Kick his butt, Nik. Firstees?

Condi will get mad at Sarko.
Dialogue, dialogue, negotiations...

Go Sarko!

Trust, but Verify.

With no chin to block him, Sakorzy's hand can keep rising, and rising when he uses hand gestures to show how pissed off he is at Assad.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning

Sarkozy: "...You must use all the means and abilities at your disposal to influence the attainment of this goal!” What the heck?
Why not simply tell him to butt out?
that's what needs to happen.

Forward:
Canada elected Harper.
France elected Sarkozy.

Backward:
UK has Brown
Australia rejected Major

Up in the air:
United States of America elects ___?

Sarkozy, I've got your avatar right here, mon frere!

But he's a British trained physician.

A Doctor!

DOCTOR!

Finally a French man using his balls for more than just on a mistress...

Sarkozy wants action? How about more actions like the September 6 raid? That certainly got Assad's attention.

Airstrikes against terrorists also get the thugs' attention. Losing the proxy forces aplenty are sure to focus the mind.

Of course, Assad now says that he had the opportunity to buy nukes on the black market, but chose not to.

Why buy 'em when you're getting 'em for free with Iranian and North Korean assistance. /sarc

Assad continues to destablize Lebanon, which is why Sarkozy is slamming Syria. France has a long relationship with the Levant, and they don't like how things have gone of late.

“I have reached the end of the road with Assad. Now words will not suffice, I want actions.”

That is so un-French.

“I have reached the end of the road with Assad. Now words will not suffice, I want actions.”

And then he ran away.

re: #11 coquimbojoe

Ah, but have you seen Sarkozy's latest?

Nice talk.

How long till he holds the Palis to the same standards?

Assad won't go away, even if Sarko taunts him again.

Viva Sarkozy.

Who woulda thunk we'd reach a day when the French are tougher than the Americans.

Excuse my French, but didn't we invite fucking Assad to the fucking Annapolis meeting recently?

re: #11 coquimbojoe

Lately he's been banging models AND calling dictators on their shit.

re: #16 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The French could hardly do any worse than the Americans when it comes to Palestine.

Too bad the Fwench don't have any muscle to back up these "tough" words. Unless they plan to deploy their riotous "youths" to the middle-east.

His actions are usually followed by autopsies.

Sarkozy isn't just banging that babe. He asked her to marry him.

re: #21 Pro-Bush Canuck

re: #16 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The French could hardly do any worse than the Americans when it comes to Palestine.

True.

#18 Vive might be the way to allez.

Bruni is a Mossad agent.

Like Monica.

re: #21 Pro-Bush Canuck

Excuse me, but WTF is Palestine?

/sarc

This is truly amazing.

Would you think even just two years ago, we would have seen a headline like this attributed to a current French President?

re: #11 coquimbojoe

Finally a French man using his balls for more than just on a mistress...

Speaking of which, being a jewish man of average heigh myself, I am glad to see the little guy is going out with a tall gorgeous ex-model already!

#1 mikeytrix

Another newb about to get a post deleted.

OT

Finally! A use for Hillary's fat ass.

re: #11 coquimbojoe

Finally a French man using his balls for more than just on a mistress...

You know, with a backbone like that, I'd even pay for the Sark-man's mistress. Just keep saying what Monsewer Chirac would never say. Refreshing.

#1 mikeytrix

since June, 2004? C'mon.

"Action you want...action you get, Husam...go assassinate someone this weekend and give Mr. Sarkozy what he wants"

re: #29 formercorpsman

You're very right. Now, let's see what he does.

re: #36 Dianna

Your killing my buzz.

Why should Assad care. After all he let thousands of "insurgents" enter into Iraq to kill American troops without facing any consequences. So why should he fear France. He knows France may bark but it will never bite.

I am LOVIN' having a jooo runnin' Frogland! The potential for a great franco-US relationship has greatly improved!

go sarko! We love you dude!

re: #8 Pro-Bush Canuck

Forward:
Canada elected Harper.
France elected Sarkozy.

Backward:
UK has Brown
Australia rejected Major

Up in the air:
United States of America elects ___?

I like how you used the word 'has' as opposed to 'elected'. It's importnat since he was never elected, and what's more, his government seems to be accelerating at 1 gee...straight down i.e. is in freefall. My estimation is that the time until they call a general election is inversely proportional to the percentage of the popular vote they'll end up with.
At least I hope so.

“But I am telling you,” he was quoted by the London-based newspaper as saying. “I have reached the end of the road with Assad. Now words will not suffice, I want actions.”

Oh No! Not the dreaded actions threat!

That means he getting on the red phone to the UN today and asking them to give Syria their super- duper extra cruel UN sanctions. Ooooh!

Assad: I turned down an offer to buy nuclear weapons

Syrian President Bashar Assad turned down an offer to buy nuclear missiles from Pakistani weapons smugglers in 2001, he was quoted as saying Wednesday.

In an interview with the Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Assad said that the smugglers introduced themselves as envoys of Abdul Qadeer Khan, considered the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.

/see, he's not such a bad guy

OT

Israel Rejects Hamas Truce Offer

Hamas offered Israel the truce a day after 13 Palestinian militants, including two top commanders, were killed in a wave of Israeli air strikes in Gaza. Israel launched the raids in response to daily Palestinian rocket attacks.

Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said the ball is in Israel's court.

Hamad told Israel Radio that it takes two parties to make a truce, and Israel should take the first step. He said if Israel stops incursions, assassinations and air strikes, the Palestinians would halt rocket attacks.

But after months of rocket fire on its border communities, Israel is no hurry for a truce, especially after inflicting serious damage on militants in the latest air strikes.

Israeli parliamentarian Ephraim Sneh is a former general in the Labor Party, which is part of the coalition government. He said a truce, or "hudna" as it is called in Arabic, would benefit Hamas, but not Israel.

"A hudna is [a] trap for Israel," he said, "and it is a timeout for Hamas to become stronger, to receive more arms, more money, more explosives, and it is nothing that Israel should endorse."

Well if he is now fed up with Syria, the only thing left to do is for France to surrender to them.

re: #15 lawhawk

re: #11 coquimbojoe

Ah, but have you seen Sarkozy's latest?

That doesn't hurt either.

re: #43 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

OT

Israel Rejects Hamas Truce Offer

Hamas offered Israel the truce a day after 13 Palestinian militants, including two top commanders, were killed in a wave of Israeli air strikes in Gaza. Israel launched the raids in response to daily Palestinian rocket attacks.
Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said the ball is in Israel's court.

Hamad told Israel Radio that it takes two parties to make a truce, and Israel should take the first step. He said if Israel stops incursions, assassinations and air strikes, the Palestinians would halt rocket attacks.

But after months of rocket fire on its border communities, Israel is no hurry for a truce, especially after inflicting serious damage on militants in the latest air strikes.

Israeli parliamentarian Ephraim Sneh is a former general in the Labor Party, which is part of the coalition government. He said a truce, or "hudna" as it is called in Arabic, would benefit Hamas, but not Israel.

"A hudna is [a] trap for Israel," he said, "and it is a timeout for Hamas to become stronger, to receive more arms, more money, more explosives, and it is nothing that Israel should endorse."

Israel REJECTED TRUCE offer?

ISRAEL. OBSTACLE TO PEACE.

re: #37 formercorpsman

Sorry. Didn't mean to.

I wonder if he will send Les Kepiblancs to Lebanon.
Say what you will about the French, the Legion Entrangere knows how to kick ass and take names.

Ok, Sarko is fed up with Assad. That's all well and good, but what are you going to do about it? This is what Assad is doing about it,

Syrian and Iranian Axis Terrorize their opposition

You would have to be deluded to think Syria was going to change the central element of the foreign policy they have steadily pursued for 60 plus years just because you invited them to Annapolis.

re: #46 Ben Hur

LOL A truce!

haha.. "please stop laying the smack down on we poor terrorists!"

Uh oh.
Looks like Sarkozy is hinting at Double Secret Probation . . . that little-known codicil in the U.N. constitution.

re: #2 Poitiers-Lepanto

I don't think this means much at all. It's a small bone. I think his comments about the 'critical' need for a shiny, new Palestinian state are more instructive.

Its good to see Sarkozy stand up to that thug, Assad. I hope he keeps the heat on him.

re: #40 Infidelsalwayswin

South Korea just elected a new conservative Prime Minister, Lee Myung-bak.

My God, a politician who understands the concept of an Islamic "hudna"! I guess most Isreali politicians SHOULD understand that by now...

re: #46 Ben Hur

re: #53 crusader1145

Its good to see Sarkozy stand up to that thug, Assad. I hope he keeps the heat on him.

If Assad had a chin, Sarko wouldn't reach it.

OT: Now I must choose-retail therapy or buy wine or other gift for boss.

HMMM

It is kinda ironic. It would appear that many conservatives are not only happy with the new French President's foreign policy but also his choice in female companionship ( yeah I am pretty jealous also ); However, both Rudy and Fred have gotten grief about their love lives? Go figure.

Sarkozy is going to piss off the Muslims in his country. He knew this going in. But if he holds firm, it could signal a new direction for Europe, one that is pro-western, and especially pro-American. I pray he succeeds.

re: #24 Pastorius

Sure fire way to stop the banging.

/just kidding LOLOLOL

re: #54 Kenneth

re: #40 Infidelsalwayswin

South Korea just elected a new conservative Prime Minister, Lee Myung-bak.

Short ribs, Kimchi and OB beer for lunch!

re: #61 Colonel Panik

Delicious!

re: #57 WriterMom

You buy a gift for your boss? What a brown-noser!

Sarkozy on urgent need for SHINY NEW PALESTINIAN STATE WITHIN ONE YEAR!

SNIP:

That state would extend 'from Gaza to the West Bank to East Jerusalem,' he said.

Sarkozy issued a challenged to the radical Islamic group Hamas, which governs Gaza.

'Peace will not be made without Gaza,' he said. 'And peace will not be made with groups that do not recognize Israel. This is unacceptable.'

The French president also called on Israel to immediately halt the constructions of colonies on Palestinian territory.

'It is time to put an end to the occupation,' Sarkozy said. 'It is time to allow an entire people to regain their dignity.'
Sarkozy proposed, 'when the time is ripe,' the deployment of an international police force to support Palestinian security forces in keeping the peace in the region.

re: #64 Kenneth

And proud of it.

re: #38 Van Impe

Why should Assad care. After all he let thousands of "insurgents" enter into Iraq to kill American troops without facing any consequences. So why should he fear France. He knows France may bark but it will never bite.

You are so so right! I mean when we think of what Syria has gotten away with ESPECIALLY post 9-11, Bush doctrine... we should be ashamed.

Consequences for what they have done, nada! Not one except a weak toothless condemnation here a weak one there.

Assad laughs.

particularly over its intervention in Lebanese politics and its alleged involvement in political assassinations in the country.

I commend Sarkozy however the French position in Lebanon has always been an important one so I take what he said with a grain of salt. Assad should have been dealt with long ago and I don't mean by the feckless French who put their interests above all others. Having said that, I see we are not far behind in that department but this I will leave for another rant.

re: #16 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

How long till he holds the Palis to the same standards?

NEVER. That is different you know/ The litmus test that it is different belongs in those LIARS IN HIGH PLACES who go to any extreme at the expense of Israel to appease the greater Arab/Islamodogshit world.

nice talk

...still waiting for the walk. The walk is what matters.

re: #52 WriterMom

re: #2 Poitiers-Lepanto

I don't think this means much at all. It's a small bone. I think his comments about the 'critical' need for a shiny, new Palestinian state are more instructive.

True true. But considering HOW lost all the European Countries are in their appeasement policies...this is a little precious gem...

/ and he DID smash the riots some weeks ago

re: #65 WriterMom

Sarkozy on urgent need for SHINY NEW PALESTINIAN STATE WITHIN ONE YEAR!

SNIP:

That state would extend 'from Gaza to the West Bank to East Jerusalem,' he said.

Sarkozy issued a challenged to the radical Islamic group Hamas, which governs Gaza.

'Peace will not be made without Gaza,' he said. 'And peace will not be made with groups that do not recognize Israel. This is unacceptable.'

The French president also called on Israel to immediately halt the constructions of colonies on Palestinian territory.

'It is time to put an end to the occupation,' Sarkozy said. 'It is time to allow an entire people to regain their dignity.'
Sarkozy proposed, 'when the time is ripe,' the deployment of an international police force to support Palestinian security forces in keeping the peace in the region.

And just as I was about to raise a glass of Grey Goose to Monsieur President. (well, tonight, anyway)

re: #63 taxfreekiller

Some one link him to taxfreekillers "space rock falling" idea.
A well aimed large hunk of rock sent into orbit say around Saturn, swing around it, high speed entry over Du'mask-us, air burst, per.

[Link: www.sandia.gov...]

Centauri style. "We're not going to invade Narn, we're going to flatten it."

re: #68 Poitiers-Lepanto

Yes. He has some really good points. But it seems no matter what progress is made on other loosely 'Islamic' issues, the Cult of Palestinianism still rules supreme.

Smash Yoot Riots >>>good
Be Pro-American >>>good
Continue to Bow to Cult of Palestine-Cum-Eradicate Jewish State Policies>>SUCKS

re: #65 WriterMom

Sarkozy on urgent need for SHINY NEW PALESTINIAN STATE WITHIN ONE YEAR!

Why not. Why should he not be any different pushing for a state in reward for the slaughter of Jews. I most assuredly expect less of France than I do of the US. (or I did anyway)

{WriterMomala} Do you mail your coffee cake ; - ?

Newly elected South Korean PM

Lee has pledged to take a more critical view of Seoul's engagement with North Korea and seek closer U.S. ties. Efforts to end North Korea's nuclear weapons ambitions stand at a critical juncture, with the communist country set to disclose all its programs for eventual dismantlement by a year-end deadline.

Lee, a former Seoul mayor who turned 66 on election day, has led the race for months. His victory ends a decade of liberal rule in the South, during which the country embarked on unprecedented reconciliation with rival North Korea that has led to restored trade and travel across the heavily armed frontier dividing the peninsula.

re: #68 Poitiers-Lepanto

re: #52 WriterMom

re: #2 Poitiers-Lepanto

I don't think this means much at all. It's a small bone. I think his comments about the 'critical' need for a shiny, new Palestinian state are more instructive.

True true. But considering HOW lost all the European Countries are in their appeasement policies...this is a little precious gem...

/ and he DID smash the riots some weeks ago

The problem with the comments is that they demonstrate fundamentally little has really changed. When the European countries engage in diplomacy, despite some toughing rhetoric, they are still focused on the carrots and no stick. Setting a timetable does nothing to advance the issue or effectively hold Hamas / Fatah / Palestinians accountable for their inability to manage Gaza let alone a larger state.

Showing the ability to rein in the violance and effectively run Gaza should be the next step on the timetable towards being responsible enough for a state. But the Europeans don't appear to be willing to make that stand or provide a stick to Hamas / Fatah / Palestinians if they fail to change from their present course and actions.

Sarko definitely has better taste in honeys than did Bubba.

From Bashar Assad I would be demanding inaction. Every time the chinless despot acts, innocent people die.

re: #72 selpaw

Selpaw..see my above. I have no expectations of the Fwench. I am pleasantly surprised that Sarkozy was elected. I think it's great that he's getting some action, too. But, I have no plans to Celebrate France because they are deeply committed to the appeasement monkey syndrome. Like I said-no matter what 'progress' is made, there is still a fundamental commitment to destruction of Israel lite through the pro-Palestinian utterances and fat, whopping, unending, anti-semitic, stupifyingly dhimmified JIZYAHPOLOOZAH that ends up being used to KILL US EVERY DAY.

Colonies?

re: #78 Ben Hur

Colonies.

I'd like to shove that word up his colon.

Oh dear.

Did I really say that?

I am going shopping.

Can we loan Sarkozy some JDAMs?

re: #75 Occasional Reader

Bubba went Kosher. LOL.

re: #77 WriterMom

Agree fully!

“I have reached the end of the road with Assad. Now words will not suffice, I want actions.”

Yeah. . .and what you going to do about it, Frenchy? Embargo snail shipments to Syria?

I mean its nice to see the tough talk, but somehow I don't think Assad is exactly quaking in his boots here.

re: #80 WriterMom

Oh dear.

Did I really say that?

I am going shopping.

That reminds me, I gotta go print your pound cake recipe.

heh heh heh...

The NDP: Democracy and the transgendered

Micheline Montreuil, a Quebec lawyer and former professor won the NDP nomination earlier this year to be the party’s candidate in a Quebec City riding. But recently, the party’s Quebec election planning committee voted to terminate her candidacy.

Besides being a former professor, Ms. Montreuil is also a former man. Now she is considering taking legal action against the socialist party for discriminating against her. She has previously been successful against the Canadian Forces and the National Bank of Canada before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is suits brought for discriminating against her on the basis of her sexuality.

In true political fashion, the NDP denies that her termination has anything to do with her being transgendered. According to the election committee, she was dumped because she was not a “team player”. Whatever possessed the NDP to think that a man who becomes a woman would make a good team player is a matter that can be left for another day.

Irony.

Wish me luck! I'm just a lone, suburban Jewish WriterMom braving the downtown hordes in prime-time Christmas retail hell.

If I'm not back on the threads this afternoon-you'll know what happened!

FREE CORSICA!

FREE THE BASQUES!

(then maybe start talking about other people's probs, dawg)

re: #50 astronmr20

re: #46 Ben Hur

LOL A truce!

haha.. "please stop laying the smack down on we poor terrorists freedom fighters!"

There, fixed that for ya!

re: #86 Kenneth

All I have to say about this is:

Bwa.
Ha.
Ha.

re: #88 Ben Hur

FREE STEYN!

re: #86 Kenneth

NDP = DFC

Oh! My! G-D!

Here's Micheline Montreuil's website (see my post above). She looks like Rush Limbaugh in a wig and a dress. I can't imagine why the NDP didn't want her to run for them.

ROTFL!

re: #29 formercorpsman

This is truly amazing.

Would you think even just two years ago, we would have seen a headline like this attributed to a current French President?

In fact just under two years ago President Chirac threatened to use French nukes in retaliation to a terrorist attack.

So its not like tough talk has never come out of France before.

But again, talk is cheap.

re: #32 maddogg

OT

Finally! A use for Hillary's fat ass.

It gets 250 MPR (Miles per Rosie).

re: #63 taxfreekiller

Some one link him to taxfreekillers "space rock falling" idea.
A well aimed large hunk of rock sent into orbit say around Saturn, swing around it, high speed entry over Du'mask-us, air burst, per.

[Link: www.sandia.gov...]

Heinlein has been there and done that. In "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". Mike the sentient computer had them lob steel encased rocks at the earth. Was pretty effective. Nuclear like explosion without the radiation. Now instead of using moon based catapults, we load the shuttle with a RAM covered rock with thrusters, put it in orbit around the moon and when the time is right, blow the RAM covering so it can be "discovered" to be on a direct collision course with planet Earth and Mecca. Since they worship a rock from space (or so I understand, correct me if I am wrong) it would have to be the WILL of ALLAH that Mecca be destroyed by another rock from space. Poetic justice, no?

PARIS — A Paris court on Wednesday convicted five former inmates at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of having links to terrorist groups, while acquitting a sixth man.

The five were convicted of "criminal association with a terrorist enterprise," a broad charge frequently used in France. The court handed them one-year prison sentences.

The verdict had originally been expected in September 2006 but was postponed. At the time, the court said it needed to seek more information about secret interrogations of the suspects by French intelligence officers at the American base.

The suspects' lawyers had complained that the men were questioned by agents of the DST counterintelligence service outside the framework of international law. Information about the interrogations did not surface until the trial was already under way, when Liberation newspaper published a classified document about them.

Seven French citizens were captured in or near Afghanistan by U.S. forces in late 2001, held at Guantanamo and then handed over to French authorities in 2004 and 2005. One was freed immediately and found to have no ties to terrorism, while the others were released later as investigations continued into their cases.

The men all insisted they are innocent. Their lawyers asked for all to be acquitted.

I wonder if we could get Sarkozy to run for U.S. President. This guy is better than the whole crop of present candidates for President combined. You would never hear language like this from Bush and that unprincipled automaton, Condoleezza Rice, when talking about this henchman of Iran who is rapidly destroying Lebanon.

Too bad he is a foreign national. John Bolton would be just as good though.

An additional link and excerpt.
[Link: www.space4peace.org...]

2. Kinetic Energy and Hypervelocity Weapons

Kinetic energy weapons, of which hypervelocity weapons are a subtype, are historically the most common forms of space weaponry.

As suggested above, given the tremendous speeds at which objects travel in orbit, on the order of 4.7 miles per second in low-earth orbit, just about anything properly aimed could become a weapon even without the use of an explosive warhead.

This is true because such an object's speed, including those of very small masses, gives it tremendous kinetic energy for impact. [n88]

One U.S. kinetic energy weapon, originally tested as a missile interceptor, could equally serve as an ASAT. Known as the Homing Overlay Experiment (HOE), the weapon, once boosted into space, unfurls a 4.5 meter radial "net" that is wrapped tightly behind the nose sensor. The net increases the lethal radius of the homing and kill vehicle.

Successful testing in 1983 and 1984 showed the weapon capable of homing in and destroying a dummy warhead in space using a long-wavelength infrared sensor. [n89]

A program currently under development in the U.S. is simply called the "KE ASAT" (kinetic energy ASAT). The system envisions using a large Mylar "shroud" to impact the target object. [n90]

Though it will disable its target object by force of impact as will many other kinetic energy ASATs, this system is unique in that the shroud is intended to minimize the creation of a large quantity of resulting space debris normally associated with kinetic energy weapon impacts. [n91]

The railgun is another type of kinetic energy weapon that accelerates a projectile toward selected targets at hypervelocity speeds. Because the railgun will use electromagnetic forces to accelerate its projectiles, it is an
"electromagnetic" weapon of sorts. However, it is distinct from the electromagnetic weaponry discussed above in that the final method of destruction is a kinetic impact rather than an electromagnetic force itself. Testing in the
U.S. has resulted in the electromagnetic acceleration of tantalum discs to speeds of eleven kilometers per second. [n92] Though not yet developed as a weapon, such railguns could be stationed in outer space.

An additional space-based kinetic energy weapon has been proposed but not yet developed. Though not an ASAT, the weapon has been conceived for use against terrestrial targets. It would capitalize on the tremendous speed of long rods made of depleted uranium orbiting in space. Remotely commanded to reenter the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds, the rods could be precision-guided to
targets in the air or on the surface of the earth. Their special shape and materials would allow for survival on reentry into the atmosphere with little prospect for collateral damage on impact. The ability to call down such objects from space at hypervelocity speeds would allow them to penetrate hundreds of feet into the earth. Strategically, it would also offer the attacker the
"ultimate stealth" and maximum surprise. [n93]

A final example in the kinetic energy category is the Gun Launch to Space (GLTS) project. The project envisions a large artillery-type structure capable of launching projectiles hundreds of miles. The most notable example of rudimentary technology on which the GLTS might be based is the Iraqi "supergun," employing a barrel 172 feet long and capable of propelling 114 pound projectiles to distances of 465 miles. [n94] Although principally conceived as a system for boosting operational payloads to orbit, the GLTS project has numerous potential applications, including service as an ASAT. [n95]

Sarkozy can sure talk the talk, but I have seen nothing to suggest that he can walk the walk.
By the way, what risk did he really take by talking to Assad? It seems to me that he was just doing some risk-free grandstanding for domestic consumption, since the French still long for the good old days when they actually had some influence in Lebanon.
SO SHOW US THE MONEY, FROGMAN!

A Maginot Line in the sand, as it were.

Backbone is so sexy.

My new favorite bumpersticker:

Government size does matter.

I am hoping Sarko is just getting started. He seems to be the only world leader to make these sort of public distinctions on the matter. God knows our administration and state department are too weak to do so.

Don't stop there Sarko... PLEASE give the "palestinians" a dose, too!

re: #102 DistantThunder

Exactly. The smaller the better.

re: #19 Pastorius

Who woulda thunk we'd reach a day when the French are tougher than the Americans.

Excuse my French, but didn't we invite fucking Assad to the fucking Annapolis meeting recently?

A nice start from Sarko - but so far - just words. Talk is cheap.

re: #100 sparrowlake

What would you actually have him do?

In many cases, I believe that half the battle is exposing these despots to the rest of the world. There is no actual intervention that France could perform in this case.

the silence has been deafening. It's quite refreshing to have a world leader speak the truth about this neckless asshole.

I never dreamed that I would admire a French President more then an American President, but Nicolas Sarkozy has my vote!

I'm tired of the Bush team's bumbling policies...

Maximu§
3/11 ACR

Sarko is the Anti Chirac

Hell yeah it's action time, Sarko style.
Now that's leadership. (looking at you Bush and US State Dept.)

re: #63 taxfreekiller Yeah! Go TFK! Go Scandia!

What happened with the riots? After Sarko returned from China, poof, news about them vanished. Did he do a successful crackdown the MSM did not want to report?

Links?

re: #111 Colonel Panik Sorry, no links, but CNN (of all of the MSM, CNN!) did report that "heavily reinforced police" put down the riots and apparently some cops and A LOT of yutes were hurt.
Other than that brief mention on CNN (I was in a doctor's office waiting room and couldn't reach the channel changer and they had CNN on!) I haven't heard anything about it!

BTW, for all y'all who don't think France COULD do something about it - making the perhaps rash statement that the French would want to DO something about it - their armed forces are better equipped, led and supplied better than any other Euro nation, except possibly Great Britain.
Guys I know who have served with French troops say they are truly top drawer soldiers.

re: #84 looking closely

“I have reached the end of the road with Assad. Now words will not suffice, I want actions.”

Yeah. . .and what you going to do about it, Frenchy? Embargo snail shipments to Syria?

I mean its nice to see the tough talk, but somehow I don't think Assad is exactly quaking in his boots here.

Exactly.

What action does Sarko intend to take to back up his big talk? Unless he is prepared to do something to actually force Assad to get out of Lebanon, this is nothing more than another piece of Euro performance art. Granted, it's a little bit more forceful than the typical Euro performance art, but without teeth, it's just as meaningless as everything else that has gone before it.

Geh! The frogs are showing more backbone than the Brits and the Yanks! When should we expect the Rains of Toads and days of Loud Flatulant Noises?

Sarko is trying to have his croissant, and eat it too.

He's 'a friend of Israel', he says, 'but also of the Arab world'.

Okey dokey.

See how well your 'friends in the Arab world' do things in your interest.

re: #116 Maine's Michael

Sarko is trying to have his croissant, and eat it too.

ROFL. You're too much. I made a similar point upstream, but yours is funnier.

We still have to see what happens when France "loses patience" !
Maybe the condemnation will consist of three lines instead of 2?

re: #93 Kenneth Make sure you flip through the pages! An ugly man cannot become a pretty woman. lololololol

re: #112 realwest

re: #111 Colonel Panik Sorry, no links, but CNN (of all of the MSM, CNN!) did report that "heavily reinforced police" put down the riots and apparently some cops and A LOT of yutes were hurt.
Other than that brief mention on CNN (I was in a doctor's office waiting room and couldn't reach the channel changer and they had CNN on!) I haven't heard anything about it!

Hmmm...interesting. Maybe Dissident Frogman will have something on it, I haven't visited his site in a while.

I'm beginning to like Nicky.

#113 realwest

I bunked with the 3/rd French P/R and went to their Commando School in Neu Breisach. Good times,,,good times.

Could it be that in France they remember that Hezbollah Attacked the French in 1983 as well has our guys, and that this attack was funded directed and aided from Syria and Iran?

Big words, but that is all it will be no doubt. I really do hope he proves me wrong.