Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LindyBill who wrote (103531)	6/30/2003 9:21:53 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

But some in the wine business worry that the damage might not be easily repaired. French wines never fully recovered in the Scandinavian market after a 1995 boycott there to protest France's nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific that year. Another brilliant Chirac move, that one. You see, Mitterand had succeeded in passing a moratorium on any further nuclear weapons testing, but Chirac just had to piss on that tree when he won the elections by promptly carrying out a few symbolic nuclear tests on the Mururoa atoll, just to stick it to the Socialists. In short, these nuclear tests were carried out for the most petty of small town political purposes, and had absolutely nothing to do with promoting military security for the French. And it's jerks like Chirac who have been leading the effort to stab the US in the back over this Iraq invasion, all on the moral grounds of "human dignity". ha ha ha..........