I have to agree with the commentor over at the AIR who used this news as eveidence that Jacques chirac is, actually, Satan.

I have a weird dream where I wake up and I am in bed with Jeri Ryan, Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham. I then stumble out of bed and wander out of my mansion in the clouds and ride a rainbow down to a beautiful forest where I spend the morning frolicking with various Hollywood starlets and hot russian tennis players until I can frolick no more and am magically teleported to a small room where I spend the rest of the day beating Osama Bin Landen, Jacque Chirac, Ted Kennedy and other dirt bags to my hearts content.

My advice to you Ace is if you are going to dream about something that aint gonna happen, go for the gold.

My understanding is that Chirac is a French conservative!?! What the hell do French liberals act like?

I'm not really sure, since I try to know as little about France as possible, but I think it works this way: French liberals are Communists. Pretty much the same thing we have here, except they don't bother trying to hide it.

French conservatives do the following things, in order: 1) whatever is in their own personal best economic interest; 2) whatever they *think* is in France's best economic interest. Now, France has long taken the position that it's best to court the Arab world for cheap petroleum and a market for weapons and construction business. Business is business; and if they have to put up with some Muslims committing crimes on French soil to do it, so be it.

And hey, that's fine. If the French people think it's in their best interest to oppose us, I don't have a problem with it. I don't even hold it against them. We just shouldn't let that retard our actions in service of our own best interest.

Does this mean I get to start screaming hysterically, "No blood for oil, Jacques!" with little or no provocation?

Oh, wait, it's only when the blood is spilled by Westerners that it's a problem. When Muslims shed Muslim blood, no biggie...

I thought the Muslim militias were killing Christians and animists... not other Muslims?

(moonbat mode on)

Muslims killing Christians is ok because undoubtedly the Christians did something to piss the Muslims off.

(moonbat mode off)

RT - Different bit of Sudanese genocide. Darfur is populated by no-Arab;i.e., black, Muslims.

Yeah, it's hard to keep all that genocide straight.

Can we take these assholes off the 'allies' list now??
If not now, then when? When their actions directly result in dead Americans?

And...can we nuke them? Just a little bit? Just a biddy iddy teeny nuke? Just melt the Eiffel Tower?

lauraw -- you should be ashamed of yourself!

The Eiffel Tower is a beautiful triumph of engineering. Similarly, the Louvre is a fabulous repository of artistic treasures; the Arc du Triomphe is a landmark; Notre Dame is an architectural marvel; and the Pompidou houses a fine collection of cultural masterworks.

And THAT is why modern-day precision armaments are far, far superior to nukes.

Yes, I believe France is the reason we developed the neutron bomb--that thing that vaporizes smelly greasy French guys but leaves their buildings and cute Frog-ettes on mo-peds.

OK, then bomb 'em. Leave only the patisseries standing. They may be the conniving backstabbing whores of Europe, but they do make a mighty fine cruller.

Can we take these assholes off the 'allies' list now??
If not now, then when? When their actions directly result in dead Americans?

Two words: Viet Nam.