Who is Jacque Chirac?

[Spiffor]

No, he is hardly a murderer, despite all his flaws.

The greenpeace affair is from Mitterrand's government. Mitterrand was busy testing nukes in the French pacifican island designed to do so (Mururoa atoll). It was know Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior was to arrive from New Zealand. Mitterrand (or his defense minister) decided to send two spies to plant a bomb, with a strict order not to let it kill anyone. The operation failed, and there has been one dead. It was a major commotion at the time.

I forgot how Chirac treated the Greenpeace's activists during his tests, but it was much less ruthless.

[DarthVeda]

I'd have the commandos go in, take them off the boat, take the boat out and nuke it...

[Verto]

So many potential Darwin Awards wasted...

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by DarthVeda
I'd have the commandos go in, take them off the boat, take the boat out and nuke it...

The gov was trying to cover it up. There should have been no proof nor witnesses it was the government who set up us the bomb. Everybody would have forgotten about it if there wasn't a dead.

[KrazyHorse]

You know when I decided the French had balls?

When they ****ing attacked a Greenpeace boat so they could carry out the first nuke test in 20 years.

[DarthVeda]

I enjoyed that

[Az]

When they ****ing attacked a Greenpeace boat so they could carry out the first nuke test in 20 years

[Hueij]

Originally posted by DarthVeda
I enjoyed that

I'll bet the wife and the two little children of the killed Dutch photographer didn't...

[Az]

Of course they didn't. noone says that this was a good act ( right?), but it was rather ballsy.

Besides, we are a bunch of ants. There are far more people dying from stupid **** every day than this occurances, the war on iraq, 9/11, or whatever.

[Lancer]

Anyone know what was said in the Blair/ Chirac shouting match at the EU meeting? Just heard about this.

Thanks for all the posts on Chirac. What a JERK!

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Lancer
Anyone know what was said in the Blair/ Chirac shouting match at the EU meeting? Just heard about this.

I hadn't heard about that. I'm not suprised though.

[Sandman]

Didn't the French sell nuclear stuff to Israel?

[DinoDoc]

Yes. They seem to be among the world's biggest proliferators of WMD.

[Az]

Thanks, France.

[GePap]

They had a report about him in Times, or lets say, and interview. He was a conscript in Algeria during the war. According to him, he lived in the us for a while and workjed in St. Louis for Anhauser Busch carting stuff.