Seems like the French — among others — have more stones to stand up to Bush and his thugs than our own Democratic party. Sickening.
March 11, 2003 by Jane
Seems like the French — among others — have more stones to stand up to Bush and his thugs than our own Democratic party. Sickening.
get a load of this!
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries/index.html
extreme childishness.
how weird, did you copy off of me or is this just Put French Flags In Your Blog Day? i’m assuming it’s the latter and i’m just lucky i decided to do that today, too.
–sean
http://wiseanduncanny.com
Heh, yes it’s the latter. Some of my LJ friends have done the same today.
France is a great nation. It has flaws like any other, but standing up to the U. S.’s bullying always gets my respect. So few Western countries do it.
Un-Frenching Fries, I Can Almost Laugh At, But This?
Posted on Thu, Mar. 13, 2003
Bill Targets U.S. Troops Buried in France
JIM ABRAMS
Associated Press
WASHINGTON – In another swipe at the French, a Florida congresswoman has proposed that the government pay for families who might want to bring home from France the remains of Americans who fought and died in the world wars.
“I, along with many other Americans, do not feel that the French government appreciates the sacrifices men and women in uniform have made to defend the freedom that the French enjoy today,” Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite said in introducing legislation providing financial help for the reburial of veterans from the two world wars.
The legislation, which faces uncertain prospects, is the latest show of congressional frustration over French threats to veto a U.N. resolution that would open the way for U.S. military action against Iraq.
Earlier this week, the chairman of the House Administration Committee, Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, ordered that House restaurants change their menus to read “freedom fries” instead of French fries. French toast would also become freedom toast.
Lawmakers have also introduced bills to prevent France from participating in any postwar reconstruction projects.
Brown-Waite, a freshman Republican, said she decided to sponsor the bill after she was approached by a constituent who said he wanted to bring home his father, who was killed in World War II and buried in France.
Some 74,000 American war casualties are buried in France and Belgium, including 30,000 from World War I. The host nations, while retaining sovereignty over the burial grounds, have granted the land in perpetuity to the United States as military cemeteries.
Steve Thomas, a spokesman for the American Legion, said the veterans’ group would need some time to look at the legislation. He said the American Legion has always respected the wishes of the families concerning those who died in combat, but noted that “a lot of people may not want to repatriate their fallen loved ones, separating them from their comrades, to make a statement about the French government.”
Re: Un-Frenching Fries, I Can Almost Laugh At, But This?
That’s just fucking immoral.
Florida should be carpet bombed, but that’s just one woman’s opinion.
Re: Un-Frenching Fries, I Can Almost Laugh At, But This?
Who knows what condition our foreign policy or our economy would be in if Florida could print and count ballots, but I have no problem laying the dead bodies of Iraqi innocents at the feet of a cabal of Florida GOP hacks and a spineless Supreme Court majority. Al Gore wouldn’t have made a series of blunders this potentially catastrophic.