US and France get cheesy...
President Bush is gone, but before he left office he took a few last minute measures that went a bit under the radar.
One of those such measures was to award his friends, the Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd, and the former prime minister of the UK, Tony Blair with a formal ceremony where he thanks them for their support in the “war against terror”. Nothing wrong there, many departing Presidents choose to award friends and prominent figures just before they leave office.
On the other side of the scale was France. France was never an open supporter of Bush’s policy and intervention in Iraq, and Bush’s disliking for France’s lack of support was evident throughout his tenure as president. American’s started naming french fries “freedom” fries, and other such silly measures. The French couldn’t care less…
But just before he left office, Bush signed legislation that would increase the taxes imposed on French cheese by 300 percent ! That’s right three hundred percent!. The cheese in question is Roquefort. Taxes on Roquefort cheese were already at 100%, but this measure will make it virtually impossible to find Roquefort in the US.
Isn’t this just the typical Bushism? A petty, small-minded measure to “hurt” those who didn’t support you? In fact I can already see Bush saying to himself “Let those cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys keep their cheese to themselves”…
Oh Bush, your silly antics will be missed.