French envoys leave Iraq

The Associated Press ^ | March 18, 2003

[Indy Pendance]

A SMALL contingent of French diplomats have been ordered out of Iraq, French diplomatic sources said.

Less than 10 diplomats who are posted to France's interest section in Baghdad at the Romanian Embassy will leave Iraq in the next 24 hours, the sources said.

The announcement comes just hours after French President Jacques Chirac denounced US President George W Bush's decision to launch a war if Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein did not leave his country within 48 hours.

France, backed by Germany and Russia, has led the effort to resolve the Iraq crisis by diplomatic means. France has maintained that efforts to solve the Iraq crisis peacefully must be exhausted before considering any recourse to force.

France wanted to give UN weapons inspectors in Iraq more time and more means to uncover arms of mass destruction.

[xJones]

Don't tell me that the author of this piece isn't a Frenchman with his nose seriously out of joint.

[Sacajaweau]

Last to leave?? Had to burn all those papers!!!

[Semper Paratus]

The French, invincible in parades, invisible in war.

[Happy2BMe]

This is a sad day. Why? Saddam must be heart broken.

A Union Made In HELL!

How history will tell the story:

A. The U.N. sent inspectors into Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction - the same WMD Saddamn said he did not have. Forming new alliances, France, Germany, and Belgium, continually sought prolonged inspection times in their attempts to restrain the U.S. and Britian from attacking Saddam. The U.N. Council repeatedly ruled in thir favor.

B. Saddamn, while insisting (and convincing France, Germany, and Belgium) he had no WMD, at the same time threatened the U.S. and Britian to destroy them (WITH THE SAME WMD HE CLAIMED NOT TO HAVE) if they attacked Iraq.

C. The United States and Britian agreed that Saddamn had not complied with U.N. resolution 1441, had WMD, then attacked and removed Saddamn from power to prevent him (or other terrorists) from using them.

D. After the U.S. and Britian attacked Iraq, vast stores of WMD, chemical, biological, and yes - even some nuclear - were uncovered by the prevailing U.S. and British forces.

E. Saddamn and his two sons were tried before a U.N. tribunal and unaimously found to be enemies of minkind perptetuating mass murders on their own people of magnitudes and ferociouceness not seen since Adolph Hitler's actions created the word "genocide." They were summarily hung for their crimes against humanity. Regrettably the knots where incorrectly tied and the distance of the drop was not sufficient to break their necks. They swung and kicked for almost thirty minutes before strangling to their infamous historical deaths.

F. The Democrats in the United States had their worst election returns in the 2004 elections in that party's history.

G. George W. Bush was elected president for a second term in 2004 by the largest landslide in U.S. history.

H. Ditto for Tony Blair.

I. Hillary Clinton was defeated for his (grin) bid for reelection in New York State.

J. Thanks to the "footdragging" tactics of France and Germany througout the entire world crisis, the United Nations was made to be a laughing stock of historical proportions and was deemed irrelevent and impotent and consequently vaporized into nothingness as did it's predecessor - The League of Nations.

[limitedgov]

I thought all non-essential personnel had already left.

[1Old Pro]

"The United Nations Security Council ( FRANCE, GERMANY, MEXICO, RUSSIA ) has not lived up to its responsibilities, so we will rise to ours."

[chuknospam]

I suspect that as war approaches & people leave, Iraq will be uncovering all the WMD's for us, should be able to detect some of this activity via spy planes & satellite. God speed to our troops.

[reformedliberal]

Does anyone know if having TEN diplomats assigned to an INTEREST SECTION of another country's embassy is a large contingent? Further, can anyone explain why France does not have a separate embassy of their own in Iraq?

[Concerned]

THE ARTICLE STATED: "France has maintained that efforts to solve the Iraq crisis peacefully must be exhausted before considering any recourse to force."

Well, by all means...let's LEAVE the French THERE! They can keep working on a diplomatic solution with Saddam while AMERICANS and BRITISH actually SOLVE "the Problem" by force.

[VOA]

French envoys leave Iraq

Au revoir, Saddam!
We might sell you tons of stuff at high rates...but WE ARE OUTTA' HERE, DUDE!

As General Pershing said: "Trust the French"...
(I don't know if Pershing was being sarcastic...but the quote comes off well these days...)

[xJones]

Last to leave?? Had to burn all those papers!!!

Repeat after Chiraq, "We never had any oil deals with Iraq, non, and nothing else either.

limitedgov: I thought all non-essential personnel had already left.

It may take a long time for the French to realize that they are non-essential.

[finnman69]

So the French don't have an embassy?