http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060119/...ms_france_dc_2
Well, is there any outrage about this or because its not the US this is peachy to everyone?
France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060119/...ms_france_dc_2
Well, is there any outrage about this or because its not the US this is peachy to everyone?
RIP Tosa
Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
Read this a couple of hours ago - don't know what got into him, his statements remind me a bit of messageboard-cowboys who frequently want to "turn the Middle East into glass" as a response to terrorist attacks.Originally Posted by Devastatin Dave
Also, I do not quite understand the logic behind not being willing to use nukes in military conflicts but considering it to be an adequate response to terrorist attacks.
Did he drink to much coffee this morning?
Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
The exact phrase I use is "sheet of glass".
Sheet damn you, sheet!
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Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
What thread count? 300, 450?
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Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
I don't see the big deal. If a WMD ever struck LA, Chicago or heck, even San Francisco, I'd hope Bush would be ready to let 'er rip.
The only thing surprising here is that Chirac appears to be using common sense.
Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
Do you think he'd really nuke Texas?
http://www.informationclearinghouse....rticle5350.htm
If you're fighting fair you've made a miscalculation.
Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
Holy frickin sheet!!! You just said sheet to a mod. That's awfully sheety of you.
RIP Tosa
Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
Actually, the end result is only glass if there are large concentrations of silicate present. Much of the area known as the Middle East is not sandy desert (though that is substantial), so I think you'd end up with a mixed sheet of numerous heat-generated compounds.
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Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
In a poll during the Kosovo war most French were found in favor of nuking the whole region and get it over with.
Yes, Iraq is peaceful. Go to sleep now. - Adrian II
Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
Seems pretty sensible to me.
After all, paying for a weapons program that you then declare will never be used saved in the event of your own extirpation is a little silly.
Good Lord, I just said something positive about a French government policy!
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
Nope, no outrage here, because this is France and that is peachy to me. If it were the U.S. I would revert to my Pavlov reflex and start decrying your nation as the crux of evil, the abode of everything decadent, corrupt and villanous on earth, the land of the vain and the home of slavery. But it isn't. So I won't. Not this time round.
The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott
Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
You may be politically around the bend Adrian, but "damn my eyes" if I don't revel in your sense of humor.Nope, no outrage here, because this is France and that is peachy to me. If it were the U.S. I would revert to my Pavlov reflex and start decrying your nation as the crux of evil, the abode of everything decadent, corrupt and villanous on earth, the land of the vain and the home of slavery. But it isn't. So I won't. Not this time round.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
He didn't specifically name nukes. It could be conventional, 'or something else'. They may just flood them with chicks with hairy armpits. But even the french aren't that cruel.
Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
To those of you who are supporting nuclear action: Remember the hamsters.
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=59933
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
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Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
You should be happy Dave, there IS a western country with a worse leader than yours...
You are thinking of Germany.They may just flood them with chicks with hairy armpits.
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
Germany?
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pinten
Down with dried flowers!
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Nah, England. (dear) god shave the queen.
Re: France threatens with nuclear weapons!!!
There is a major problem with this. If Chirac is suggesting a nuke for Iran, you wouldn't just be vaporizing the government there. There are a lot, if not the majority of Iranians that do not have the same beliefs and radical tendencies of the government that governs them. That's a lot of innocent deaths. When the US dropped the bomb on Japan, the population, as a majority, worshipped the Emperor and would fight to the death. Making statements like this does not help the situation. Threatening military action is one thing, but i believe making a statement that even hints to a nuke attack will only hasten Iran to build up a nuclear arsonal. Nukes cannot be an option.
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