Another fine French Whine
Charles at
LGF links to a petulant
Agence France Presse release complaining how:
bq.
Bush uses France against John Kerry
US President George W. Bush is capitalizing on anti-French sentiments that have emerged in the United States since Paris opposed last year’s US-led attack on Iraq, suggesting that opponent John Kerry would give France a veto over US policy.
bq. “The use of troops to defend America must never be subject to veto by countries like France,” Bush said Friday at a rally in Pennsylvania.
bq. Bush’s campaign does not miss the opportunity to stress that Kerry speaks French and has family ties to France, and that the Massachusetts senator often refers to France when he talks about how the US has lost respect in the world since Bush became president in 2001.
France opposed the attack on Iraq because France was making money hand-over-fist both with the corrupt Oil-For-Food program and with selling arms specifically disallowed by the United Nations. (We found them over there with dates of manufacture that speifically were in violation).
These people are not our friends despite our pulling their collective petards out of the fire 60 years ago.
Posted by DaveH at October 2, 2004 5:00 PM