August 30, 2004

French Disappointed in Terrorists

Left Bank MiniTruth outraged by French hostage threat

Monday's French press reflects national feelings of shock and defiance as the country rallies behind the two French journalists facing a death threat from the Islamist group holding them captive in Iraq.

"Monstrous!" is the stark headline on the front page of the heavyweight Le Figaro.

Given its position as the leading opponent to the US-led war on Iraq, the paper says, "France could have hoped to be spared this cruel ordeal".

"France's attitude in the Iraq conflict should give it powerful leverage in Baghdad." -- Tribune de Geneve

French comrades make reasonable case, da? Should not all enemies of le cowboy americain stand together?

Actually, MiniTruth Marchais Branch has not yet adopted proper Party line on this matter. Approved position follows: This matter, like ALL PROBLEMS, is fault of George W. Bushitler. "By unjustified, immoral invasion of Iraq, he has PROVOKED otherwise reasonable and peace-loving peoples of Iraq and Middle East into such terrorist acts. They did nothing of this kind before March, 2003."


Posted by Commissar at August 30, 2004 08:45 AM
Confessions

Ah zat smell... It's zee sweet smell of appeasement.
You know, if any president of the U.S., Democrat or Republican, sends our troops to bail these folks out. I am sending my kids to Costa Rica.

Extracted from: Gordon at August 30, 2004 10:02 AM

Time magazine has a piece coming out about how Bush has actually made th terrorist threat worse. Worse than terrorists flying planes into our buildings? Yes, because now France hates us, too. Or at least, they've stopped trying to pretend they likes us.

We had French sympathy after 9/11. "We are all Americans now" French papers declared. They cried our tears, shared our pain. But Bush squandered that support it by attacking a country that was absolutely no threat to France. In fact, France had worked for years to build a friendship with Saddam. Now, Iraqis are holding French hostages, and decades of carefully appeasing islamofascists has gone right down the drain.

Can you really blame the French for hating Bush?

Extracted from: Liberal Larry at August 30, 2004 10:06 AM

"Zat smell" is the smell of French pants being peed. Which, as many do not know, is the actual root of the word "appeezement." As in,

"Whenevaire ze bad guys sretten me, Ah peez mah pants!" In the Middle Ages this phrase was condensed into a single word, and the second P, the one in "pants" was dropped because "peepee" comes not from French but from the hated Eengleeeesh.

Extracted from: McGehee at August 30, 2004 10:32 AM

LL, are you serious? If Kerry gets elected then things go back to normal. Which means France only hampers NATO efforts and American tourists can go back to being treated like crap.

BTW, Well put, McGehee!

Extracted from: Gordon at August 30, 2004 10:40 AM

Comrades: do not let the deviationist-revisionist-trotskyte canaille-on-Potomac disorient you! One in ten people in France is a Muslim brother. If you go to urban areas, more than taht. The country is united when it has to show its abhorrence of Bush and his accomplices. Tens of thousands demonstrated against the US imperialism attack on peace loving comrade Saddam, the lighhouse of progresive thinking in the Middle East. How many went out today in Paris to show their support to the imperialist neo-colonialist spying journalists? Less than 2,000. France is on the verge of following the rightful line, comrades.

Long live the eternal alliance of the Muslim, Socialist and Anti-Zionist fighters!

Extracted from: Juan A. Hervada at August 30, 2004 05:49 PM

I think these jihadis went looking for a couple of white guys to make some money off of ---and ended up with a pair of Frenchmen who are on their side. Well, what to do? Go grab a newspaper and see what will stir up the Muslims in France the most. A ban on headscarves? Fight the power, abu!

Extracted from: Toby Petzold at August 31, 2004 02:06 AM