“Well, Britain gave its support but I did not see anything in return. I’m not sure it is in the nature of our American friends at the moment to return favours systematically.”
M Chirac's version of favors remind me of the mafia.
In other remarks that will sting the Bush Administration, he again outlined his vision of a “multipolar” world in which a united Europe would be equal with the US, and mocked Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, for his division of Europe into old and new.
Wanting to be equal and being equal are two very different things. If Europe ever unshackles its economy (ahem, ditch Socialism) and builds and army that wouldn't get its ass kicked in a Wisconsin country bar, then there will be this so called "equality" As long as we have to clean up Europe's own back yard, no equality.
“It is like that nice guy in America — what’s his name again? — who spoke about ‘old Europe’. It has no sense. It’s a lack of culture to imagine that. Imagining that there can be division between the British and French vision of Europe is as absurd as imagining that we are building Europe against the United States.”
I'm going to ignore the lack of culture thing-its way to easy to go after (bathe, Frenchmen!). Instead, I like the "absurdity" of the French and Brits not seeing eye to eye. Yeah, I forgot about the love that flows back and forth across the British Channel.
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nice use of your newly augmented vocabulary.
when reading various quotes from good ol' jack to which you have referred, i can't help but be reminded of a whiney, snotty-nosed, spoiled little kid who is throwing a tantrum. i can just picture ol' jack frantically stomping his feet on the ground while screaming, "not fair! not fair!!!"
or sumthin.
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