Our friends the French
The french author of the book that claimed that no plane ever hit the pentagon has produced a deck of cards intended to mock the deck that the US military produced to aid in the hunt for the top leaders of the Baathist regime in Iraq.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is the ace of spades, and President Bush is the king of diamonds. Thierry Meyssan, the man behind the French deck, said, "We thought this card game would allow us to ... explain why we consider the government of George Bush a threat to international security."
Words fail me.
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For the life of me, I cannot
For the life of me, I cannot figure out where this idea might have originated? Did words fail you when this came out:
Deck">http://www.newsmaxstore.com/nms/showdetl.cfm?&DID=6&Product_ID=1294]Deck of Weasels?
Words don't fail me.
Words don't fail me.
Here's my word:
[rolls eyes]
what[em]ever[/em].
nder: ZING!
nder:
ZING!
I somehow missed the "Deck of
I somehow missed the "Deck of Weasels" whenever it came out. Just took a look, and it is equally sophomoric, even if it attacks people I don't generally care for.
When the Post ran the picture with the Un reps from Germany and France with weasel heads, that was funny. Most everything after that was derivative and stale.
The thing that gets me about this is that while the French government keeps saying they are our friends, things like this keep happening. There is a bit of a disconnect here.
Well, the maker of this deck
Well, the maker of this deck doesn't work for the government, does he?
Well, I didn't say that he
Well, I didn't say that he did, did I?
Well, to be less snarky,
Well, to be less snarky, while this particular individual does not work for the government, a whole raft of both private and government actions in France indicate that they are not exactly our bosom friends. Yet, the government of France keeps announcing that we are. And hires Woody Allen to convince us of the fact. That alone proves that they aren't all that close, or they would have realized what a boner that move was before they went ahead with it.
I sometimes wonder if, as the aglosphere proponents believe, the west is actually splitting into distinct cultural/political entities - with the English speaking world on one side, and continental europe on the other.
Buckethead, I think that may
Buckethead, I think that may be true only insofar as it's always been true.
When the GI's went into France back in Dubya Dubya Two, there was considerable culture shock on both sides. Although the US and Western Europe have grown familiar with each other on a day-to-day basis, there are both systemic and current reasons why they won't necessarily see eye to eye. You know that as well as I do.
I wouldn't make too much of this grade-school crap. The US and France have been at odds before, and will again and again. At least we're both Constitutional Republics.