Re: French Join In on Anti-France Bandwagon

"Christian Feldhaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> CB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > That's quite an argument. You've heard of the stories that the French
are
> > pissed at their government for being such cowards in Humanitarian issues
of
> > conscience
>
> So >the French are pissed< merely because an article in Fox News claims
> that? <g> All the source that you presented says is that several books
> recently written by French authors question or criticize the French
> government's policy. What could be wrong with or surprising about that?
> Several books recently written by Americans deal with the US war in
> Iraq, and the constantly changing reasons presented to justify it, in a
> pretty critical way -- have not seen a conclusion such as "Americans
> Join In on Anti-US Bandwagon" (cf. your Subject header) yet, though ;-)
>
> > but because you dislike the messenger simply go back to what the
> > French do so well
>
> Like call a human being a >worm<, you mean? Ah no, that was the American
> owned British tabloid "Sun" which earlier this week, once again, used
> that expression when referring to Chirac ...
>
> Christian

French fried: From its economy to its cinema and cafés, France is losing
that certain je ne sais quoi
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/richard/chesnoff1.asp

PARIS The French are finally figuring out what most everyone else has known
for years: La Belle France ain't so belle any more.

French President Jacques Chirac and his musketeers may still swagger about
the glory of France and the righteousness of its "independant" (read: anti-
American) foreign policy, but the French public sees little but gloom
staring it in the face.


Consider this: The current unemployment rate is double-digit; economic
growth is at a dying snail's pace and a red-faced France recently had to beg
the European Union to excuse its steady GDP deficit. No one sees much hope
for improvement.

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