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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (32916)	6/23/2002 3:07:20 PM
From: stock leader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

rotten french better wake up! they laid on their backs to the nazis and now they lay down on their backs to the filthy promiscious arabs!

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (32916)	6/23/2002 4:12:35 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I can blame the French for taking leave of their senses, however. Swallowing absurd 9/11 conspiracy theories The people I know in France think the 9/11 book cited earlier in the thread is pretty silly. I'm not sure who's buying all those copies, but an equally ridiculous book, L'Horreur Economique was an even bigger best seller. I still suspect that the pro-Arab stance has less to do with their Arab constituency and more to do with business dealings with Arab nations, and the thinly disguised desire to go against the US hegemony in one way or another. Many of these vaguely anti-US political games have been more comical than anything in the recent past. Fortunately, as the legislative elections showed, the noise about le Front National was mostly noise after all. They got only a minuscule number of seats, which demonstrates more clearly what the grass roots population is thinking. The communist party is toast at this point (but that was a foregone conclusion when the Wall came down and Moscow could no longer shovel them money, and in light of changing demographics away from the old fashioned uneducated factory workforce and other sources of outmoded class-struggle ideas), and in spite of this the FN couldn't recuperate many of these votes after all.