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The animation below is born out of my repulsion for the teeming of cockroaches protesting for a peace in infamy on 02/15/2003.

Over the past two days, many fine bloggers, webmasters and individuals have been mailing me to get this banner, with the necessary HTML code to display it, to know how to get it so they can send it by mail... Or just to congratulate me, which - needless to say - I sincerely appreciate.

Mails keeps coming today (well, last night... time shift you know) and I'm still trying to catch up and answer everybody. But please, keep them coming!

I'm providing, whenever possible, personalized guidance to add the banner to your site correctly and with as little pain as possible.

It's been a great experience so far, since it resulted in new exchange, meeting fine people - including some much unexpected ones - and discovering great sites I didn't knew about.

I'm still willing to help unconditionally and freely people who need it but in order to facilitate the distribution of this animation, I've decided to offer it as simple downloadable .zip package.
It will spare my laborious explanations on the <object> tags </object> to the web gurus among you and it will facilitate the life of many people who just want to pass it around by email.

I just hope it won't deprive me of your wonderful responses though.

So here we go:

This is the .zip archive containing the movie and instructions for the people who want to put it on their website. You can also pass around the movie alone; it will play on any computer that has the latest Flash movie player installed - just double-click it.

(Please notice that it needs the latest build of Flash Player version 6.0. If you don't launch it from within a web browser and if your Flash player is too old, it can't prompt you to get the latest one. It won't crash or anything, it just won't play at all. The player is available for free at www.macromedia.com - Windows Internet Explorer versions here, alternate browsers and operating systems here)

This one contains a self playing movie. It's an executable that will play even without the Flash player, on any Windows based PC.

There's also a self playing movie for the Macintosh (wrapped into an .hqx archive), thank to some brave testers among you. Get it here.

Finally, we have a German and Italian version.

Of course, if you've never dealt with flash banners before and need guidance, please drop me a mail. I'll send you the animation and the necessary bit of HTML to display it, and I'll be more than pleased to help you put that to work. It easy, you'll see.

Please keep in mind that whenever possible, you should host it on your own server. ♠If you only want to link to the banner, it will stay for a while on my home page I guess, but you can also link to any of these three web pages: here, here and here. ♠Please tell me the address of your site when you're using the banner, for my own satisfaction and so I can link back to you.

I wish to sincerely thank all the people who've been in touch with me since I put this banner online (including the dummy French neo-revisionist who pitifully tried to clear Saddam's responsibility for his crimes against the Iraqis. I think this pathetic fellow citizen of mine now has a clear understanding of what the dissident frogman means when he says "fuck you".) either for spreading it or for expressing their support and encouragement.

You Guys and Gals, Ladies and Gentlemen are great! ♠Once again, if you need help, if you liked the banner or the site so much that you feel like telling me (by the way... I just love feedback you know) or if you just want to say hello, please drop me a mail.

Don't worry, even though I'm French, I don't bite at the first date.

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L'animation ci-dessous est née de mon dégoût devant le grouillement de blattes protestant pour une paix dans l'infamie le 15/02/03.

J'ai reçu ces deux derniers jours de très nombreux mails en provenance d'excellents bloggers, webmasters et particuliers me demandant cette animation et le code HTML nécessaire pour l'afficher, comment la récupérer pour la diffuser par email... Ou simplement pour me féliciter, ce que - n'en doutez pas - j'apprécie sincèrement.

Les mails continuent d'arriver aujourd'hui (principalement cette nuit d'ailleurs... décalage horaire oblige) et je suis toujours a pied d'oeuvre pour rattraper le retard et répondre à tout le monde. Continuez d'envoyer, quoi qu'il en soit !

Je fourni, des lors que c'est possible, des indications personnalisées pour ajouter correctement cette bannière sur votre site, avec le minimum d'ennui possible.

Ca à été une super expérience jusqu'à maintenant car cela à débouché sur de nouveaux échanges, des rencontres géniales - y compris les plus inattendues - et la découverte de nouveaux sites dont j'ignorais l'existence.

Je suis toujours partant pour donner un coup de main gracieusement et inconditionnellement à tous ceux qui en auraient besoin mais afin de faciliter la distribution de cette animation, j'ai décidé de l'offrir en téléchargement sous la forme d'une archive .zip.
Cela évitera aux pros du web de se taper mes laborieuses explications sur les <object> tags </object> et cela facilitera la vie de ceux qui veulent simplement la diffuser par email.

Cela dit, j'espere que cela ne me privera pas de vos excellents commentaires.

C'est parti :

Ceci est l'archive .zip contenant le clip et les instructions, pour ceux qui souhaitent l'installer sur leur site web. Vous pouvez également le diffuser par email et le faire tourner sur n'importe quel ordinateur équipé du lecteur Flash - un double click suffit.

(Notez cependant qu'il nécessite la dernière version du Flash Player 6.0. Si vous le faites tourner hors de votre navigateur web, et que votre lecteur Flash est trop ancien, vous ne serez pas averti. Rien de grave ne va se produire - pas de crash - simplement, l'animation ne va pas fonctionner. Le lecteur Flash est disponible gratuitement sur www.macromedia.com - versions Windows Internet Explorer ici, autres browsers et systèmes d'exploitation ici)

Cette archive contient le clip Flash autonome. C'est un exécutable qui vous permet de voir le clip sur n'importe quel PC tournant sous Windows, même si le lecteur Flash n'est pas installé

Il y a également un clip autonome pour le Macintosh (contenu dans une archive .hqx), grâce à quelques braves testeurs parmi vous. Prenez le .

Enfin nous avons une version allemande et italienne.

Bien entendu, si vous n'avez aucune expérience avec les clips Flash et souhaitez mon aide n'hésitez pas à me joindre. Je vous ferai parvenir l'animation et le code et je serai ravi de vous aider à mettre tout ça en oeuvre. C'est facile, vous verrez. ♠Lorsque c'est possible, merci de l'héberger sur votre propre serveur.

Si vous voulez simplement lier vers ce clip, il va rester en place en haut de ma home page pour quelque temps, mais vous pouvez également pointer sur une de ces trois pages : ici, ici et ici. ♠
Merci de m'indiquer l'adresse de votre site, pour ma satisfaction personnelle et pour que je puisse lier vers vous en retour.

Je souhaite remercier sincèrement toutes les personnes qui sont entrées en contact avec moi depuis que j'ai mis cette bannière en ligne (y compris le crétin de neo-révisionniste français qui a pitoyablement tenté de nier la responsabilité de Saddam et d'absoudre ses crimes contre les Irakiens. Je pense que ce pathétique compatriote a maintenant une idée claire de ce que le dissident frogman entend pas "je t'encule") tant pour diffuser ce clip que pour m'avoir exprimé leur support et leurs encouragements.

Mes chers Garces et Garçons, Dames et Messieurs, vous êtes grandioses ! ♠Encore une fois, si vous avez besoin d'aide, si vous avez apprécié le clip ou le site au point que vous ne puissiez pas vous empêcher de me le dire ou si vous souhaitez juste dire bonjour, passez moi un mail.

Pas de panique. Bien que Français, je ne mords pas au premier rendez-vous.

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1912 - Jim

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So was this a war for human rights? First Bush claimed the war was necessary because Iraq had helped AlQuaida. Unfortunately in spite of the Bush administration's best efforts to dig up the slightest shred of evidence...there wasn't any! Then it was meant to be necessary because the USA had concrete proof Iraq had WMD, such as the obviously forged documents that Iraq tried to get raw materials for nuclear weapons from Niger. Iraq was meant to be an imminent danger to the USA and was illegally keeping WMD. This has also proved to be a lie - and anyway, the US and its allies in the region (eg. Israel) are 'allowed' to have all the WMDs they want. Now this war has been reinvented as one for human rights. Another lie. The CIA helped Saddam into power, helped him massacre communists and muslims, encouraged him to invade Iran, sold him weapons and precursors for chemical weapons, provided him with intelligence and illegal funding, and helped Iraq avoid censure for its wartime atrocities at the UN. Saddam stopped being useful when he invaded Kuwait for continuing to steal Iraqi oil, so the USA stopped being his buddy. The illegal invasion of Iraq wasn't for human rights but because having a compliant Iraq helps the USA's strategic interests in the Middle East, helps control of a region with vast oil reserves, makes money for Republican donors like Bechtel and Halliburton, knocks out an enemy of Israel, and scares other less compliant states to behave in line with US interests. Now it's set a precedent that any state which feels a perceived threat from another can launch an invasion without consequences. The war was nothing to do with human rights and everything to do with money and power....period.

1913 - the dissident frogman

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#11 This is getting tiresome, really. I suggest you tell all of that to the Irakis (from a distance tough. They may not agree with you). Else, you can keep talking to my horse, sweetheart.

1914 - Jim

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Good comeback, shame you didn't actually address any of the facts I put forward. So how did the USA react to Saddam's use of gas munitions against the Kurds at the time? Here is one of many articles on the web about that. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,784125,00.html That was back in the days when Saddam (and Bin Laden) was still seen as a friend by the US republican government. I guess the Reaganites back then didn't know it was wrong to use poison gas when civilians would be collateral damage. Just like the current administration doesn''t realise that using cluster bombs and depleted uranium shells in cities is a bit naughty. 'We don't collect information about civilian collateral damage'.

1915 - the dissident frogman

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Hmmmmm, bugger if I know my man. What's the Irakis' answer? Did you ask them? (Oh, by the way, an article from TheGrauniad? Ah, that's a good one, you funny boy you. In the very words of my horse: Heeeeeeeee Heee Heeee Heee.)

1916 - mrend

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As someone who's lived under the tyranny of a dictator, I find it so utterly offensive how some of you people who have lived under the protection of First-world governments can be so naive and idiotic. You act as if there are no evil men in the world, that Bush and Blaire and the rest of the Free World start a major war just for the hell of it. You hate your government so much that you paint a sadistic maniac like Hussein as a martyr. The United States, being the last remaining superpower in the world, can't just do what Europe does and stick their heads in the sand whenever a humanitarian crisis happens. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

1917 - RA2002

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Yes, the Americans were allied with bin Laden and Hussein at one time. So, the proper way to make up for that is to allow them to stay in power? Okey-dokey, then! By the way, a lie is not merely an incorrect statement, but rather it is an incorrect statement that the speaker knows to be incorrect and states anyhow for the purpose of deceiving. If anyone has any evidence that Bush knew there were no WMD's, they aren't publishing it. We know that the rest of the world thought there were WMDs in Iraq, otherwise what were their reasons for continuing the UN inspections? The correct reasons for opposing the war in Iraq are that Saddam posed no credible threat to the US, and that the policy of preemption, while understandable as a theory, sets a dangerous precedent. Although Saddam liked to play a little too close to the edge, he never did anything that (he thought) would get himself in trouble. He had America's support against Iran, and asked for Bush I's opinion before invading Kuwait. In the current situation, he was an asshole, but he in fact appears not to have any of the offending WMDs. As for the preemptive policy, yes, it would be better to preempt a strike rather than suffering a blow and then striking back, but you should do so only on the basis of very, very sound intelligence. Of which there obviously was none in this case. One more question to the anti-Bu... I mean, anti-war zealots: if the Americans had found WMDs, would the invasion have been justified? If not, then the whole WMD issue is irrelevant, isn't it? Idiots. Bush isn't a liar, just a bad strategist.

1918 - juh

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-" and anyway, the US and its allies in the region (eg. Israel) are 'allowed' to have all the WMDs they want. " This statement from "Jim" combined with his "client state" lingo makes me want to go back to M.I.T. and take more notes from Prof. Chomsky, that wonderfully post-modern man who is going to bring equality to us all, no matter the differences between a liberal democracy and those gassers in Chad, it's all good. Go client state yourself to France you douche.

1919 - Dominique de Villainpain

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As a woman in my early fifties i object strongly to all this talk of WMDs ! I have been suffering from this menopausal depression for some time . I personally am extremely happy that Iraqi women appear to be totally devoid of this crippling illness since it can only be cured with healthy doses of Irish whisky - of course not available in that desperate country. Yours faithfully Dominique Vidal Institut des Petomaniacques de France

1920 - SGT/USMC

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#11 "...and anyway, the US and its allies in the region (eg. Israel) are 'allowed' to have all the WMDs they want." You're goddamned right we can. Because we excersize a little thing called "restraint." A concept that people like Saddam Hussein (may he be executed in the most painful means possible and burn in the darkest hole of Hell) would laugh at while having you tortured in front of your family for even suggesting. Let's think a little here...how long have we had these WMD's and had the restraint to not use them? Can you give me one instance where the US has nuked, gassed, or otherwise tried to obliterate an entire people? Even after September 11th? What do you think the bin Ladens and Husseins (remember the Kurds?) of the world would have done? I can tell you...and it wouldn't take a 9/11-esque massacre to provoke such an attack either. The only thing that would have to happen is a non-Islamic government (let's assume it was, oh I don't know...the Israelis) to "condemn" something that happened in a country run by this type of person, and that country, and it's people would cease to exist. Christ man, the Israelis, whom you apparently have no love for either, even have more restraint than these modern-day barbarians, though, admittedly less than the US. But can you blame them? They suffer attacks every fucking day that they have to live with. You sit on your ass in front of the T.V. at night ignoring those atrocities and telling yourself "they had it coming" and when they retaliate, again, with more restraint than the PLO, you say it is an unfounded attack on the poor defenseless Palestinians. You wonder why these innocent civilians are getting killed? Because they are the ones harboring and hiding the terrorists. And allowing the terrorists to hide behind them...not necessarily because they want to, but because they will be killed if they don't. People like you almost make me ashamed to tell people I run into that I am an American. Almost. But I will still die to defend your right to hide behind the Constitution and the Stars and Stripes that I swore an oath to. Because don't have the intestinal fortitude to do so yourself.

1921 - Jim

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(original drivel edited) Where the hell do you think you are? Ever heard about respect for private property? DF. (end edit)

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