NATO is getting ugly

[Gonz]

holy shit, batman! france may have to fight it's own battles.

Pentagon adviser: France 'no longer ally'
By Martin Walker
UPI Chief International Correspondent
From the International Desk
Published 2/4/2003 8:43 PM
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- France is no longer an ally of the United States and the NATO alliance "must develop a strategy to contain our erstwhile ally or we will not be talking about a NATO alliance" the head of the Pentagon's top advisory board said in Washington Tuesday.

Richard Perle, a former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration and now chairman of the Pentagon's Policy Advisory Board, condemned French and German policy on Iraq in the strongest terms at a public seminar organized by a New York-based PR firm and attended by Iraqi exiles and American Middle East and security officials.

But while dismissing Germany's refusal to support military action against Iraq as an aberration by "a discredited chancellor," Perle warned that France's attitude was both more dangerous and more serious.

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[Squiggy]

And they have nukes. We'ld better go disarm them.

 

[drkavnger99]

That article is an eye opener although i think france is a bit of a pessimist unlike sadaam who uses his weapons on his own ppl!

 

[Dave]

doesn't france do a hugh amount of busines in iraq? not just oil, military and high tech industry type of stuff?

 

[Gonz]

Yes, Spot.


Slaps Squiggy around for GP.

 

[Squiggy]

 

[Aunty Em]

The french have a very active communist party as well as a very active right wing... even more extreme than us!

I was gonna say they're a bunch of commies... but that's stereotyping...

 

[Gato_Solo]

Actually, France hasn't been an active member of NATO since Charles DeGaulle was their president. He got a little upset when NATO wouldn't help him in Vietnam.

 

[Gonz]

Not that it matters much anyway, The EU will be muslim in 50 years anyway. You western Europeans may want to get busy multiplying.

 

[Professur]

Just nuke the whole fucking place. Noone'll miss it.

 

[Shadowfax]

heh. we're too close next to them...

 

[freako104]

Actually, France hasn't been an active member of NATO since Charles DeGaulle was their president. He got a little upset when NATO wouldn't help him in Vietnam.

do they still harbour some animosity towards us though hes dead?

 

[Gato_Solo]

But of course. They are French, after all.

 

[freako104]

i thought they just liked being snotty to americans i didnt think they actually hated us.