carbonmarine
09-13-2004, 06:25 PM
Oh....okay ...... if the world were only so simple Villepin.... !
Ya know, somebody in his own party should kick this guy's ass and tell him shut up and be a real fuggin man ... The reason France was agaist the war was they were on " The take ". The US had proof, so they shut up and went along reluctantly and cried like babies the whole way because we called on their Chit.
Now this chit below from a "coloureful and creative whinner "
Enjoy,
Rick32
SPECIAL NOTE: LONG LIVE THE SHARK !!!!
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De Villepin Compares U.S., Bush to 'Sharks'
The United States is a voracious shark in pursuit of its prey while France is a graceful seagull, soaring above the tumult of the world in pursuit of peace and justice and all that is good and holy, wrote former French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin in a new book.
Now France's interior minister and a poet...., de Villepin has written "Le Requin et La Mouette" (The Shark and the Seagull), in which he uses poetic imagery to justify his nation's vehement opposition to the Iraq war.
Borrowing the terms shark and seagull from another French author, Eric Cantona, the elegant de Villepin implies that the shark, "a symbol of power, strength and the refusal to be halted by the complexity of the world ... cutting through the sea and pouncing on its prey," represents George Bush's America, which simple-mindedly rejects other cultures.
France, on the other hand, is represented by the seagull, a symbol of sweet reasonableness "intoxicated by the sky."
"She turns, carried by the winds, with undulating wing, uttering from time to time her agonising peal of laughter. "She watches, soars, comes closer, climbs, descends, turns suddenly. The straight line is rarely her course. She listens to the world."
He fails to add another, less-grand feature of the seagull's behavior: its tendency to emulate pigeons in New York's Central Park, leaving behind less desirable reminders of their presence splattered on statues, park benches and other parts of the landscape.
The world needs la fraternite (brotherhood), he writes.
"With a restless eye, with an open soul, let us embrace the contours of diversity," he urges, without explaining how such divergent personalities as Osama bin Laden, for example, can be encouraged to embrace la fraternite.
The point of all this poetic imagery, de Villepin notes, is the need for the seagull and the shark to reconcile their values, which appears to mean that in the name of diversity the U.S. must become a seagull, just like la belle France.
Ya know, somebody in his own party should kick this guy's ass and tell him shut up and be a real fuggin man ... The reason France was agaist the war was they were on " The take ". The US had proof, so they shut up and went along reluctantly and cried like babies the whole way because we called on their Chit.
Now this chit below from a "coloureful and creative whinner "
Enjoy,
Rick32
SPECIAL NOTE: LONG LIVE THE SHARK !!!!
__________________________________________________ _____________
De Villepin Compares U.S., Bush to 'Sharks'
The United States is a voracious shark in pursuit of its prey while France is a graceful seagull, soaring above the tumult of the world in pursuit of peace and justice and all that is good and holy, wrote former French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin in a new book.
Now France's interior minister and a poet...., de Villepin has written "Le Requin et La Mouette" (The Shark and the Seagull), in which he uses poetic imagery to justify his nation's vehement opposition to the Iraq war.
Borrowing the terms shark and seagull from another French author, Eric Cantona, the elegant de Villepin implies that the shark, "a symbol of power, strength and the refusal to be halted by the complexity of the world ... cutting through the sea and pouncing on its prey," represents George Bush's America, which simple-mindedly rejects other cultures.
France, on the other hand, is represented by the seagull, a symbol of sweet reasonableness "intoxicated by the sky."
"She turns, carried by the winds, with undulating wing, uttering from time to time her agonising peal of laughter. "She watches, soars, comes closer, climbs, descends, turns suddenly. The straight line is rarely her course. She listens to the world."
He fails to add another, less-grand feature of the seagull's behavior: its tendency to emulate pigeons in New York's Central Park, leaving behind less desirable reminders of their presence splattered on statues, park benches and other parts of the landscape.
The world needs la fraternite (brotherhood), he writes.
"With a restless eye, with an open soul, let us embrace the contours of diversity," he urges, without explaining how such divergent personalities as Osama bin Laden, for example, can be encouraged to embrace la fraternite.
The point of all this poetic imagery, de Villepin notes, is the need for the seagull and the shark to reconcile their values, which appears to mean that in the name of diversity the U.S. must become a seagull, just like la belle France.