French Fries vs Freedom Fries

TAhmed: Exactly.

gullu gullu: You write ``nations exercising their will without infringing on rights of others`
I think you mean ``dictators exercising their will``. If you really knew what you were writing about, you would not equate the Iraqi nation with the dictator Saddam Hussein.

And finally, the dreaded ``Hamburger`` too might find itself transformed

into a ``Texas Patriot Patty``.


Ras

Ansari #11 At our office cafeteria, I had for many years seen French Toast labelled as Texas Toast and assumed that this was simply one of those little switches one sees when crossing the atlantic, with the first floor sinking to become the ground floor, and the electricity changing from a tooth-shattering 220 to a mere hair-raising 110, and so forth.

correction to my post below... of course the first floor does not sink to the ground floor in the US, it in facts sits where it is supposed to sit, on the first floor.
But dont mind me: When I am not paying attention, I also drive on the right hand side in Pakistan. And on the left hand side in the US. And I turn the car vipers on when I mean to turn on the lights in both countries, since car vipers are where gears should be in right hand cars that they drive in left hand countries. And just when you get used to cars in Pakistan, you come back to the US and and they switch vipers again. Thankfully I dropped the damned silent ``u`` that the brits stick into every other word and which someone in the US wisely took out. However, I wish the same wise bloke (or guy, the US equivalent) had taken the damned unsilent ``c`` out of the language altogether (``c`` is either posing as an ``s`` or a ``k`` anyway, and so kan safely be taken out.)
And then we come to ``potatoes`` and ``potaaaatoes``. I think I need not go on any further and get back to do some honest work.

Urstruly:

What if? What if the Iraqi army does not put up a fight? What if the Republican Guard surrenders?

What if the citizens of Basra celebrate the liberation of their city by Americans?

Will you then apologize to the Iraqi people for defending a monster?

BTW, in this specific post I am not defending the administration.

My personal opinion is that if I was a citizen of India, living in an India ruled by a Bal Thackeray, an individual who had gassed minorites such as Muslims, an individual whose sons ran rampant and thought that the country was their Baap kee Jagir, then Urstruly, I would have begged with God for an American invasion. That is why I am not a hypocrite.

In the same situation however, if Bal Thackeray was the dictator of India, and he ruled India with an iron fist as Saddam does Iraq, and he had used poison gas to put down troublesome minorities such as Muslims just as Sddam did with the Kurds, then you would have begged the Americans to attack India. Innocent Indians dying in such an attack would not have bothered you one bit and you would have used moral arguments to convince others of the justness of the American cause.

That is why you are a hypocrite and your attempt at righteousness is like the flickering tongue of a serpent.

Afrasiyab sahab,

``French toast was invented by an American named John French.``

LOL. French toast invent kaise hota hai? :o)

Respectfully,

Aamir

As a proud American I am deeply offended by the language used against my President and my country in this article. If you hate my country so much then why don’t you go back where you came from? Do you honestly believe that tomorrow will be a day any different from any other day in America? I don’t think so. Tomorrow when fire and brimstone will shower upon the Iraqi people, we will be on our commute to our place of work and to our schools just like any other day. Tomorrow when thermobaric bombs will suffocate the oxygen from the Iraqi bomb shelters and babies will die suckling their mother’s teats your children here will go to kindergartens just like any other day. Wouldn’t they? Tomorrow when those mothers will be gasping for air, wishing that they die but their children live, wouldn’t your women be busy figuring out lasagna or meatballs for the day. Wouldn’t they? And tomorrow when Iraqi’s will be skewered alive onto the uranium depleted missiles coming from heavens and earth and left and right and above and below, wouldn’t your V8s be purring on the turnpikes and parkways just like any other day. Wouldn’t they? And as the eyes in the skies will blink and guide the hell-fires and help them cruise to find those Iraqis who will run but are told that they had death wish therefore, they must die, wouldn’t at that time bulls will be stampeding through the wall street just like any other day. Wouldn’t they?

For us nothing will change. It will be just another day. And Isn’t that what our President promised us; that he would protect us Americans. Didn’t he? Tomorrow when America will go to war, not a single bullet will be fired on American soil and not a single American will die. Give the man credit, you ungrateful immigrants from third world.

The history has to move on. Great empires rise and fall. The Americans developed a very good system and had a whole century to them.

It just required one person like Bush to trigger the decay.

But I really feel for an average American whose whose own world was limited to his county; and FOX provided him the worldview.

As for the French, let me give an interesting statistic. The GNP of all 58 Muslim countries is $1200 Billion. The GNP of France alone is $1500 Billion.

People have to realise that morality and ethics are like the clothes you wear and the intentions are like the body you have. Everybody tries to cover the body with nice clothes, to look good. However if the body is lopsided the clothes can`t do much.

Bush as his oil men covet Iraqs oil, so no amount of dressing it with morality is going to make the greed look good.

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...this country is going to the $hitter, led by bush, cheney, and rumsfeld...sorry state of affairs...

I didn`t take it seriously when someone first told me about this ``freedom`` instead of ``french`` crap...it really is appauling that while in the middle of this huge world crisis, we are taking time out to eliminate the word french from our vocabulary. I am truly embarassed to be a texan right now. :)

sara

I was listening to NPR the other day and some comentator was saying that French Fries maybe understandable however French toast was invented by an American named John French. It is after his name that the bread is referred to as French bread.
I just could not stop laughing.

By the way, I understand that you are angry and frustrated, we all are, with all that is going on but please make an attempt to make it a little more coherent. This was hard to read, hard to follow and hard to understand in the end. Not the best way to get your point across.

The apology at the end is the best part of the article. It`s the way the time is now- it is so hard to put a finger to what we feel, and when we do the last thing we need is for it to be an unacceptable standard of language. Glad you wrote. Freedom Fries had to be the ultimate ridicule of everything great about America.

I read an article in this issue of the Economist, about Iraqis bracing for war: Looking at the ancient structures, passing by palaces and wondering why it has to go. I had to stop and think about Iraq- something I have been trying so hard not to do. I had hardly come to terms with the loss of about 3,000 and more innocent lives in Afghanistan, how could I even begin to justify this? Talk of war and terrorism is so dehumanizing that deaths by mistake are so dispensable. My concern is what if it doesn`t stop here? What if Afghanistan is shelved. What if Pakistan faces more terrorism?

All this is so far from American classrooms that only look at scales of ``most politically unstable nation`` and ``most corrupt nation`` scales and rejoice over statistical clichés. And Professors who should know better, glorify America’s power to liberate, and all the costs being worth it.

I`m just sick to my stomach.


Aisha Sarwari

The Bush administration is now hellbent on war, they know full well that a withdrawal after all that massive military build up will furhter strain their economy, whereas the war will be an economice bonanza, all that oil in Iraq at their disposal, certainly an opportunity not to be missed. To hell with the Iraqi people, to hell with the UN credibility, lets do it now. Bush is a maniac, or maybe a psychopath, and his poodle Blair aint any better, the duo is now going to start a war in a couple of days which will kill thousands of innocent people: the objective to liberate them from Saddam`s stranglehold. And Saddam`s refusal to step down will only provide another excuse to them. Lets say a prayer for the Iraqi people.