Tim Blair

Wow, Boucher really said that? Dang, I missed it. I have watched him over the years on C-SPAN and have waited to see him actually answer a question. As the official spokesman of the US State Department anything he says could be interpreted as official US policy. So he takes great care not to answer, any question at great length too. It's amazing to see the guy at work. And the press too.

He described the April meeting as one between "four countries that got together and had a little bitty summit" and then referred to them collectively as "the chocolate makers."

also, four countries -- australia, the US, the UK and spain -- got together earlier this year and decided that invading iraq was a good idea. we shall call them "the war makers".

Is this like an extended axis of weasels?

Oh, adam I'd rather have chocolate than war! (Hugs her teddy bear, which is woven of organically pure hemp and stuffed with recycled Greenpeace leaflets.)

Four countries got together and decided to kick some ass, four others got together and decided to take a dick up theirs. Can you see the difference adam? Loser.

Didn't stop the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys from deploying troops to the Ivory Coast to secure the cocoa trade; the French don't give a grenoille's merde' about liberte'et egalate', but try cutting off their supplies of chockies!
Let's face it- the only chance a Frenchman has of getting a root is with a decent box of chocolates; they're more bath-shy than the poms, plonk is hardly in short supply, and Jean Reno is regarded as good looking.

(PS Don't attempt secondary level French while drinking).

Four countries got together and decided to kick some ass, four others got together and decided to take a dick up theirs. Can you see the difference adam?

well, one group of four countries is kicking some ass, the other group of four countries is being fucked in the ass, i.e., yes, i can distinguish between the groups you propose. but notwithstanding the difference between being an ass-kickor and ass-fuckee, in each case there's still only four countries involved.

also, habib, i don't think anyone seriously disputes that the french are hypocritical. this about seals it.

I don't see the hypocrisy: on the one hand, they support a country with:
- corrupt leaders winning supposedly huge election victories
- terrorist groups allowed to roam within their borders
- restrictions on what people can or cannot say
to have weapons of mass destruction,

and they don't have any problems with Iraq having WMDs either.

"the chocolate makers"

Must... Stop... laughing... must.... breath...

A fun comment, but not entirely new. A few months ago on Fox, Charles Krauthammer said that to him, Belgium is not so much a country as it is a chocolate.

Our State Department?! The Fifth Weasel? They said that? Wow.

Actually, I think of Belgium as more of a waffle.

Hey, BH, you know why they call them Belgian Waffles, right?

They crumbled under the Nazis.

Also, they taste delicious with Vermont maple syrup.

With all the different axis' and now the Gang of Four Chocolate Makers, who makes up the Wheel of Cheese?

Good to see that the Dutch didn't get suckered in. Their Marines are way hard-core, and their Tankers are pretty damn slick in their Leopard 2s.

Chocolate makers. With soft centres.

Considering how 'in' being 'out' is regarding US television programs, I'm surprised he didn't use a comment using "fudge" that would have been considered the ultimate trendy compliment.

Regarding the war markers, would that be the countries that voted on UN resolutions thinking they would have meaning instead of empty bureaucratic masturbation?

So that's cream-filled soft centres.

So this Boucher-nobody refers to Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Germany as "the chocolate makers" huh? Well that's a fine way to unveil his colossal ignorance in the smug manner that has become such a tiresome trademark of the current U.S. administration. Has this geopolitical ignoramus ever actually set foot on foreign soil? Has he heard of Switzerland (Toblerone, Lindt)? Austria (Mozart)? Denmark (Anthon Berg)? Sweden (Marabou, Kex)? Now THOSE are the places to go, among others, if you want some REAL kick-ass chocolate. All Belgium has are those dreadful Guylian "shells" with the shite (oops, I mean "white") chocolate swirled in. (And as we all know, white chocolate is the biggest oxymoron since "compassionate conservative".)

Boucher, Boucher, Boucher. HEY WAIT A MINUTE. That's a FRENCH name!!! I smell a rat. Oh, no wait. It was only Rummy.