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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richnorth who wrote (21735)	3/2/2003 8:21:46 PM
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Freedom-Shit has created Freedom Fries and Freedom Dressing No more French fries - it's Freedom fries By Paul Zach French dressing becomes Liberty dressing French wines are taken off the menu Advertisement THE menu at Cubbie's restaurant in this small coastal town on the Atlantic Ocean has been revised. The adjective 'French' has been crossed out deliberately, and obviously, in front of the word 'fries'. 'Freedom' has been scrawled by hand in its place. There is no longer French dressing on the menu either. Cubbie's franchise owner Neal Rowland, 26, changed its name to Liberty dressing. Mr Rowland's decision reflects growing frustration here with French resistance to attempts by the United States to convince some old allies to join a possible war on Iraq. He said he recalled that earlier wars had spawned name changes: hot dog not only replaced frankfurter when Germany was the enemy in World War I, the name has stuck in the US. He was discussing this with a friend who taught history at a nearby high school. 'I looked at him and said 'We can change history',' said Mr Rowland. Little did he realise how true that was. The move seems to have spawned another French Revolution in this southern American state, once noted for tobacco-growing but now home to top universities such as Duke. Cubbie's restaurants in Greenville and Wilmington soon had Freedom fries on their menus, too. In Winston-Salem, a country club removed wines from France and Germany, another country that has resisted the American call to arms against Iraq. The High Point Country Club near the state capital Raleigh followed suit, removing 25 of its 70 wines from the cellar, although it did not alter its wine lists. Meanwhile, the owner of Jean Claude's French cafe, Ms Therese Freeman, 69, was more concerned about losing business. A native of France, she put the blame on her fellow countrymen. 'You know the French, they are arrogant,' she said. 'They want to be the best.' Americans in other parts of the country are also raising their voices. Among them is the host of a radio talk show who calls himself Cigar Dave and broadcasts from Tampa, Florida. 'I am not buying any French products. I am not buying German products. 'German cars, French wine, out of the question,' he said on his nationally syndicated show Smoke This!, which is broadcast every Saturday on more than 90 radio stations across the US. 'And I'm not going to have any Belgian waffles. That's out as well. 'Any country that doesn't stick by us in this critical time in our nation's history, I will tell you I am not going to stand by them,' he said. But there was one product Cigar Dave did uncork. 'I have in my hand a bottle of Spanish wine that I will tell you about later as our luscious libation of the week,' he said. 'Why? Well, Spain is with us. As President George W. Bush said early on, you are either with us or you are with the terrorists. Spain is with the United States of America. I'm taking a clear stand on this.'