Chirac up NOW!

[prolesunited]

This should be interesting.

[Mari333]

1. WITHOUT NAMING NAMES

He is trashing BUSH! wahooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[berner59]

2. rude that Bush didn't stay...

Bush asks for help and then books it out of there... Disrespectful...

[Skip Intro]

4. He doesn't care what they think

arrogant moron that he is

I'm so embarrassed for my country

[ignatius]

23. And cowardly. Come to think of it, that pretty

much sums up W. if you add arrogant and ignorant to the description.

[Don_G]

45. Yep

UN building, air traffic, contanimated air from the WTC collapse and millions of New Yorkers wanting an answer about THAT!

[rocktivity]

3. Ooops, I smell another Bush spanking going on!

rocknation

[prolesunited]

5. Talking about the importance and effectiveness of multilateralism

Now this sounds like a statesman.

[berner59]

9. statesman indeed..

Even in French he presents a better image of a leader... He still wants inspectors to go there...he talks of Korea...Iran... What did Bush talk of?? Kids being vaccinated and girls being sold as sexslaves...hmmm....

[rucky]

21. Oh Yeah...Forgot All About N. Korea

that's my Bush! so forgetful sometimes. then again, when i get to thinking about sex slaves, i tend to lose myself as well.

[AlinPA]

6. He blasted unilaterism in the first 2 minutes.

Hammering away for multilaterism

[Spentastic]

7. Selling out

Here we go..... The U.N appear to have been cowed

[rocktivity]

8. Do not succumb to a show of might...

We reject the policy of fait accompli...

Sacre bleu!

[Mari333]

11. asking Korea and Iran to dump their Nuke programs?

How about asking the US and Israel to dump theirs..?

[kentuck]

10. Chirac wants a plan...

to permit sovereignty for the Iraqi people and to allow elections. He says US should maintain control of security.

[Mari333]

13. Chirac cant believe for a second that the US corporations and BFEE

will give up their contracts and oil..

[WilliamPitt]

12. CNN CUT HIM OFF

Ah ah ah speechless.

[prolesunited]

14. Why, of course

He's FRENCH!!! What do those cheese-eating surrender monkeys know anyway?

[Mari333]

15. That is why Im watching C Span

! the hell with the mediawhores

[bicentennial_baby]

17. CSPAN bro

that's where the action's at!

ps did'nt you turn CNN off? :P

[WilliamPitt]

20. I turned it back on like a Jackass

to catch Chirac.

On C-SPAN now.

[VelmaD]

18. No cable here...

what on earth are they showing instead?

[prolesunited]

22. There's a link

on CSPAN that allows you to watch it live on your desktop. I'm at work and that's how I'm watching it. Funny, haven't gotten much work done.

[VelmaD]

26. I meant what is CNN showing instead.

I'm being a bad State employee and watching on C-SPAN on the net. :-)

[rocktivity]

28. Here's the link

http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS&ShowVidDays=30&ShowVidDesc=

[Iverson]

19. you know ...

When I was growing up, I learned that people in the iron curtain countries weren't allowed to hear the viewpoints of the democratic west, especially the USA.

Thankfully, it's the other way around for us.

[wtmusic]

29. Isn't Paula Zahn more influential than Chirac anyway?

I just loved her breathless comment, "I wish I could be at those bilateral talks this afternoon!". I though she might swoon.

[lebkuchen]

36. Wow. That says a lot about CNN. Chirac's speech struck gold.

It was eloquent, mature, detailed, compassionate, and hopeful.

CNN is Pravda.

Do try to listen to Chirac's speech on audiofile. It was truly eloquent, and spoken in a positive unfearful tone that Americans have grown so unaccustomed to.

[cprise]

38. Why let him deliver the message himself

...when our press will gladly slice his words up and serve them to us a-spinning, replete with omissions and inappropriate juxtapositions?

[gottaB]

16. Security council reform

provocative

[kentuck]

24. Basically he said it is simply not acceptable to act unilaterally...

As if one person has the answers to all the problems...

[Mari333]

25. Much louder applause then the Shrub got!

!

[Laughing Mirror]

32. thank you Mari for answering my question

i phased out and did other things when Bush came on and i didn't notice applause

but when Chirac finished his "Let us establish this global democracy, so vital in our day and age" i heard a burst of sustained applause and wondered to myself, Did anybody even clap for Bush?

It is clear that Chirac represents the majority opinion of all nations

[prolesunited]

27. I was impressed with Chirac

I think his approach is the way to create a saner, better world. Was it just me or was his applause louder and longer than for Bush?

[caledesi]

30. The applause was definitely louder and longer. *'s was "polite"

[ElsewheresDaughter]

31. WOW! what a great speech....wish he was our president instead of chimpo

elequent and compassionate towards ALL humankind....chimp is a prick and a RUDE MORAN!!!!!

[lebkuchen]

35. I agree, Chirac's speech was a keeper

Makes Chimpy look like an adolescent.

Joe Biden was very critical of France on the Today Show yesterday. What's his problem? He'd better either get on board with fixing this mess the US started and stop pandering to the rightwing agenda, or retire.

[lebkuchen]

33. An excellent speech--full of hope and glory

as opposed to Bush's incessant doom and gloom.

JFK couldn't have done better. I have the impression Chirac wrote this speech himself and feels passionately about the words, while Bush was simply parroting what his handlers were mandating him to say.

Chirac reprimanded Bush as a parent would a child: unilateral temper tantrums are not in the world's best interest.

Go France!

[ignatius]

37. Did he really say unilateral temper tantrum? That is tooo

funny.

[lebkuchen]

40. No, that was my interpretation.

Chirac was very diplomatic, and said, essentially, that we have no civilization, no peace, if UN members don't themselves abide by their own written laws. He back-handed Bush for his unilateral approach-- which has brought disaster upon the U.S., and perhaps the world.

[ignatius]

41. Thanks for the update, although I still like

your interpretation.

[Laughing Mirror]

43. the interpreter did a very good job rendering Chirac's emphasis and

intonation the way he places them

these are very much his words
i'm sure Chirac wrote the speech himself
he is after all a professional homme d'etat

[BonjourUSA]

46. I don't imagine Chirac not writing his speech himself

Especially in this circumstances !

Our politicians are used to write their speeches themselves except for some local ones. Or when they have several speeches in a short time, they write the most important.

[Laughing Mirror]

34. "culture of confrontation must give way to a culture of action"

he said

and then went on talk about reforming the UN to give the Sec Council a face-lift

[lebkuchen]

39. A civilized way of approaching problems, don't you think?

I can't say enough about Chirac's speech. It was so heartening.

[spanone]

42. None of the networks, cable or other carried the whole speech. Only Cspan

What a country we live in. shameful.

[prolesunited]

44. Of course they didn't

We can't infect viewers' minds with opposing viewpoints. Our fuhrer's way is the only way.