the dissident frogman

20 years and 3 months ago

Disappointement ♠ Déception

the dissident frogman

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There's an old and wise French saying that I like. Quite literally it goes like this:

"You can't have the butter, the money for the butter and the creamery landlady's ass."

Blame Shirak, blame Schroeder, and blame Putin.

But don't blame the United States for standing to their word, their money and more than anything, their sons and daughters' lives.

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Il y a un vieux et sage diction français que j'affectionne. Vous le connaissez sans doute :

"On ne peut pas avoir le beurre, l'argent du beurre et le cul de la crémière."

Blâmez Shiraq, blâmez Schroeder et blâmez Putin.

Mais ne blâmez pas les Etats-Unis pour s'en tenir à leurs promesses, leur argent et plus que tout, aux vies de leurs fils et de leurs filles.

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1090 - Mashiki

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Quite interesting isn't it? We'll cry and whine and maybe the US will give us something, even Canada. Well the people up here in Canuckistan can maybe learn something like giving money is good, but supplying something behind it is better. Somehow or another people up here seemed to think that despite the anti-American rehtoric coming from the flapping heads in Ottawa, the general anti-US sentiment on the street, as well as the other crap along with the $190 billion that they donated(only some going directly to Iraq, the rest to the UN), that this would ensure that they got something out of the reconstruction. Sorry! About time that this "G8" nation learned the hardway that money doesn't buy everything. Atleast now with our current Priminister on his way out, an 'appointed' priminsiter coming in(wait do I live in a monarchy or a democracy?), and the merger of the two right-wing parties up here maybe we can get back to some more positive US relations. But maybe I'm just being hopeful.

1091 - OL

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"We'll cry and whine and maybe the US will give us something, even Canada." Well, it seems it could come pretty soon... :- ) "Even as Bush took a hard line in public, there were signs that he was working privately to calm the furor. He called Jean Chretien on the Canadian prime minister's last day in office and, according to Chretien, said he would seek to exempt Canada from the new policy. "He told me he wasn't happy we were on the list," Chretien told reporters in Ottawa. "He said we would take steps so that we weren't on the list any more." White House press secretary Scott McClellan suggested countries that forgive Iraqi debts could be added to the list of those eligible to bid. "If countries want to join in our efforts in Iraq," he said, "circumstances can change, and we'll make that very clear." " source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57805-2003Dec11.html

1092 - Lincoln

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I am by no means a supporter of Bush, but was glad to hear that the French, Germans and Russians wont profit from a war they didnt want. Or more precisely they wont get contracts out of money that has yet to materialize. They are seeking, in a very real sense, the ass of the creamery lady's daughter----that's who's going to come up with the treasure spent in Iraq. (Her son already lost his blood)

1093 - the dissident frogman

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"Or more precisely they wont get contracts out of money that has yet to materialize" Well, if I'm not mistaking, that money does exist. It comes straight from the American tax payers' pockets. Americans are paying, America decide who she will hire. Should sound fair enough, even for the most hypocritical Foreign Affair minister of Old Europe. And that's just one among many good reasons to kick France, Ze Germans and Russia out of the creamery.
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