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Prospects of “French kissing” diminish if you can’t pick up your date in your folks’ new SUV.
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Sending a subtle, reassuring, diplomatic signal that we won’t attack France (because the they don’t have anything we really want).
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New Jersey Congressman James Saxton’s resolution to ban US participation in the Paris Air Show guarantees that struggling US airlines will find lots of bargains in collapsing US aerospace industry.
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Fortunate loophole: not all French fries are imported!
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Xenophobia: Statue of Liberty turned out to be a Trojan horse.
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Oil can be refined without being arrogant.
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If we don’t buy oil from Iraq, how can Iraq buy weapons from us?
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert has pretty much given up on small government, free trade and deregulation having acquired a taste for bright orange warning labels and a state of perpetual fear.
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French timber imports contribute to deforestation and political oppression in Liberia, but the environmental consequences of extracting oil from the Iraqi desert have been minimized through new technologies employed after the Gulf War (Thanks Dick Cheney and Halliburton!).
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Buying Poland Springs water instead of Perrier supports the “New Europe.”
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We’re not importing Iraqi oil, we’re offering it political asylum.
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