Somehow in the last twelve years the French have gone from the hated betraying cheese-eating surrender monkeys, so terrible that Congress changed the name of fried potatoes to 'freedom fries', to suddenly 'we're all French'.
I think a lot of people have forgotten 'freedom fries', and all the conservative groups who came out and hated the French, mocked John Kerry for knowing French and possibly being of French ancestry. And what the French said about what would happen after an Iraq invasion.
Fox News back in the day:
http://ift.tt/1MwjPon
An analysis on this very subject:
http://ift.tt/1H3HIH0
It looks like the French were right all along, and it looks like conservatives want people to forget they ever said anything negative about the French. They also probably don't care about the French now, so much as they want yet another pretext to go to war.
In other words, it's never been about who supported whom, and who is whose ally. It's always been, to the conservatives, 'you're either with us or against us', and they would gladly toss any ally under the bus who didn't agree with them.
I think a lot of people have forgotten 'freedom fries', and all the conservative groups who came out and hated the French, mocked John Kerry for knowing French and possibly being of French ancestry. And what the French said about what would happen after an Iraq invasion.
Fox News back in the day:
http://ift.tt/1MwjPon
Quote:
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Rep. H. James Saxton, a New Jersey Republican, has drafted a resolution that calls for a U.S. boycott of the Paris Air Show this spring. "If [the Chirac government] fails to find a way to cooperate, we'll urge U.S. citizens, companies and the military to forego participation," Saxton told WorldNetDaily.com. House Speaker Dennis Hastert said he'd like to target bottled French mineral water and wine. He has instructed Republican colleagues to determine whether Congress should pass laws that would impose new health standards on bottles of Evian and other French waters. |
An analysis on this very subject:
http://ift.tt/1H3HIH0
Quote:
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The French, along with other stalwart NATO allies like Germany and Turkey, also opposed the war on the grounds that it would destabilize the entire region and have unintended ripple effects that could not be foreseen. The French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, summed up the French position stating “Since we can disarm Iraq through peaceful means, we should not take the risk to endanger the lives of innocent civilians or soldiers, to jeopardize the stability of the region and further widen the gap between our people and our cultures.” |
It looks like the French were right all along, and it looks like conservatives want people to forget they ever said anything negative about the French. They also probably don't care about the French now, so much as they want yet another pretext to go to war.
In other words, it's never been about who supported whom, and who is whose ally. It's always been, to the conservatives, 'you're either with us or against us', and they would gladly toss any ally under the bus who didn't agree with them.
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