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Russia and China Back Germany and France
BBC World Service ^ | Friday, 24 January, 2003, 04:26 GMT

Posted on 01/23/2003 8:40:59 PM PST by balls

Russia and China, two permanent members of the UN Security Council with veto power, have expressed their support of Germany and France, and opposition to millitary action against Iraq.

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Now it is the U.S. and Britain against the World. Backing down would be total humiliation.
1 posted on 01/23/2003 8:40:59 PM PST by balls
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To: balls
My God....Can we just get out of the U.N. ?
2 posted on 01/23/2003 8:44:32 PM PST by LuvUSA
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To: balls
Well I guess we just have to demonstrate how utterly useless (and actually how dangerous)the UN is.
3 posted on 01/23/2003 8:44:48 PM PST by sd-joe
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To: balls
F'em. Pull our troops out of Europe and put them on CONUS boarders. I mean France has invited Mugabe to go there and discuss justice. Give me a break.
4 posted on 01/23/2003 8:45:53 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: LuvUSA
was there a 15-0 vote at the last resolution.....What are they doing??? Just changing their minds??? I'm pissed and the Anti-American socialists are happy!!!

5 posted on 01/23/2003 8:46:48 PM PST by LuvUSA
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To: *war_list; *UN_List
bump
6 posted on 01/23/2003 8:47:01 PM PST by The Obstinate Insomniac (Oppose Constitutional Verbicide)
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To: LuvUSA
F@#% em....dont we still have NATO??
7 posted on 01/23/2003 8:47:51 PM PST by LuvUSA
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To: LuvUSA
Russia, France and Germany are in NATO. At this point, NATO is just UN-Lite.
8 posted on 01/23/2003 8:50:23 PM PST by nhoward14 (Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' while you look for a rock.)
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.....What are they doing???

There is a whole different agenda going on here. Other UN members have finally found a common cause and way to knock the US off its pedestal, or so they think.

9 posted on 01/23/2003 8:52:12 PM PST by balls
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To: balls
They are free to watch from the bleachers if they wish.
10 posted on 01/23/2003 8:52:12 PM PST by nhoward14 (Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' while you look for a rock.)
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To: LuvUSA
Without France and Germany there won't be full support from NATO.
11 posted on 01/23/2003 8:52:32 PM PST by The Obstinate Insomniac (Oppose Constitutional Verbicide)
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To: Texas_Jarhead
Yes!!!! I say pull ALL OF OUR MILITERY, $$$$, AND WHATEVER SUPPORT WE GIVE TO ANYONE back, shut down the borders (which will never happen because of the fear you'll be called RACIST), and build the biggest , baddest , missile defense system the world has and will ever see, and become the RICHEST (even more than we are now) COUNTRY EVER TO EXIST ON THIS PLANET!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12 posted on 01/23/2003 8:54:02 PM PST by LuvUSA
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That is yesterday's news. NATO is already in disarray on Iraq. France and Germany have already said they will not support NATO involvement in Iraq.
13 posted on 01/23/2003 8:55:47 PM PST by balls
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To: LuvUSA
NATO actions require a unanimous decision - clearly not forthcoming with France & Germany currently opposed.
14 posted on 01/23/2003 8:56:31 PM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: balls
Hey France...You're welcome for liberation in thge Summer of 1944.
Hey Germany...You're welocome for protection, and liberation from Communism from 1945-1989
15 posted on 01/23/2003 8:57:48 PM PST by LuvUSA
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I wonder if this whole deal has been simply GWB's way of getting the US out of the UN.

16 posted on 01/23/2003 8:59:37 PM PST by struwwelpeter
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Funny how the country we won independence from (England), and a country which only became a soverign state(Irsael)bout 30 yrs ago help us out........
17 posted on 01/23/2003 8:59:50 PM PST by LuvUSA
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To: balls
Backing down would be total humiliation.

Backing down would be an open invite to be "raped" again by psychopaths.
It's time to get it on. Blood will be shed, but we and our freinds across the pond need to bitch slap some freaks that are getting out of line. Freedom comes with a price. But with the current climate in the world, freedom is on the line.

18 posted on 01/23/2003 9:00:01 PM PST by Michael Barnes (Obligatory F[_]ck the U.N. tagline)
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To: balls
Read LuvUSA reply 7 and that was what I addressed.
19 posted on 01/23/2003 9:00:07 PM PST by The Obstinate Insomniac (Oppose Constitutional Verbicide)
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To: balls
That's it then, we'll move without the UN and demonstrate their irrelevance. This is the beginning of the end for these terrorist coddlers.
20 posted on 01/23/2003 9:01:08 PM PST by Brett66
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