Oh, Now you open your mouth - Chirac threatens nuclear response


By Bernie on 20 Jan 2006:


Q: How many Frenchmen would it take to defend Paris? A: It's not known, it's never been tried.

Unprecedented threat: French President Chirac threatens nuclear response to terror attack on French soil. German intelligence: Iran 3-4 years away from acquiring nuclear bomb

France said on Thursday it would be ready to launch a targeted nuclear strike against any state that carried out a terrorist attack on French soil.

In a speech defending France's costly nuclear deterrent and toughening policy against terrorism, President Jacques Chirac said Paris must be able to hit back hard at a hostile state's centers of power and its 'capacity to act'. "Rest of Story Ynetnews



Now who's the cowboy? So will they fire off the nukes before or after they surrender? It seems the French certainly have no idea what the war on terror is about: exactly where is al qaeda's center of power?

Trivia: We didn't need France to go with us into Iraq anyway; know why? Jed Babbin, a former deputy undersecretary of defense in the first Bush administration, during a January 30, 2003 appearance on the political talk show Hardball said, "going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion."

As to the title of this post, you know what President Clinton said to Paula Jones when she squealed on him? "Oh, now you open your mouth!"



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