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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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