Appeasement is one thing, but this sounds more like a strangelove version of the worlds biggest sucide bomber.  What a dumb ass.

The French (along with the Vatican) have long supported Arab Nationalism and have been fundamentally hostile to Zionism to the point of being willing to see the Jewish state be overcome by the Arabs and the Jews either driven into the sea or returned to their traditional position of dhimmitude and nonperson status under Islam.

The pope doesn’t have nukes, but the French do, and they’ve been happy to share.  “Chiraq” is a crony of Saddam and was instrumental in supporting Iraqi nuclear weapons programs.  The perfidiousness of the French knows virtually no bounds.

Time to add france to the list of countries we should nuke if we are ever nuked.  Stupid little bitches.

This transcript is dated 16 May, 2001. Not that that excuses the fascist nut job, but it isn’t brand new atrocious comments. Just the same old stuff. I wonder if he thought the PA should have French nukes, and if so, would he make delivery in Paris?

France has introduced nuclear weapons into the Middle East, yes. Apart from Iraq, French aid was crucial in the Israeli nuclear program. Absent help under de Gaulle, Dimona might still be a civilian nuclear reactor.

Immorality and stupidity go hand-and-hand.  In a perverse way I’d like to see France give Palestinians nuclear weapons.  It would leave Israel no choice but to strike first thus ridding the world of a troublesome religion.  But… that’s just me.

Well, that explains france’s equipping Saddam with a nuclear weapons factory.

By crikey, is the French socialisto govt. perniscious to say the least. Equipping Arab countries with nuclear weapons let alone a fully worked up adavnced programme as the French propose would be to unleash hell on earth.

In what sense can diplomacy be conducted with a counrty which is hell bent on things which pose a threat to not simply the west but civilsation full stop. It is difficult to comprehend what is passed as analysis and policy formulation within the French govt: one day it is, we must stop international commerce, then it’s how to bring McDonald’s down, and then how to equip some very bad regimest of countries harbouring some of the nastiest outfits in the world with nucleear weapons and for what: to attack the only civilised country in the mid East, Israel.

And I believed the perfidy of the French govt. had bottomed.

I am French and I today I can tell that I am ashamed. May the Lord have mercy on us all…

Can anyone tell me how important this guy is? Is he in the ruling party? How big is his party? is he a senior member?

More improtantly have any major politicians came out and told him to shut up? Has Chiraq said anything? did most people just ignore this becaus it happens everyday?

Here is the Vichyguy’s profile on the Parlement site:http://www.europarl.eu.int/edd/gbframeset.html

You realise these are fighting words, right? Lets be very clear about this. If he is a lone nutter from some predominately ultra-lib district, who is re elected sans opposition due to demographics, we can over look it . After all Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the house.

From all appearances we have to conclude that this wasn’t a concern at the time of utterance. Maybe we need more context. A transcript of the minutes of the meeting and the other ministers responces?

DF, You might want to take that trip you have been thinking about. Not just yet, but I would keep the bags packed.

Why is anyone surprised that someone would support giving nuclear weapons to a dictator?

There are imbecils who still believe that giving nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union was a good thing, “balancing” power between the United States and another comparable “pole.” The trouble is, because the Soviet pole was trying to establish permanent police states in its totalitarian image all over the world, its possession of nuclear weapons effectively stymied, for four decades, America’s 20th-Century push for global freedom and democracy.

To counter the Soviet pathology, the United States itself had to make temporary deals with autocratic dictatorships.

However, since the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has been able to press on for democracy. Every nation in the Western Hemisphere, except Cuba, has held elections (yes, some were freer than others), with U.S. support. And even in Iraq, where the Soviet threat once suffocated democratic aspirations, liberation finally is possible.

The point is this: For freedom, the worst thiing in the world is dictatorships with nuclear weapons. Free nations have an obligation to help the oppressed, but they cannot be expected to commit suicide to liberate an imprisoned nation.

Nuclear dictatorships are especially dangerous because of their secret decision-making, their unpredictability, and the lack of accountability of dictators to the press, to opposition political parties, to courts or to voters.

Russia today has about the same number of nuclear weapons that it had before the Soviet Union died, but because Russia has established rudimentary democratic institutions, its decision-making is open just enough to remove the unpredictability that made the Soviet Union so dangerous. (Let’s urge the Russians to make their democracy even stronger.)

Openness and accountability are the reasons that no two democracies went to war with each other in the entire 20th Century. Secrecy and unaccountability are the reasons that dictators killed more of their own people in those 100 years than all the world’s wars combined. That record is proof that democracies must replace every dictatorship in the Middle East.

We should not be making dictators more powerful. We should be helping the people in every dictatorship to claim their human right to democratic power. When the Middle East is free, it finally will see peace.

Frank Warner

“I have no hesitation in saying that we must consider giving the Arab side a large enough force, including a large enough nuclear force, to persuade Israel that it cannot...”

That’s really scary. Sounds like a stupid dumbass paying for his own death. Thanks for the bullet, here’s the tip, mr.Ossama.

It’s really ashaming to read how our takes are used. paying those Eurocrappers his bullshit.

Before i used to think France was the only one country stupid enough to act this way, after the elections in my country i realized i was wrong.

Yes, i’m from Surrenderstan.

France , véritable “état voyou “ ...!

Evan - if by “President” you mean in the Husseinian sense, then yes, you’re probably running even money at this point.

As for the comments being from May 2001 - eh.  Subsequent events have proven that this “idea” is willfully suicidal.  I worry a bit more about the Spanish capitulation and what may thus happen in my own country come October or November; I worry about MoveOn.org putting out “Nothing Accomplished” bumper stickers (as obvious a lie as one is likely to see in just two words) - and having people believe it; I worry about defeatists in the governments in the West surrendering a fight which is, all told, going remarkably well.

MDF, nothing can replace your homeland, of course, but make yourself free of ours - you are welcome for as long as you please.

Nightfly, Ditto. ‘Nuf said.

France has no monopoly on idiots for politicians, simply read the news and you will find the inept, ideological bloodsuckers in every country. Although the quote is “old”, the thoughts behind it are alive and well today as they were when first uttered.

The world seems to have turned upside down. Europeans had no problems killing each other in the millions until after WWII. Now there seems to be resentment for countries like Israel and the U.S. who have tired of bleeding because their neighbors or ideological enemies insist on trying to eliminate them and their way of life. The U.S. has given aid and shed blood for almost every country in the world and Israel simply wants to exist, yet the howls for their demise come from those who would benefit the most from simpy discarding their status as “victims” and work to come into the 21st Century.

The Palestinians have managed to make almost every nation in which they resided cast them out and they insist on continuing to live in poverty instead of ridding themselves of the idea of destroying the jews and instead educate their children while making true peace with the Israelis. Eventually, the rest of the world is going to decide that socialism and despotism are the true threats to peace and will no longer tolerate them. China and Russia will come to the point where ideology is trumped by the knowledge that cooperation will further their comforts they have become used to than by trying to take it by force which means that N. Korea will be forced to give up it’s nuclear blackmail because China has too much to lose in supporting a lunatic that may cause their destruction by default. One can only pray that these things come to pass before some fool decides to martyr themself and in turn cause the nuclear holocaust we so feared in the last century!

For those who think that the Jews won their land honestly I can say that they have a hole in their head. The land was usurped or taken by stealth under the pretence that it was given to them by God. What a ridiculous idea!. If God wanted them to have this land they wouldn’t have to go and kill people from the Helicopters against human beings unarmed. Why then God led the Jews go in circle for forty long years without telling them where they should be. Gaza was never a Jewish land from the beginning of the world’s existence, and yet they claim that it is. Babylon was never a Jewish land. Isarael as we know it now was nothing more than a few tribes. Wake up people of the world the Jews wants it all exactly like the Muslims, by force helped by the damn Americans.

“Right-wing socialist/sovereignist” sounds a lot like “national socialist” to me. Sorry for the fulfillment of Godwin’s law, but in context it seems appropriate.