France Feeling Effects of Boycott

[danielson]

Is that not simply the nature of the beast, though? Yes. Also, are we obligated to keep using French products? No. If we don't want to, should we have to? No.

I don't boycott their products, but I have no problems with those who do. It's their choice.

Life is not fair. Never was supposed to be.

no you;re not....but then i hope it doesnt come and bite you in the ass. the government hasn't said diddly squat about this boycott....in times of terrorism, and ally like france with its african links is invaluable, and this just drives the 2 countries apart

this country helped found the US, without french support, the brits might have owned the continent for far longer (or the US paid a bloodier price to lberate it). arguably your most famous national place/structure is a french gift....surely old friends can leave water under the bridge. this could really escalate too far but no-one is saying it

they do have choice, but surely they should realise a mob mentality can be harmful, especially to those in france who will be the ones sufering the most. this is when leaders should step in and lead by example

 

[Testosterone boy]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? THE AVERAGE EURO IS FAR MORE ARROGANT REGARDING THEIR OWN ECONOMIC STRUCTURE

BTW.....CAN I PLEASE SUCK YOUR COCK? I HEARD IT IS MAGNIFICENT!

This guy sounds every bit as ghetto bred as kayne. Hmmm.

 

[Testosterone boy]

t-boy,

what the fuck happened to you? you used to make sense, but now you sound like another babbling leftist.

if france and america are supposed to be 'friends and allies', why would they block our attempts at taking out a threat to us? why would de villepine go visiting all of the african countries on the security council to try and persuade them to vote against us?

because they have ILLEGAL economic ties and personal friendships with this country and its former muderous and insane dictator.

do real friend sell out each other like that?

and our government was not the ones responsible for this boycott; it was the american people. why the fuck should we be pouring OUR money into THEIR economy if they are not only not willing to help defend ourselves, but by potentially putting our troops in greater danger by prolonging this political dance at the UN?

their economy was shit before this iraq thing, and we are just adding some ex-lax to it.

fuck them.

I wonder what happened to me as well. Guess the answer is that I don't like the way things are going. There is way too much room for suspicion with the happenings resulting from this administration. Afghanistan now has a president who was a major oil company executive, the one who pushed for the pipeline. Give me a break.

 

[jwill3:16]

They try to boy cot us first... we win

 

[Rx4fun]

C'est dommage!

 

[p0ink]

1. the illegal trade you speak of was beng conducted by their government. this boycotting only hurts people over there, which is what levvies pressure to the president

2. i hope it simmers down and chiraq realises the enormity of the situation. wouldn;t you hate it if you were a vinyard owner who couldnt afford to feed his kids just because his country veto's a war he didnt give a toss about or worse still SUPPORTED?

3. worse still, what if france actually DID object to this on moral grounds. ok, the probably didnt but what if they refused to do the US's bidding because their people were aganst it....something they felt was a threat to world stabilty and was purely in america's self interest and now they get punished for it??

4. what if the boycott goes the other way? america is haemorraging $$$ in the middle east due to boycotts of mcdonalds, KFC, cola etc....you really want a heavily industrialised nation like France exploiting those weaknesses? what about your crippled airline industry? or the retailers that DEPEND on french imports in the US?

5. what message does this send to other allies, particularly the poorer ones? support us or be damned economically? France has lost a good ally for a good few years now....shouldn;t that be enough punishment?

1. yes, it was the government that had illegal ties, but so did private french businesses. by punishing their economy as a whole, the people should look towards the stance their government took on the issue, and punish them accordingly come election time.

2. i would be furious at my elected officials, and i would do my best to make sure they dont get re-elected.

3. they arent being punished by our government; they are being punished by its citizens. it is one thing if france decided to vote against it, but it is another thing to try and thwart us by threatening to veto it, and then taking it a step further to go visit other countries and try to get them to vote against us. not only that, but they also tried to further inspections by another coupls of weeks/months, because they knew it would be too hot to fight a war, and thus we would have to put it off for another year.

4. let france and some turd world middle eastern countries try and boycott us. i forgot how essential it is for a bunch of nomadic terrorists to buy our coke and big macs. let them buy their immitation coke with pictures of arafat on the can, i dont care. we export shit to pretty much every fucking country, so a bunch of piss poor middle eastern countries and some arrogant european country is going to do shit to us.

5. yes! i hope it sends a crystal clear message to other countries. if you dont help and support us, you better not expect shit in return. if other countries piss our country off, we should put them on a state dept shitlist, where they will remain until they start behaving more to our liking. why should we continue to help countries that stab us in our backs? fuck that shit.

 

[Baoh]

this country helped found the US, without french support, the brits might have owned the continent for far longer (or the US paid a bloodier price to lberate it). arguably your most famous national place/structure is a french gift....surely old friends can leave water under the bridge. this could really escalate too far but no-one is saying it

they do have choice, but surely they should realise a mob mentality can be harmful, especially to those in france who will be the ones sufering the most. this is when leaders should step in and lead by example

Bringing up the past is worthless here. This is about individuals choosing not to use particular products. Last time I checked, all people during the Revolution are now deceased. Nobody owes anybody shit anymore.

If a "leader" told me what to buy, I don't think I'd listen.