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LO

If Iran keeps on enrichment of Uranium programm, I don't think that Europe would condemn an US or Israeli airstrike, as nobody in Europe would be pleased to have ayatollahs owning nukes.

I'm not even quite sure that people in Teheran wouldn't see a strike at Iran with real displeasure, lots are tired of mollahs' dictatorship.

LO

I don't agree, It must be the result of much hate and anger to act so wildly

Bombs in the general public wins no hearts and minds, be on coalition side with air raids as well as on terrorists side with suicide bombers

"continual prescence in Iraq" aren't other words for "occupation" ?

It's a strange twist of mind to declare that "the biggest enemy is world and public opinion", world and public opinion don't kill

LO

During theses days, Saddam went at war at Iran without any disapprovals from the West.
He was the good guy who attacked the ennemies of USA

LO

Earthfirst, you're a liar : It's the british Daily Mirror that had the title
"http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/docs/Mirror/0007ACB8-ADCE-118B-9E4F80C328EC0000.pdf] How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb ?"

I'm french and said "Good luck to Bush"
We don't have a monopoly on stupid reactions (though we try hard    )
It doesn't seem very immoderate a reaction compared with the usual french bashers' ones, after all.

(If you confuse London and Paris, I understand better why your troops are in Irak instead of Iran, where WMD are being assembled...some of texan logic ?)

LO
The three hurricanes that recently swept coasts of America may had an influence on Bush reelection, after each storm, was an opportunity for the president and brother pay a to visit to the victims and show they were taking care.
Florida was among the most striked, gaining Florida would have open White House doors to Kerry.
no ?
that's a question.
another question, do hurricanes vote reps ?  ??? 
I'm anxious, earth warming means more an more hurricanes 

About security, I'm amazed when I see on TV so many of these little piggie things, made with wood and plaster pannels, assembled on cleats, you call a house, crushed by Big Wolf's blow.
In Europe, we almost all live in concrete houses, and few of them would be flat crushed by 160 mph winds.
I'm impressed to know that millions of people evacuate the hurricane route.
When we had "La Grande Tempête" with 160 mph winds, tens of houses were destroyed, not thousands, though plenty were severely dammaged, mainly by fall of trees.
May be that's America : "vous faites les choses en grand"
In France, before building a house, plans must be sent to the mayor and accepted. If plans are signed by an architect, authorization is easy to get, if signed by a private citizen, the mayor should consult an architect before signing his authorization. An architect signed house has his guaranty for ten years.

Other point, the american average middle class wooden houses that I see on TV, no shutters, no trebble points locks, no walls around the house, give me a feeling of insecurity, the feeling than any vilain could break in by any window or by a shoulder hit or a kick at the door.
Then, buying a gun is less expansive than securing such houses.
Here we would rather put metallic shutters and alarms, may be some remindings of the times of the "chateau forts".

Last about security: remember the Air France jet the algerian terrorists had taken under control until french police assaulted the plane. The terrorists wanted to crash it over Paris, maybe on the Eiffel tower or the Elysée presidential palace.
Why US intelligence and security services didn't take good notice of that kind of threat ? This could happen only to froggies ?

LO

How that ? do you mean that some weaponmaniac* can shoot at Bush ?
*having easily bought an assault gun thanks to NRA
Or that a terrorist gang could crash a jetplane over White House, showing that war on terror didn't reach any valuable target ?

LO

The CERN's LEP big ring has a 17 miles diameter. The tunnel is build partly under France and Switzerland.

LO

The traditionnal froggy say that big american limousines do not fit his cities and that US GPS doesn't allow a french drunkard to put the key in the keyhole with enough precision when going back home 
And that's a major reason indeed.

LO
To all Dems, take it easy, if you want to relax, you know that you are welcome to France.
Here in Paris, you can still sit at the terrasse of a café and light a cigarette, it's ok
you can cross the street when no car's coming whatever the coulour of the traffic light is, it's ok
You can ride your bike on the pavement, if you don't excess the speed of a running man, it's ok
gays can have an official civil union with much of the rights of a marriage. it's ok
a gay mayor can rule Paris, it's ok
one can smoke a joint without risking years of jail though it's stricly forbidden 

LO
USA has participation in LHC, and maybe you will be abble to run a GRID program in your PC to analyse the experiments results as I actually run Seti@home on my computer. Maybe in the future a larger particle accelerator should be built with a 200 miles diameter, and USA offers much more space than Europe.

Hi Shaun
It's so easy to amalgamate Irakis which take arms against foreigners who invade them with real faithless and lawless terrorists.
I think you don't realise the real bravery of an Ikarki insurgee rising against the power of the US army, that has nothing in common with the odious cowardry of the terrorists.
Not any american citizen would deny the right of anybody in the world to rise up against a foreign invasion.
It's so comfortable to say that any dead Iraki is a terrorist.
Democracy is indeed a better idea than dictatorship.
I suppose that you a are a better man than these terrorists.
That your values are much higher than the terrorists' ones.
So, if democracy settlement should be paved with so many innocent's corpses, which kind of democracy are you talking about ? Wich kind of values are you defending ?
Is it up to you to determine which price the Irakis should pay for democracy ?
If you think that only one iraki child killed to set democracy there is acceptable, then, I'm not at your side, I don't share the same values as you. Definitively not.
Same for CC.
There are other means to set democracy in countries ready for democracy and people willing to get rid of tyrans have done velvet revolutions as in Eastern Germany, against the communist regime, against Milosevic in Serbia, against Chevardnadze in Georgia... without any blood pouring.
If a mass revolt had rose against Saddam's regime, then, any foreign expeditionnary corp would have really been welcome as liberators and supported by local populations, and the international community. USA would have been supported and helped by many more countries and would have been the leader of a larger coalition than for Gulf War One.
Therefore, I regret to claim that this war is a war at Irak and Irakis, has nothing to see with a liberation war, nor a war at terrorism, it's just a death and oil stinking war.

LO
Japan and France compete for the location where the http://www.iter.org/]ITER research fusion reactor is to be build.
French arguments are quite good, as detaining the highest plasma temperature record, with a top nuclear technology, and as a location in Japan would increase the costs of the reactor by heavy antisismic securities.
The french proposal of Cararache, a vast nuclear research plant, where US plutonium is actually retreated, with an attractive mediterranean climate, is supported by Europe, Russia and China, the japanese proposal is supported by USA, Japan and Korea
French government sees US support to Japan as a sanction against France for not sending troops in Irak and as a reward to Japan for sending troops.
French government seems determined to force a decision even without USA, Japan and Korea
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0 … 317,0.html

Maybe a bluff from Chirac  ???