PARIS INTIFADA - DAY 10; THE VIOLENCE ESCALATES, OR: "How do you say QUAGMIRE in French?"

EVRY, France (AFX) - Thirty police were hurt, two of them seriously, when they were shot at while responding to unrest south of Paris, officers said. The riot squad officers were hit by buckshot fired from pistols and hunting rifles in the suburb of Grigny. The two badly injured were hospitalized while the 27 others were treated on the spot. One officer was slightly hurt by buckshot in nearby Draveil. A school and a kindergarten were set on fire in the same region, police said, adding that some 30 people were arrested.

The insurrection is burgeoning in scope and fervor and deadliness. At some point, the authorities must present a greater force effect against the perps. Why they haven't yet is NUTS. Do they think it will just burn itself out!?

The French ineffectiveness here - as in the Ivory Coast, and elsewhere has fed the flames. And Chirac's threat to arrest the perp and make them serve jail time is panzy-assed nonsense: French prisons are a hotbed of islamism already; anyone they send there will come out worse.

They need to be ruthless. It will send the right signal: "don't mess with us." Anything short of that just invites further escalation. BTW: I used the word insurrection (above) on purpose: this intifada is a direct threat to the rule of law and the economy of France. Chirac must come to realize that "it's us or them" and the "us" ain' his UMP but French/European France.

More HERE. And HERE. And HERE.

BBC: "US and Iraqis continue offensive"

I think that the headline says a lot - especially coming from the BBC! Iraqis troops are beginning to take the lead in joint operations and soon they will take over the fight and WIN. And they have a constitution, and soon a popularly elected parliament. THIS IS A GREAT CHAPTER IN HUMAN HISTORY. GOD BLESS GEORGE BUSH!

BTW: the fighting has been awesome and our troops and our Iraqi ALLIES have been fantastic (same BBC link):

US and Iraqi forces have fought insurgents house-to-house in a town near Iraq's border with Syria during a major new offensive, the US army says. About 3,500 US and Iraqi troops backed by tanks and fighter aircraft moved into Husayba early on Saturday. A US army spokesman said 17 insurgents had been killed. He said there were no military or civilian casualties.

Thank God.

WHO OUR ENEMY IS IN WW4: evil

HAMMORABI: "This is the latest crimes of the terrorists in Iraq. This baby is 20 days old killed two days ago with all members of his Shiite family who were traveling to visit their relatives in Diyala for the Eid occasion. At least 4 masked cowards; cockroaches emerged from the filth of Al-Qaeda and gunned the family who were inside their minibus. One of them is this 20 days old baby who shot dead directly in his head from the back spraying his brain out."

HAMMORABI has a moving photo of the father holding the baby - and other comments. CHECK IT OUT. It will piss you off - and increase your resolve. We need that to win.

WHILE YOU ARE THERE, check out his post on the impending election:

It is only few weeks to go for the first democratic election to choice a government and national assembly in Iraq. It is expected that the terrorists will also intensify their attacks and efforts to ignite a civil war especially between Sunnis and Shiites. ... The political process is on the move and all the political parties and groups submitted their lists to the Electoral Commission office. ... There are 228 political parties in 21 coalitions however the main coalitions are not more than 5.

RTWT.

FRENCH MEDIA DISTORTS EVENTS TO HURT SARKOZY AND FAN THE FLAMES

HOW DO YOU SAY "DOWDIFICATION" IN FRENCH?

This is from an astoundingly good post from NO PASARAN - my first stop for French reportage on the Paris Intifada:

Nicolas Sarkozy was deliberately demonized in the TV reports of him using his strong language earlier in the week. In fact, there was footage available showing Sarkozy using the word “racaille” (riff-raff) while speaking to an inhabitant of Clichy-sous-Bois who herself had just used the word while expressing how fed up she was with local crime.

Sarko answered her using her own words. In politics, that’s a way of communicating empathy. Her words were edited out and never shown in the insuing days. His weren’t. “Arrêt sur Images” showed the whole exchange today.

Mr. Sarkozy was filmed quietly and calmly speaking to youths from Clichy who were apparently very deferential toward him (calling him Monsieur), eager to talk to him and seemed impressed that he was willing to leave himself unprotected by bodyguards in order to spend some time with them. In a what amounts to a ghetto that’s a sincere display of trust.

That footage didn’t make the news programs simply because the Provisional wing of the CGT got in the way of honest journalism. It didn’t suit their political agenda, and through its’ heavy ideological editing fanned the flames you might see in your nearest car park or bus depot.

The MSM in France is EVIDENTLY as bad and as Leftist and as anti-Amercian as any in Arabia. I think we should call them "Le Jazeera."

THE PARIS INTIFADA SHATTERS ANOTHER LEFT-WING MYTH: "Europe = Good; USA = Bad"

EU Rota linked to and comments on a CHICAGO BOYZ article. It's a must read.

PARIS INTIFADA - POLICE DISCOVER BOMB FACTORY JUST SOUTH OF PARIS

TELEGRAPH (UK): "Police last night found a petrol bomb factory in a southern suburb of Paris, on France's tenth and worst consecutive night of violence. Six youths, all aged under 18, were arrested in a raid on a building in Evry, south of Paris, where more than 100 bottles, gallons of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters' faces were found."

THIS PROVES THAT THE ISLAMOTHUGS ARE ORGANIZED AND THE RIOTS PLANNED.

IT'S ALSO THE EXACT M.O. OF THE ISLAMOFASCISTS IN GAZA AND THE WEST BANK AND IRAQ. THIS IS NO COINCIDENCE.

More HERE.

PARIS INTIFADA - DAY 10: ISLAMOTHUGS STRIKE RIGHT IN THE CENTER OF PARIS

THE TENTH NIGHT.

The French islamothugs have attacked right in the HEART OF PARIS ----

From Agence France-Presse - and a translation by NO PASARAN:

Even in the heart of Paris, four cars were targeted Saturday evening by nothing less than a flame thrower at Rue Dupuis, in the 3rd arrondissement, close to Place de la République, noted one journalist of the AFP.

Maybe this will provoke the French into doing what's necessary...

UPDATE: AP/YAHOO: 28 cars torched inside the heart of Paris!

DISMANTLING THE DEMOCRAT/NYTIMES "al LIBI LIE"

Democrats (led by Senator Levin) aligned with the NYTIMES are leaking what they claim is a smoking gun proving that the Bush Administration started the Iraq War on false premises. The GIST is that "Bush et al and the neocon cabal" were told in February 2002 by the DIA that an al Qaeda captive's intel should not be trusted, and that "Bush et al and the neocon cabal" used it anyhow.

NYTIMES: - "A high Qaeda official in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document."

This is a CROCK OF BULL.

(1) NO SINGLE SOURCE WAS "THE FOUNDATION" FOR THE CHARGE THAT IRAQ TRAINED AL QAEDA MEMBERS TO USE BIO/CHEM WEAPONS.

IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT TRAINING MANUALS WERE FOUND IN AFGHANISTAN WHICH SHOWED THAT AL QAEDA WAS DEVELOPING BIO/CHEM WMD CAPABILITIES. SADDAM HAD EXPERTISE WHICH AL QAEDA - OR ANOTHER JIHADOTERRORIST GROUP - WOULD HAVE USED GIVEN THE CHANCE. BUSH WAS NOT GONNA GIVE THEM THAT CHANCE; BUSH SAID MANY MANY TIMES THAT SADDAM WAS NOT TRUSTWORTHY, AND THAT IN A POST-9/11 WORLD WE SHOULDN'T TAKE THAT CHANCE. HE IS RIGHT.

(2) THE ASSERTIONS BY AL LIBI WERE NOT THE SOLE BASIS FOR ISSUING UNSCR#1441, OR FOR ATTACKING SADDAM.

CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION #141 - AUTHORIZING BUSH TO MAKE WAR AGAINST SADDAM WAS A VERITABLE LAUNDRY LIST OF REASONS -

It was NOT limited to a Saddam/Al Qaeda/WMD operational nexus. Look for yourself. Do any of the following aspects of Joint Resolution #141 depend on al LIBI?! If you are intellectually HONEST you MUST conclude they DO NOT!
Summary od reasons in Joint RES. #141

(a) Iraq's noncompliance with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire
(b) Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and programs to develop such weapons, posed a "threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region"
(c) Iraq's "brutal repression of its civilian population"
(d) Iraq's "capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations and its own people"
(e) Iraq's hostility towards the United States as demonstrated by the 1993 assassination attempt of George Bush Sr, and firing on coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zones following the 1991 Gulf War
(f) Iraq's connection to terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda
(g) Fear that Iraq would provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorists for use against the United States

Even though we haven't found any stockpiles, ands even if Saddam never trained al Qaeda in WMD, these reasons still hold water. THEY ARE ALL STILL TRUE. Note that (g) is the FEAR that this COULD happen, NOT the certainty that IT HAD ALREADY HAPPENED.

(3)THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAS CAREFUL TO STATE - MANY TIMES - THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT SADDAM AND AL QAEDA HAD AN OPERATIONAL RELATIONSHIP.

(4) FOREIGN INTEL SERVICES HAVE THEIR OWN SOURCES, AND NOT ONE QUESTIONED THE ASSERTION THAT SADDAM WAS POSSIBLY SHARING WMD KNOWLEDGE.

(5) al LIBI DID NOT RECANT HIS CLAIMS UNTIL 2004. THOUGH SOME REPEAT SOME ANALYSTS MAY HAVE DOUBTED HIM EARLIER, NOT ALL DID. BUSH BELIEVED - AS I DO NOW - THAT ONE MUST ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION - WHICH MEANS, IN THIS CASE, ONE MUST ASSUME THE WORST, AND HOPE FOR THE BEST.

(6) THE DIA CRITIQUE WAS - IN HINDSIGHT - CORRECT. HINDISGHT ALWAYS IS. As is almost always the case when it comes to INTERPRETING intel, there were PROBABLY others who felt al Libi could be believed. Advice doesn't come in boxes labeled "good" and "bad" - and interpretations of intel don't come in boxes labeled "right" and "wrong."

It's up to the POLICY-MAKERS to choose among varying analyses and differing advice. BUSH CHOSE. In 2003. There was a national referendum on this choice (and his ability to choose) - it's called the election of 2004.

In my mind this post-war debate about the build up to war (what the Lweft sometimes calls "the RUSH to war") is a STUPID MEANINGLESS DEBATE. It's less interesting than debating the true causes of the Civil War or whether FDR knew in advance about Pearl Harbor. THE ONLY REASON THIS DEBATE IS GOING ON IS BECAUSE THE DEM AND THE MSM HAVE "BDS" AND CAN'T GET OVER IT! Their partisan and they want to hurt Bush and the GOP.

To the anti-Bushie Left - which OWNS the Democat Party and still dominates the MSM - the Iraq War is as ILLEGITIMATE as the Bush ELECTION IN 2000! And they are so angry they just can't seem to find the strength to MOVE ON! Pity, they are missing the greatest assertive advance of democracy since Reagan's - which culminated with the Fall of The Berlin Wall in 1989.

What Bush has wrought in Afghanistan and Iraq - and in Libya and Lebanon, and somewhat in Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, (and soon in Syria) - is the FALL OF THE ISLAMOFASCIST WALL. And before this revolution is over it will have liberated as many people as were liberated by the collapse of the USSR.

And I believe that soon after the collapse of The Wall of Islamofascism, will come the fall of the multiculturalism, here and in Europe. Thank God.

More HERE.

IS AN IRANIAN UPRISING BREWING? ARE THE USA AND THE UK BEHIND IT?

BBC:

Ethnic unrest has broken out in Iran's Arabic-speaking province of Khuzestan, according to Iranian media.One newspaper reported that around 200 protesters gathered in the city of Ahvaz to shout anti-government slogans. Iranian news agency Mehr said protesters in traditional Arabic dress threw bottles and rocks at police before ringleaders were arrested. Iran blamed bomb blasts last month and in June across the region, which borders on Iraq, on UK agents.

I hope it's TRUE that the Brits are behind this - AND that we're helping them on this front - and perhaps even have some Special Forces on the ground inside Iran who are targeting or softening up the targets...

[THE BRITS HAVE BEEN COMPLAINING MORE AND MORE OF LATE ABOUT THE IRANIANS - CHARGING THAT THEY'RE AIDING THE "SUNNI INSURGENTS" WITH BOMBS AND BOMB TECHNOLOGY. STAY TUNED... THIUS MIGHT BE ANOTHER LEVER WE USE AGAINST THE MULLAHS...

WILL SENATORS DURBIN, WYDEN, LEVIN AND ROCKEFELLER BE INDICTED FOR LEAKING A TOP SECRET AND HARMING OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE?

Apparently, these three LIBERAL DEMOCRAT Senators leaked info about a top secret CIA satellite. The CIA referred it to the DOJ for investigation. WELL: WHAT'S THE STATUS OF THE INVESTIGATION!?

It seems to me that this might be a much bigger leak with much worse potential harm to our national security than "leaking" the well-known fact that Mrs. Wilson worked at the CIA.

Stories HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.

KRUGMAN AND FRANCE MEET EU-ROTA DURING THE RIOTS

CLICK HERE AND SEE KRUGMAN AND THE FRENCH SOCIAL MODEL HE LOVES IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT! (It links to a brilliantly sarcastic photo-accompaniment to the infamous Krugman column in which he praised the pantalons off France. )

ENDING THE PARIS INTIFADA: IS THERE A GOOD THIRD WAY TO END THE MAYHEM?

The Paris Intifada spreads. Some in France are calling for more dialog (Leftists and "moderate Msulims"), as if that would stop the islamothugs from spreading their mayhem.

Others - like me - have called for a stepped up MILITARY response; we think that the French police have been patient enough. (They should treat the banlieus the way the US Marines treated Fallujah and the IDF treated Jenin.)

Yesterday, Sarkozy - a pale shadow of Rudy, but France's best version nevertheless - threatened the islamothugs with "stiff jail sentences." This threat seems UTTERLY STUPID to me. Besides mosques, prisons are the jihadoterrorists best recruiting grounds!

But perhaps there is a THIRD WAY:

France and the EU can offer a bounty to the residents of the banlieus: in return for them renouncing their French citizenship and A ONE-WAT TICKET back to their nation of origin, France could pay each 10,000 euros. They'd have to agree NEVER TO RETURN TO THE EU.

This would be a bloodless, non-violent, non-cronfrontational way to get them out and keep them out. (It's not unlike how the Israelis got the settlers out of Gaza.)

In spite of the fact that there are 5 million Muslims in France - many of whom (but NOT ALL of whom) live in the banlieues, this wouldn't be as costly as it seems at first. WHY?! Well, this sub-group has, by some measures, a 25% unemployment rate (50% among young men!) and since France has very generous unemployment insurance... KEEPING these people in France ALSO HAS ITS COSTS!

Look at it this way: instead of payng these islamothugs "once a month" to reside in these slums and stay in France - (as France now does, in effect), France could pay them a LUMP SUM to get out and stay out.

There'd be other BIG SAVINGS: reduced property losses, and fewer casualites. And the emptied banlieues could be privatized as condos - (generating some more income for the government, and off-setting some of the costs of getting the islamothugs to leave).

ARE YOU LISTENING CHIRAC!? Villepin?! Sarkozy!?

UPDATE/ADDENDUM: The reason I thought of this approach is because France CAN'T deport most of these islamothugs because they're "citoyens." This is a novel way to "deport" this islamomalcontents/misfits/subversives; it's a sort of "VOLUNTARY EXILE." I have a feeling that with a check for 10,000 euros many Muslim nations might take these reverse-immigrants - and some of them might make some good of themselves... well a few. Maybe. ALSO: Other EU nations could use the same method. Denmark, the UK, Holland, Italy, Spain, Sweden - all the EU countries with large maladjusted Msulimpopulations... It's really NOT a horrible idea; after all, I'm only suggesting that they offer money to these malcontents so they can go HOME - or go back to their ancestral home.

PARIS INTIFADA - DAY 9 CONTINUED...

Items of note HERE and HERE and HERE.

IMHO: The French must treat these "islamothugs" in the banlieues the way the Marines treated the islamothugs in Fallujah and the IDF treated them in Jenin: brutally and with the full force and fury of their military. Any message short of that KEEPS sending the wrong signal and will only encourage the initfada to spread throughout Europe and to grow into a full-fledged INSURGENCY!

MAR DEL PLATA RIOTERS LOVE TYRNANNICAL TROIKA

The uninvited Castro and long-dead Che are the heros of the RIOTERS in mar del Plata. Along with Leftist "strongman" HUGO CHAVEZ. (More on rioting HERE and HERE)

FITTING: those who oppose trade and foreign investment (the very things which lifted Red China out of poverty and starvation, for example) LOVE 2 murderous tyrannical Leftists - and one aspiring one! Castro and Che bequeathed nothing but suffering: When Castro took over Cuba it was the richest nation in the Caribbean - now it is the second poorest - only Haiti is worse. That's no surprise: tyranny reaps poverty; propserity is the by-product of liberty!

These anti-trade/anti-American rioters HATE BUSH. That's fitting too: he's the democratically elected leader of a FORMER COLONY COMPRISED OF IMMIGRANTS WHICH - BECAUSE OF LIBERTY AND TRADE - IS THE RICHEST NATION ON EARTH! We stand for everything they hate. And all the other former colonies that have become free AND RICH: Canada; Australia; India; China - they ALL became richer with the INCREASE OF LIBERTY AND TRADE. Despite "the legacy of colonialism."

The former colonies which are less free are less rich: from Rhodesia/Zimbabwe to Cuba, to Vietnam, and so on. The former satelites/colonies of the USSR are perfect examples, too: their standards of living - LOW UNDER LEFTIST REGIMES - went up as they became more open, more free, and traded more.

And "standard of living" for the masses is what Leftism (Marxism, socialism; Maoism; Stalinism etc) was supposedly ALL ABOUT. Yet time after time after time Leftism has FAILED TO DELIVER THE GOODS. This doesn't stop Leftists from hawking their SNAKE OIL! As they're doing in Mar del Plata.

And when the Leftists parade - RIOT, I should say - with posters of CHE - and when they chant anti-trade tirades, the Leftists PROVE they have it EXACTLY BACKWARDS. They in fact support policies which make things worse, and they oppose policies which make things better. YUP: The Left has it EXACTLY BACKWARDS. They always do!

KOFI POSTPONES TEHRAN TRIP!

Our outcry worked! BBC: "UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has postponed a scheduled trip to Iran, after the Iranian president called for Israel to be "wiped off the map". It was "not an appropriate time" for the UN chief to visit Iran, said Mr Annan's spokesman, Stephane Dujarric. "

Moral clarity is a necessary precondition for maintaining the resolve necessary to win WW4. Kofi's postponement (albeit under duress!) sends the right message: genocidal-mania will not be tolerated. Though it would have been MUCH better if he had CANCELED.

THE BEST THING: The USA should demand that the UNSCR issue a general ultimatum: "Member states must stop support for terror or be kicked out of the UN!"

"EURABIAN CIVIL WAR" OR "INSURGENCY" OR INTIFADA?

NO PASARAN links to a few articles which cpontend that France is at the front of the EURABIAN CIVIL WAR.

I dunno. For there to be a war there has to be TWO SIDES FIGHTING, and as of yet I haven't seen the Euros really fight back. Until the French go into these banlieues like the IDF went into Jenin and the US MARINES went into Fallujah this is a one-way fight!

I think - as in Iraq (which has also AVOIDED a true civil war) - what we're seeing is merely an intifada - or perhaps, to use a Euro-word: INSURGENCY. Though I like the word intifada more - because it is Arabic, it has more relevancy.

YES, IMHO: there are TWO MAJOR FRONTS IN WW4 RIGHT NOW:
(1) "The Sunni Intifada"; and (2) "The Eurabian Intifada".
You heard it here first.

(PS: there are other currently low-level intifadas in WW4, in: Afghanistan; Southern Thailand; the Philippines; Kashmir; Israel; Chechnya; and Bosnia - to name JUST A FEW!)

WILSON'S NATIONAL PRESS CLUB APPEARANCE: MORE LIES

I saw this pseudo-presser, and have been looking for a transcript ever since. Wilson LIED AND LIED AND LIED AND LIED! Well... SOMEONE ELSE TAPED IT AND HAS A REVIEW WITH EXCERPTS: ERROR THEORY (hat tip POWERLINE):

Wilson is guilty of treason, over and over again retailing malicious disinformation about the nation's war effort, and the main organs of the mainstream media keep proving themselves eager to abet. ...

Wilson lies have long since been exposed, first by then CIA director George Tenet, the week after Wilson's original op-ed:

He [Joseph Wilson] reported back to us that one of the former Nigerian officials he met stated that he was unaware of any contract being signed between Niger and rogue states for the sale of uranium during his tenure in office. The same former official also said that in June 1999 a businessman approached him and insisted that the former official meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between Iraq and Niger.

The former official interpreted the overture as an attempt to discuss uranium sales.

Wilson's lies about having debunked the President's sixteen words were also painstakingly documented in the Senate Intelligence Committee report on pre-war intelligence assessments. How did the room-full of reporters react to being the vehicle for the repetition of known lies? They laughed and applauded.

The shameful low point for the Press Club was the "question and answer" session. No questions from the attendees were allowed. Press Club President Rick Dunham spoon fed Wilson a series of friendly questions, hand picked to lead Wilson into additional segments of his prepared screed. The curtain dropped entirely when Wilson let slip that he already knew the second question. Here is the revealing moment, transcribed from my tape of the speech:

Joe Wilson: ... Now with respect to the second question? Was Rove resign? [Sic.] Was that there?

Rick Dunham [sotto voce]: That's coming up.

JW [sotto voce]: Oh, that's coming up. [Then in full voice, realizing everyone has heard]: I read the question.... I read it over his shoulder.

RD: That's... right-heh… Should Karl Rove resign and...
[Interrupted by audience laughter. JW and RD also laugh, but without pausing as they hurry past the naked moment.]

This is a news organization? EVERY question was a leading puffball. "Have you been threatened?" "Should Bush be impeached?" Remember how they made a front page scandal out of American soldiers working out who would answer what type of question from the President? I'm sure they will be really outraged that an accuser telling known lies got to pick which questions he would be asked. Oh wait a minute. They were there. And they tittered and applauded and welcomed every false gesture.

It's hard to say what the low point for Wilson was, but it is worth exposing his newest disinformation about the forged documents. See Stephen Hayes’ recent Weekly Standard article for the sequence of lies that Wilson pedaled to several reporters in the Spring of '03, claiming to have discovered in Niger that the intelligence about Iraqi attempts to buy uranium ore had been based on forged documents. There were indeed some forged documents, which may have been concocted by the French to try to undermine the U.S./British case against Saddam Hussein, but these did not come into U.S. possession until October 2002. Wilson's trip to Niger was in February 2002. (Some claim the forgeries were concocted by the Italians, but either way, they played no role in Wilson's trip.)

Every assertion by ERROR THEORY is linked/footnoted. He even has a link to a statement by former DCI Tenet which DEBUNKS WILSON! RTWT.

LA HAINE

LA HAINE is a 1995 movie. POWERFUL. Rent it if you want to get a sense of the feelings in the French Arab "ghettoes." BTW: LA HAINE means THE HATE." AND KEEP IN MIND: The film was made BEFORE Jihadoterrorism became an international force mobilizing the discontented and disconnected Muslim youths of Paris.

THE WILSON-JIHADOTERRORIST CONNECTION

Joe Wilson's office was in the offices of a convicted financial backer of Hamas, and al Qaeda. There's MORE: RTWT. NOW. [The connection is Alamoudi.]

DID THE BUSH TAX CUTS INCREASE OR DECREASE FEDERAL REVENUE?

REVENUE WAS UP IN 2004, AND WAY WAY UP IN 2005. FACTS HERE.

KATRINA AND THE PARIS INTIFADA

POWERLINE linked to a editorial in the NYSUN:

Back in the 1990s, the French sneered at America for the Los Angeles riots. As the Chicago Sun-Times reported in 1992: "the consensus of French pundits is that something on the scale of the Los Angeles riots could not happen here, mainly because France is a more humane, less racist place with a much stronger commitment to social welfare programs." President Mitterrand, the Washington Post reported in 1992, blamed the riots on the "conservative society" that Presidents Reagan and Bush had created and said France is different because it "is the country where the level of social protection is the highest in the world." How the times have changed. Muslims in Paris's suburbs are out shooting at police and firefighters, burning cars and buildings, and throwing rocks at commuter trains.

I think we DON'T have to go bac as far as the 1992 LA riots to expose Euroleftie hypocxrist, anti-Americanism, and utter inanity: they said basically the same things about Bush and Katrina - because it took 4 days for the state, local an federal authorities to get meaningful aid into the worst hit areas, becasue of the scenes of underclass people suffering at the Superdome, and because of the looting in New Orleans. Here are a few reminders:

MSNBC: The French daily Liberation described the scenes of devastation as a cruel spectacle for President Bush, “the champion of security.” Criticizing the disorder in the evacuation of hospitals, the editorial called Hurricane Katrina a “natural disaster with political implications.” Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden “must be dying of laughter,” it said. Astonishment at ‘anarchy and chaos’ -- In Italy, several newspapers said mounting criticism of Bush’s handling of the relief effort was damaging his credibility. And Germany’s Die Tageszeitung said the world was “seeing scenes otherwise only known in African capitals. The forces of order are absent. Anarchy and chaos reign. Supermarkets are plundered, helicopters shot at.” Some said perceived U.S. indifference to global warming was coming home to roost.“What’s absent is a debate over the climate, over Kyoto, over the human-caused warming of the earth,” said an editorial in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, a Munich-based daily. “But the oil shortage caused by the disaster will hurt Bush more than gaps in climate policy will.”

DER SPIEGEL: After Hurricane Katrina bashed America's Gulf States and left New Orleans a sunken wasteland, [German Environmental Minister Jürgen] Trittin wrote an editorial lashing out at US President George W. Bush for "closing his eyes" to the dangers of global warming. The polemic began with the line, "Recently in the theaters, now in real life," and went on to compare the scenes of Hurricane Katrina to Roland Emmerich's Hollywood blockbuster "The Day after Tomorrow."

French TV stations were among the MOST vicious in their attacks on the USA: The ultimate in intellectual journalism. Jean-Marie Colombani, editorial director of the newspaper of record Le Monde, in the company of his distinguished colleague Alain Frachon, informed in real time by their man in New Orleans, broadcasting on the elegantissimo radio station appropriately named France Culture. The program is called “Rumeurs du Monde.” (Got it? Le Monde the newspaper, le monde the world!) It’s the cat’s pajamas. And the subject of a recent episode was, you guessed it, Katrina or, more exactly, the failure of the United States Government to predict, react, succor, and repair the damage caused to the hapless victims of Katrina. Listen in as themes that had been crudely developed in the mass media are now suavely treated in the stratosphere of France Culture:

They are so knowing! Seen from here, my dear friend, it is all too obvious. We would have known what was coming, and what to do about it. But Bush, my goodness, what a failure. No wonder his ratings crashed. Hmm, yes, crashed, truly crashed. Hmm yes, no wonder.

Well, last time I checked NO CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE HAS EVER HIT PARIS OR FRANCE (DESTROYING AN AREA THE SIZE OF THE UK), AND YET THEY'VE HAD MORE THAN A WEEK OF EXTREMELY SERIOUS RIOTING! And in the past NINE (9) days, the French have yet to make a single move to thwart the riots, and they grow in severity and breadth everday.

The French hypocrites and appeasers - the "more enlightened" and chic Euro appeaserati are getting EXACTLY what appeasers and hypocrites ALWAYS get: a severe dose of REALITY. Maybe it will wake them up, and turn them away from appeasement? (Well... I can dream, can't I??)

PARIS INTIFADA DAY 9 - SPREADING THROUGHOUT FRANCE

NOVINITE: "The violence that wracked Paris suburbs over the past week spread to new areas outside the capital for the first time."

FOXNEWS: "... reports of unrest also surfaced north of Paris in the Normandy region and to the east in Burgundy, according to France-Info radio. ... A bus depot was set on fire to the west of Paris in the town of Trappes, incinerating 27 buses, authorities said."

BBC: "Thursday night's incidents occurred in several towns to the north-east and west of the capital, including Aulnay-sous-Bois. ... Elsewhere in France: Cars torched in the eastern city of Dijon. Sporadic trouble reported in areas close to Rouen and Marseilles."

FACT: In every case - in all the locations, the rioters are mostly Muslim. Yet somehow - according to the CW and the MSM - the problem is poverty or unassimilation - BUT: (1) there are many more non-Mulsim UNEMPLOYED than Muslim unemployed and the non-Mulsims ARE NOT RIOTING, and (2) the PARENTS of these unassimilated Muslim YOUTHS never rioted like this. I argue the parent's generation didn't riot like this because they were poor and unassimilated BEFORE THE ERA OF JIHADOTERRORISM.

The ideology of hate is the key to these riots. That and the fact that years of appeasement of Muslim thug regimes (like Assad and Arafat and Kaddafy and Saddam and the Ayatollah - who lived in Paris before returning to Iran) and local Muslim thugs by the French authorities (so-called) have only made the problem worse - and the perps more bold. IT ALWAYS DOES.