Chirac" If U.S. Attacks Iraq, We Are Out Of War On Terror"

Fox News | 03-10-03 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

Bastard just said it...if we attack Iraq they are out as a partner on the war on terror.

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL !

[Helen]

I haven't read the whole thread, so I don't know if this has been posted or not. In case, here it is (dated April 2000):

Paragraph 10: "...France sold a nuclear reactor to Iraq..."

http://www.gamla.org.il/english/article/2000/april/win2.htm

[MeekOneGOP]

Arabian Gulf: Sailor Kim Briones paints a presidential post-9/11 quote on the USS Constellation

Excellent ! . . .

[xm177e2]

France hasn't been our ally since WWI. They gave up during WWII, they refused to stand with America against the Soviets, and they've been arming Saddam Hussein even more than we have. That's inexcusable. We don't need to pretend that they're in our coalition.

[KineticKitty]

LOL, that was my first thought while still reading, "Where you ever in it?????"

[A_perfect_lady]

You'd think that Saddam had dirty pictures on Chirac....expect that the French wouldn't consider that a bad thing....

Maybe Saddam is threatening to release proof that Chirac has been monogamous all his life. He'd be thrown out of France!

[kcvl]

Chirac indicated the veto might not be needed because the resolution does not have sufficient support for passage.

"Tonight this resolution, which carries an ultimatum ... does not have a majority of nine votes," Chirac said.

Asked whether he believed that voting against the resolution would seriously damage relations with the United States, Chirac said "I am totally convinced of the opposite."

[American in Israel]

I kinda think being out of the war on terror is a decision that the Islamics make, not Chirak. As long as the Islamic troops are settling in their forward positions in France, there will be peace. The instant they think that they have enough in place, buses will start exploding. The Chirac can repeat that France is out of the war, when he is signing the surrender papers.

France will be out of the war simply because there will no longer BE a France.

[Ancesthntr]

Let's see, what should be our response:

1) All Americans should boycott ALL French products. If it says "Made in France" on it, put it back on the shelf. Better yet, bring it to the checkout and make a big deal there about it. Force the store to spend money on some clerk's salary to put it back on the shelf.

2) A list of all French products and companies that sell here should be circulated: Don't buy French perfume, cheese, wine, tires (Michelin), electronics, CDs, etc.

3) Above all, don't visit France, and cancel any existing trip that you have already scheduled.

4) President Bush should order increased security inspections for all flights leaving for France, and very tough inspections of all French cargoes entering the country. Take a page from the Japanese - enforce EVERY SINGLE REGULATION at the ports and airports.

That should be a good start. Next, someone in the administration should drop hints to press that we've told the Germans that any trouble between them and the French would be a "purely internal European affair." Such a thing should be strenuously denied, with a big smirk on the face of the denier.

[rustbucket]

I basically agree with you. I remember when the French bugged first class (and business class?) seats on Air France flights so that they could learn business secrets.

[cake_crumb]

"Stupidity? Frenchness?"

Yeah, those too.

Chirac's insistance that FINAL military action in Iraq will break up the war on terror is stupid at best...but coming as it does as I was finishing reading that 173 page report previously suppressed by Blixie, his reaction sounds like that of any dictator under threat of reprisal from a stronger opponent. Like the crazy, one-eyed Talibunny and later Saddam challenging GW to a duel.

The actions of the Axis of Weasles has proven HIGHLY educating, Jaques' and Gerhardt's TRUE colors are really coming through...and they're the same colors of any OTHER mad dictator wannabe. Darn, in my worst tinfoil hat moods, I KNEW it was this bad, kept on hoping I was wrong.

[Helen]

Post #322 - Looking further - apparently this nuclear reactor was destroyed in 1981.

[dead]

[geedee]

I've had about as much of this cacca as my roly-poly, hot-tempered little self can handle! I wish to hell 900,000 mad as hell Americans would lay siege to the g-damn French Embassy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chirac wants a piece of us . . . I say we give the anti-American, arrogant SOB as much of it as we can and see how he handles the pressure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kcvl]

ARAB NEWS...

Editorial: Moving to the Final Stage
11 March 2003



There comes a point when all the arguments against an attack on Iraq have been repeated so many times that there is nothing more to say. That point has been reached. We all know that a war to topple Saddam Hussein, even one with UN approval, is a Pandora’s Box. The US and UK open it at the Middle East’s peril.

Yet Washington and London are determined to open it, regardless of what happens to the new UN resolution the two have tabled, setting next Monday as a deadline for Iraq to disarm. Again this week, President Bush made it clear that he is determined to bring down the Iraqi regime, with or without UN approval. That is the other half of this Iraqi tragedy. For the first time in its history, the UN is playing the role intended for it at the outset — that of a court of international law. Never before has it been the scene of such intense diplomacy, with the foreign ministers from the 15 Security Council members arguing their case, three times now in a month. There is nothing wrong in that. Indeed there is everything right in it. This is international democracy in action.

At last, more than a decade after President Bush’s father predicted a new world order following the collapse of communism, it is happening. But at the very point that it is happening, Washington threatens to pull down the curtain. If it does, the world will be the loser; international democracy, which the US says it champions in Iraq, will be crushed.

But only the egotistical blind can sit back and smugly imagine that the world is divided into gung-ho warmongers and righteous peacemakers. The cold reality is that too many of the arbiters of world power are playing games to suit themselves. France craves adulation; Bulgaria craves dollars; and who knows what Pakistan or Mexico or Cameroon will settle for. The only member of the Security Council that seems to be acting purely out of principle is Germany. All say that whatever happens on Iraq, the US must not act unilaterally, and rightly so. But when it comes to North Korea — far more dangerous with its ability to produce enriched uranium — the message from China and Russia is that they do not want to be involved; it is up to the US to sort this one out. They are being as hypocritical as Washington.

Until the vote on the second Iraqi resolution actually happens, no one can predict the outcome. US Secretary of State Colin Powell may say that Washington will win, although that seems the least likely outcome given the determined opposition of France with its veto. We know that Germany and Syria will vote against, that the US, UK, Spain and Bulgaria will vote for. As for Russia’s statement yesterday that it would veto the resolution in its present state, it suggests that, if amended, it would support it or abstain; the question then hangs on what changes might be made. It is entirely possible too that any or all the others might abstain, including China.

But whatever the UN decides, it is fast becoming a sideshow. France and Germany cannot stop this war. It is now inevitable and could be with us even as early as this weekend. Bush’s determination to ride roughshod over the UN if it does not vote the way he wants, and the constant war-drum message that action may come sooner rather than later, could mean an attack within hours of the resolution being defeated.

A war we do not want, on our own doorstep and in just a few days confronts us. We have to face up to that awesome reality.


http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=23564

[RecentConvert]

The root of this whole mess is demographics.

France is not siding with us because of their demographics.

Russia are distancing themselves from us because of our demographics.

The United States of America is losing its friends throughout the world because of its demographics.

Any future US president will not have the support, trust and unanimous consent of its people because of its demographics.

Know the truth, and it will set you free.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Hahahahaha. We've lost the surrender monkeys. Whatever will we do now?

[kcvl]

China's media fear unilateral US action
By Goh Sui Noi

BEIJING - The Chinese media has stepped up criticism of what it sees as American unilateral action on the Iraq crisis in the face of international opinion that more time should be given to find a peaceful solution.

China has already said it sees no need for a new US-led resolution that sets Baghdad a March 17 deadline to disarm or face war.


http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,176259,00.html

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

What do you call an infected,puss filled bandage from a rump boil?A FRENCH GAS MASK!