp Lejeune (FL) involving 1000 French Marine + their equipment criss crossing the East Coast and practising landings....
For more info on which camp we are siding, take a look at the figures:
http://www.ambafrance-au.org/defence/pages/armed_forces_numbers.en.htm
Thank you.
As far as Iraq goes, some of you guys have a pretty amazing short term memory ....since the beginning, France did not buy the official reasons to go to war and it looks like they were right about it...come on! sure "the world is safer without Saddam" but it is not what the US wanted to create a coalition upon....and by the way, I am not the one saying that faulty intel was the reason for war....isn't it an American confession....even your left and right main newspaper are apologizing (by the way, what is this American thing and being "sorry"? say you are sorry, he did not, not enough, he did but does not mean it????
)....Historically, France has never been a US yaysayer, like the Brits who have no choice (no offense for the Brits!). That is what DeGaulle intended when he pushed a nuclear autonomy, jumped out of NATO integrated military command and kicked the US out in 66...Sorry, no hard feeling...we are latin and independent...
I detailed all this NATO stuff and cold war French position in another post and won't go on....
As far as mentions to oil deals....yadayadayada....O'Reilley was investigating and going to expose Chirac! still waiting while US corps are ripping off the US gov and over billing it millions at a time!
As far as Saddam's buddies, it is like Bin Laden....a close US ally when the US needed him to do the dirty job against Iran...hey, be happy guys, France sided you on this one....
I read about Rwanda too (god, this post goes everywhere....). Sure, France, as a privileged protector of the government that ended up being genocidal had some responsibilities but France was the only one that committed forces right away to try to stop it while the UN farted around and while Clinton's America looked the other side...remember Clinton traveling there with old sweet Madeleine to apology for sitting and watching while UN forces tried to help along with the French....
How many US supported Gov or puppets went amok and did crazy things? Shall we count, in Central America for example?
France banned religious symbols...yes! but the missing words are VISIBLE and PUBLIC! That is to say France banned VISIBLE religious symbols in PUBLIC schools!!! Just a hint....take your Hispanic "minority" and just imagine for a second that it is a MUSLIM "minority"...than you'd be in France shoes!!!
As far as the boycott goes, go ahead: none of you can enjoy a real Roquefort, good Bordeau or piece of Lingerie...but beware...Mack is Renault...Universal is Vivendi...and please don't get mad at the Germans too...Mercedes owns Chrysler and without the BMWs, AUDIs and VWs you'd be stuck with Ford or Japanese cars (Nissan is Renault too! :lol: Ho, and Kerry is almost French!)
Funny!
So let us calm down please and see if we can meet halfway.
Come on guys...I am here to help you