Chirac was also whinging about the close relationship between The Americans & Brits.

A loving message to Mr. Chirac and other Frenchies all the way from the land of Churchill;

SUCK IT UP

Regards,
KC

Posted by: kc England at November 18, 2004 7:28 AM

More than anything, for Chiraq, the War in Iraq put a damper on the oil-for-food kickbacks that the French were profiting by.

I expect he's still hurting over the Israelis destroying the nuclear facility he sold Saddam back in the early 80s, the disgusting fraud.

Posted by: waterdragon52 at November 18, 2004 9:49 AM

Oui, oui! The Americans are stirring things up for us and making it difficult to appease our Muslim friends....

Jacques(Enculeur de porcs)Chirac

Posted by: Kemaste at November 18, 2004 11:08 AM

Chirac ought to be more concerned with the growing fundamentalist problem he has in his own backyard. The French answer? Ban headscarves! So typically French. So typically inept!

Don't buy french goods!!!

"There is the human race. Then there is the French."
Mark TWain

A couple of good new books.
French Betrayal----Kenneth Timmerman
Our Oldest Enemy---

Salute,

Il Toscano

Posted by: il toscano at November 18, 2004 11:18 AM

Il Toscano -

I agree . . .Kenneth Timmerman's book "French Betrayal" is an eye opening read. . .also reocommend Kenneth Timmerman's "Preachers of Hate" (avail as book on tape/CD).

Posted by: justamomof4 at November 18, 2004 11:31 AM

This cheese eating surrender monkey still thinks everything is OK between the US and France. Sorry to break the news to you Jacques, we despise your duplicitous ass. We've got Californnia wines and Wisconsin cheeses - SCREW YOU GUYS.

Posted by: Mike at November 18, 2004 11:34 AM

Why does anyone listen to this melon head Jock S. Chirac? He's a crooked, Muslim appeasing ass kisser and is no friend of the United States....

Posted by: DCWatson at November 18, 2004 11:55 AM

Why then is there so much antisemitic attacking by Muslims in France,there's no civil war there so Chirac has a lame excuse for protecting the "Good" Muslims from the bad image Iraq is putting on Islam.

Posted by: ala-sux at November 18, 2004 1:21 PM

Several things to know about Jacques Chirac:

1) If he were not President of the Republic of France, he would most likely be charged with corruption and be in jail. He remains immune from prosecution only as long as he remains President.

2) He has been on the receiving end of Arab gifts (very expensive gifts) and of money for more than a quarter-century. Among those gifts was, in the late 1970s, a jewel-encrusted falcon, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. One was made -- by a Parisian jeweller -- to be given "by Arab admirers" to Chirac, and other, identical one, was given to a very rich French contractor -- who happened to show a few people his own falcon, and to tell them that "the other one went to Chirac."

3) In Paris, he is said to require the simultaneous services not of one, nor two, but three poules de luxe. This runs into money -- see #2 above.

4) For some time he has been receiving monthly or near-monthly visits from Rafik Hariri, sometime President of Lebanon, "businessman" and "speculator" who got his start -- need I say more? -- in Saudi Arabia. No one knows what those mysterious visits at the Elysee were all about. Perhaps they were watching re-runs of Beau Geste, or perhaps Hariri was introducing Chirac to the Qur'an. Now that Hariri is out, perhaps the visits, and the little gifts, have stopped.

5) Chirac's political cronies are in up to their necks in the Oil-For-Food Scandal. Don't ask me. Wait to hear from Paul Volcker. How much was siphoned off to Chirac -- who used to enjoy passing out to cronies the apartments that had once been owned by Jews murdered during World War II and then appropriated, and kept, by the French mairie.

For while French Jews were rounded up in various ways, mostly by the French police (Vel d'Hiver, etc.) for Drancy, they had freelance help from members of the French criminal class, who enjoyed turning Jews in and then proceeding to empty ("devaliser")the apartments -- but the iimmobilier could not, itself, be removed -- that was something later French political figures would help themselves to. Of course, that furniture, some of it quite expensive, did not all end up, in the decades after World War II, on the auction blocks in Germany (though there was plenty of that in Germany, and for decades) -- no, some of it was sold right in France, and a good time was had by all -- except of course, by the original owners, who had been murdered, or fled, or if they returned, seldom recovered what had been looted.

5) Chirac's daugher and close political adviser, Claude, has given him his first Muslim grandchild. She has had two public liasons. Her first lover was a judoka; her second is a judoka and related to the French national champion -- and a Muslm beside. So Chirac now has a Muslim grandchild. For some reason this has not been made public in France; one wonders why. Surely news of such an announcement would contribute to the general French delight in its new civilization.

This deux-rivisme, with deuxrivistes replacing the tiersmondistes (and to hell with the Christians of Black Africa -- as in the Cote d'Ivoire -- French colonialism now stands foresquare with Muslim colonialism, and Arab imperialism). The "deuxrivistes" know which side of the mosque their bread is buttered on.

And what is the Article of Faith of the deuxrivistes? It is that the Mediterranean is simply a quite trivial geographical obstacle to the one civilisation -- or the two variants, Muslim and islamochristian -- of that single civilisation, and what unites these "Deux Rives" is far greater than the trivial things -- such as Qur'an, hadith, and sira -- that divide them. About the really important things -- olive oil, couscous -- well, there is no division. And let's face it. Where would not only the Renaissance (an outgrowth, obviously, of Islamic sources of intellectual ferment and skeptical inquiry -- and isn't the putting Man at the center of things, and Individualism -- aren't these really at the very heart of Islam? No wonder the Europeans had to look south for all that fruitful cross-pollination etcetera etceterum. And don't forget to form, in your mind at moments like these, a mental picture of the grave old men murmuring low, among the low murmurs of fountains, in the stately courtyards of the House of Translators, at the Court of Haroun al-Rashid, in Baghdad in the old days, or of Maimonides, no doubt being tended in his final illness by a special set of Muslim doctors sent by kindly Saladin himself, or think of Washington Irving's Alhambra, and the Moor's last sigh, and how splendidly everyone got along in Al-Andaluz, by the Guadalquivir, and the scent of orange-blossom -- holiendo a azahar -- and the gitanillas overflowing beyond the black grillwork of the whitewashed walls, and the narrow alleys, in Cordoba, or Seville, or Grenada (all at different times, of course, depending on how the Reconquista was doing).

Oh, and now is the time to mention that long and glorious list of the Great Men of Islamic Civilisation who Practically Constructed -- in their days off -- the Western world. One must never fail to mention -- D. de V. never fails to mention when he gives his little speeches and deuxriviste pep talks in Cairo, or at the "Library" (whew -- $225 million in Euros down the drain) of Alexandria, or anywhere he dares to travel in the Maghreb -- those Great Figures. So here they are (get out your pencils, and note them down): Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Averroes, Al-Rhazi. Oh, have I left anyone out? Yes, I fogot to mention Avicenna, Al-Rhazi, Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, Averroes. And perhaps I did not mention Averroes, Al-Farabi, Al-Kindii, Al-Rhazi, Avicenna. Oh, how silly of me to have forgotten to mention, and I'll add them here, if you don't mind -- Averroes and Avicenna. And also Al-Rhazi. Did I leave anyone out? Oh yes, Al-Farabi. Sorry. What a list. How can Europe be expected to top that, with its pathetic little list of supposed "great men." Or the Chinese, on their high Tang horse? Or the Koreans, or the Japanese, or the Mayans with their supposed calendrical and other scientific achievements. Don't even try to top that list of Great Islamic Achievers (and please don't bring up the matter of just how many of them were orthodox, and how many practically apostates -- and certainly do not begin looking into which ones were Persians and Turks and which ones were Arabs). That would not be fair. That would not be kind.

Posted by: Hugh at November 18, 2004 1:51 PM

Why then is there so much antisemitic attacking by Muslims in France,there's no civil war there so Chirac has a lame excuse for protecting the "Good" Muslims from the bad image Iraq is putting on Islam.

Posted by: ala-sux

Ala my friend, please help me....What in the hell is a "good Muslim"? and where would this rare bird be located?

Thanks

D.C.

Posted by: DCWatson at November 18, 2004 2:26 PM

Chirac should NEVER refer to anyone as arrogant, he owns the designation.

Posted by: Carolyn2 at November 18, 2004 3:56 PM

This is just precious:
"To a certain extent Saddam Hussein's departure was a positive thing"

To a CERTAIN EXTENT?! And to what extent is it not???
Ah, yes - could it be the lucrative oil contracts?!

How silly of me to have overlooked that. Pardon moi, Jacques, but my IQ dropped 10 points reading your comment, I'll be OK in a few minutes...

Posted by: Mike at November 18, 2004 4:26 PM

Check out the latest haut couture from Paris.

Posted by: Hulegu Khan at November 18, 2004 4:53 PM

These catalogues can be picked up in local mosques. The models, of course, are faceless. The glass of fashion, and the mold of form.

Posted by: Hugh at November 18, 2004 5:08 PM

Those burkas and abayas are not about modesty, but are about invisibilising women, LITERALLY!

Posted by: Voltaire at November 18, 2004 5:35 PM

why has blunkit allowed this scum bag into the u.k.?.
throw the swine into the channel let him swim back to france.

Posted by: kasper1062 at November 18, 2004 6:23 PM

Great idea kasper1062 but the Channel has enough crap in it already ! But to show that not all Frenchmen are as twisted as chirac check out a book called "Anti-Americanism" by Jean-Francois Revel. The book cleverly shows the intellectual sickness behind Europe's anti-american attitudes and shows why france's "elite" are so envious of the U.S.A.

Posted by: Son Of Albion at November 18, 2004 7:08 PM

It is just unbelieveable that in 2004 , women are made to wear a bag. Like Voltaire said it is about eliminating a woman's very presence. I don't believe in reincarnation but please Lord send all of these muslim men back to earth as a woman...please.

Posted by: Carolyn2 at November 18, 2004 7:31 PM

Hillary Clinton,Maureen Dawd,Tereza Heinz,Barbara Streissand,Jeanine Garofallo,Susan Sarandon,Madonna,Cameron Diaz and all of our left wing,islam-loving liberals;A copy of this catalog should be sent to all of them,let them pick the favorite design and color,for this is what they`ll wear if isalm had its way in the US(god forbid).

Posted by: adela at November 18, 2004 10:47 PM

To think John Kerry was crooning about support of world-leaders such as these?? Nice thing is that history shows that the French are a pathetic bunch of losers and whosever side they decide to take eventually loses the big wars. I'm almost hoping frabnce will back the jihadis in the coming war before the second coming.....

Posted by: voletti at November 18, 2004 11:35 PM

Just as the Fart, Chirac will one of these days have to answer to his support and propagation of terrorism.
His friend Kofi is trying to keep a lid on the scam where these venal turds killed iraqi babies.

Posted by: hutchrun at November 19, 2004 2:21 AM

I think France has relegated itself to irrelevance. It becomes evident when one reads Chirac's comment that the History will judge if he or Blair is right about the war in Iraq.

The desparate left in BBC is willing to go against their inborn anti-French feeling to embrace Jacques, just because they both share anti- americanism.

If they are worried about the people getting killed, I think they should be more concerned about Sudan and Darfur.

All these guys do is sit around and talk. Just as Chirac prided himself about his success in Iran, the Iranian dissidents have come out with an info that Iran is building one in another place.

That makes one wonder if Chirac is to be judged as a fool or a danger to humanity ?

Posted by: Seculartalk at November 19, 2004 12:53 PM