[mlo]

*IF* this is true, it is far beyond opposing a resolution for war. This is the overt act of an enemy opposing us in battle.

[Eva]

France has been going way beyond blocking our enforcement of the UN resolutions for twenty years. They have been arming Saddam and now buying time for him to prepare for war and making sure to give him every possible advantage. Chiraq is probably telling the Turks that he will help them deal with the Kurds when the war with Iraq is over, especially since the Kurd leader threatened to cut off the oil to France.

[Cachelot]

This is the overt act of an enemy opposing us in battle.

Add that France has been supplying not only spare parts, but Mirage planes to Iraq up to just last month. Add that Iraq has been procuring American uniforms to use in their war, and that there's some reason to believe that those uniforms came from Nato supplies in Germany. Add the German supplies of materials and resources for wmd production to Iraq - some of it, like the gas centrifuge documents and a whole working centrifuge plus instruction on building it, is very recent. It certainly seems that these nations are enemies of the US.

How tragic, then, that Bush pulls out a knife and sticks it squarely in the back of Israel with his inane blathering about a "roadmap to peace", presumably to appease the French, the Germans, the Saudis and anyone else who might have a Nazi pedigree. "Please stop obstructing us, and I'll give you the Jews". Anyone wonder why "coalition partners" are so few and far between?