[lambo]

I surrender!!

[Rain-maker]

[kayak]

bttt

[exit82]

Looks like the Jacques-strap has read the handwriting on the wall. His buddy Gerhard lost power this week in the German elections and is on the way out. Putin was a fair weather friend. The Germans and Russians are into supporting the US in Iraq.

The French have once again shown that they are unwilling to stand alone on the strength of their convictions.

[Bob J]

Everything could change," he said. "I don't have a crystal ball.

Chirac, you don't have any balls.

[RJL]

France will not veto a US-backed Security Council resolution on the future of Iraq, President Jacques Chirac has said.

This may be Chiraq's position today. Tomorrow if he can screw America with a veto, he will use his veto.

Count on it.

[Johnbalaya]

Chirac's in a bind. He wants that oil money NOW. Saddam must have owed France a lot of money. I wonder how much?

[OldFriend]

Don't trust the French for a moment. They will be working behind the scenes to get others to veto any help for Iraq.

[Semi Civil Servant]

Perhaps in light of the apparently successful boycott of French products by Americans sick of France, French greed is overcoming French cowardice.

But don't bother on my account, Ch'Iraq. My boycott of French products is now a small, but satisfying, part of my life.

[kinghorse]

these one liners are killing me. Jock-strap. c'mon. too good.

[VRWC_minion]

Unilaterlist Bush does it again, without groveling like his haters wanted him to.

[Sparta]

I wonder what deal was struck, if this story is true.

[.cnI redruM]

Powell, like the general that he is, has breached the diplomatic Maginot Line. We can soon expect a regular SitzKrieg of a debate in the UN and then we get the UN to formalize the fete accompli.