How Do You Say Disgusting In French?

Buried on page 2 of an overly long NY Times article. And these are the people we are supposed to worry about being judged by? I don't think so.

In Beirut, Iran’s foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, whose country is a main supporter of Hezbollah, arrived from Syria and was dining at the Iranian Embassy on Monday with Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy of France, a French diplomat said. It was unclear what they discussed, but Mr. Douste-Blazy said earlier Monday that Iran was “a great country” that “plays a stabilizing role in the region,” a view at odds with the American one.

On a better note - John of Blogs of War is now blogging the war for the Houston Chronicle. Check it out!

Here's the latest war news from the Middle East: Pajamas Media, or read a few regional blogs. I like to check the JP headlines, as well.

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[Warwatcher]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK7q3IFvGXU&eurl=

A short film of the rockets being fired from the building in that area that were bombed.

The real story. Scroll sown after watching the film in full and read some more.

[Fausta]

How Do You Say Disgusting In French?
OIL, that's how.

[Rick]

Everything about the French is disgusting. You must realize though that they are groveling in hopes that Iran does not take their stinking country away from them.

[Gary Maxwell]

How do you say disgusting in French, you ask. I believe its pronounced Chirac.

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How do you say disgusting in French??
Statue of liberty.... Their gift, that`s how it is spelled.

[Rick]

@ those were far different French people than their descendants are. Far, far different.

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Rick The same applies to a lot of poeple.

[Rick]

It applies to most people, but the subject is the French

[Rick]

It applies to most people, but the subject is the French

[annie]

Rick

The French, with the exception of a very few, have always been the same.

If you take them to war with you expect them to be the last to arrive, and the first to leave!!

Usually due to the fact that they will have surrendered at the earliest opportunity, or will have talked themselves out of staying!!

'Compromise' is not merely a word to them, it is their whole world, even if it means letting the enemy take over, what will it matter. Their reasoning, and their past experience, will have told them to sit back and let the US and Brits go and sort it all out, and let them do and die for freedom.

And you know what, they are absolutely right, along with all those other nations in Europe and around the world, with their token responses of a few troops here and there to aid the cause.

I say, there ought to be a boot up the backside to the lot of them!!

[Rick]

Annie, I was referring to the revolutionary (theirs, not ours) and Napoleonic era when the frogs took over a big ole huge chunk of the world. After that it seems the laisiez fare frogs sprung from the mud

[old trooper]

Napoleon has been dead for a very long time. The current French dog is a nasty ass ankle biting poodle. That Dog just ain`t gonna hunt.

I have seen Paris and experienced all of their rudeness and arrogance over the years. They do not like being reminded that tens of thousands of Americans, Brits and Canadians spilled gallons of blood on 6.6.1944 on their beaches to Liberate them.

The current French dog has too many Islamic fleas on it`s back, an economy that is 'circling the bowl', a populace that was promised cradle to grave welfare and a huge chip on it`s shoulder because none of it`s past leadership, and present, can solve their domestic problems.

We have excellent wines and cheese made here in the USA. We have bicycle races here in the USA. I no longer buy Michelin tires. We were not caught with our hands in the cookie jar on the Oil for Food UN scandal and their finest armed forces are indeed the Foreign Legion.

If you have ever visited their former colonies you would know how irresponsible they have been in leaving their "legacy". Algeria is a hellhole as is all of their former african colonies.

We do not need the approval, diplomatic 'expertise' or influence any more than we can choke on another 4 years of the Jimmy Carter foreign policy decisions.

To hell with France.

[Rick]

trooper, How about the paradise they left in Indochina?

[old trooper]

Been there done that. Saigon was rotting on the vine by the time I got there. There were remnants of tea plantations and rubber plantations scattered throughout that land but their "Legacy" of bribery and corruption over the many years of governance as a French colony made any sense of democracy impossible. I saw Hue and Danang but because "We" were there the opposing team shelled to them ruins.

It was a very sad time for me. The poverty of the common folks still stands out im my memories.
Extended warfare leaves piles of corpses and rubble.

In the 80`s I was in Beirut. Their civil war achieved the same result there.

In over 30 years service I may have spent eight years stateside. 12 years were spent in the Middle East. I was in Eastern Europe for 4 years, Bosnia, Kosovo, Hungary.

Anywhere the influence of France or Islam was found, trouble abounds.

[old trooper]

BTW Rick...I just sent the Platoon package to troopers of the IDF Golani Brigade.

http://burgeridf.org/

Next week Pizza to the Paratroops.

http://pizzaidf.org/ (As stated they do deliver to the Lebanese border.)

These guys are fighting for the survival of their People, their Nation and Western Civilization.

I strongly support their cause. Politics and Religion aside, I admire their spirit after having witnessed the bad things that happen to good people where Islam rules. I am not a Jew, just a soldier that admires those that have ugly business to do against enemies that observe no rules.

[Phoenix]

Old Trooper,

My hat is off to you. Thanks for the reminder of what 'spirit' is all about.