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Iraq Crisis March 16th, 2003 Within the past weeks it has apparently been the aim of German foreign policy to isolate America in the United Nations Security Council. This is shown in a confidential wire report of the German UN ambassador, Pleuger. It concerned impeding the latest attempts for consensus with America and, therefore, to force Washington to go it alone against Iraq. The report has been made available to the “Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung”. At the same time, there are considerations in the Federal Government to use the issue of the reconstruction after a war as a means, in the...

What is it with France? It is one thing to oppose American policy on Iraq. Germany, China and many others have done so. France, however, has gone beyond mere opposition. France has been bent on organizing a worldwide coalition — a coalition of the unwilling — to stop the U.S., not just lining up other major powers like Russia but even sending its Foreign Minister on a tour of Africa to persuade three members of the U.N. Security Council to vote against the U.S. and ensure an American defeat. Why? The usual reasons apply — France's enormous Iraqi oil contracts...