Originally Posted by roachboy

Konichiwaneko:

its funny you talk about the french government in a way that implies you see it as somehow on the left when chirac is politically not that different from a moderate (sane) republican. of course there is the fact that chirac's government did not swallow to load of shit handed to the un security council by the bush administration....this did not make chirac suddenly a leftist--it just made his government appear as though they were taking their position on the unsc seriously and actually weighing evidence--which the americans did not provide.

then of course, there was sustained smear campaign that followed, courtesy of the whole range of rightwing media outlets and thinktanks, that shaped the domestic american view of what actually happened--a campaign that hinged on the assumption that most americans neither know nor care about anything in particular to do with french politics. so it follows, your position.

you would, i suspect, get along quite famously with lots of folk on the right in france. particularly with folk from the front national, if you actively support the bush variety of rightwing american politics.

as for the last post, i confess it makes little sense to me, but tant pis, i am not being addressed in it so it does not have to.