``Watching France's self-serving politics of passive aggression in this effort has discouraged me more than I can say,'' Jones said.
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That's right. We're the victims of French aggression. In fact we're victims of Iraqi aggression and that's why we're going to toast them.
See, this is why Tom Lehrer thought satire was dead. It just can't keep up.
It never would have occurred to me that a comic routine or a satire could be founded on the premise that Americans are victimized by the French---and that an effective means of resisting this oppression would be for Congress to change their cafeteria menu item from French Fries into Freedom Fries.
How would you introduce the idea on stage that the source of this oppression was the French refusal to sign up to commit crimes against humanity with Americans. Nobody would believe it even long enough to laugh at it.
In any event, we are therefore oppressed by the French because they apparently don't like the idea of barbecuing the Iraqis for nothing. The French keep asking for reasons, and we keep telling them they don't need reasons. Shit, Iraqis are Iraqis, what other fucking reason do you need!
Imagine that. The picky bastards want reasons. To hell with them.
Charles Grimaux