French Vandals-Burn Statue of Liberty-Crack 9/11 plaque

[southerngale]

This makes me sick!

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BORDEAUX, France — Vandals in southwest Bordeaux torched a replica of the Statue of Liberty and cracked the pedestal of a plaque honoring victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

The crowned head of the 8-foot-tall statue was blackened by fire and its eyes were marked with red paint, apparently to symbolize tears of blood, an official at the mayor's office said.

The statue and the Sept. 11 plaque are beside each other in a square near the city center.

The mayor of the southwestern city, Alain Juppe, condemned Wednesday's pre-dawn attack, saying the statue's message is especially pertinent in wartime.

"At a time when the world is living a major conflict, it is more important than ever to remain watchful of the values of peace and liberty," said Juppe, a former prime minister.

The Lady Liberty standing in New York Harbor was a gift from France to the United States commemorating freedom and friendship between the nations. It was made by Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated in 1886.

Today, tensions between France and the United States have flared over the war in Iraq. French people overwhelmingly oppose the U.S.-led conflict and President Jacques Chirac angered many Americans by trying to slow the U.S. drive to war.

In France, vandals have ransacked McDonald's restaurants in Paris and Strasbourg, targeting the fast food chain as a symbol of American influence.

Cafeterias in the U.S. House of Representatives subsequently changed their menus to read "freedom fries" instead of French fries and "freedom toast" instead of French toast.

Lawmakers also introduced bills preventing France from participating in any postwar reconstruction projects.

[Rainband]

I cannot say what I want to say so use your imagination!!!!!!!




Johnathan

[j]

So much for the theory that the French people are behind us as Oreilly has led me to believe.

Screw em!

[Stephanie]

Well, at least the mayor had the common decency to condemn the act. They want peace, yet they do that!

[wx247]

That makes me sad.

[sunny shine]

If the French would pay us all the interest they owe us, then we could financially support this war!! They owe us BIGTIME, but yet all the while hollering they are about peace and then they do something like this.

[pojo]

that is sickening that vandals would do such a thing.

[NJWxGuy]

Honestly? I hope Al-Quaeda hits them...Maybe then they'll get the message as it hits home.

[streetsoldier]

Oh, but the French ARE "behind us"....we just haven't dropped our drawers and "K-Y'd" up for them. :o

[wannabehippie]

i read yesterday that the French say they are "ready to step up and help in the post war rebuilding of Iraq"

typical.


peace

david

[azsnowman]

Ya know, something has to give here, I mean, look at ALL the hate in the world today, the French burning a statue, cracking the 9/11 plaque, severe terrorist threats, family troubles (not mine, I know of a BUNCH) stock market headin' down the toliet again, anti war-pro war protestors, famine in Africa, AIDS killing hundreds of 1000's everyday, what's going on? I know ONE possible explanation, I will refrain from posting my thoughts on this, there's those of you who know what I'm talking about I don't know, if God doesn't step in and do something pretty quick, we're gonna wind up whipping ourselves right off the face of the earth!

Dennis

[streetsoldier]

Oh, RIGHT...WE, the Brits, Aussies, Dutch, Danes, Poles and Czechs do all the work so the "frogs" can come and cash in?

If France won't play the game, it shouldn't write the rules afterward.

[Amanzi]

"If France won't play the game, it shouldn't write the rules afterward"

Could not have said it better myself Bill.

[Rainband]

They will be sorry!!!!


Johnathan

[breeze]

Perhaps if they bathed more often,
they could think much more clearly.

[Stormsfury]

Honestly? I hope Al-Quaeda hits them...Maybe then they'll get the message as it hits home.

Exactly, NJWxguy ... then, and only then, will they take their heads out of their @$$ and realize that they (Al-Qaeda) could care less about them also.

Oh, but the French ARE "behind us"....we just haven't dropped our drawers and "K-Y'd" up for them.

That has got to be one of the funniest things I've read. Remind me not to drop anything when they are around.

Perhaps if they bathed more often,
they could think much more clearly.

[JQ Public]

they didn't say the whole country did it just a few vandals. a few americans are protesting the war by breaking the law too...doesn't mean we all don't support the war. too much divisiveness in the world.

[southerngale]

Perhaps if they bathed more often,
they could think much more clearly.

LOL!!