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de Villepin
(Hat tip - LGF)The world is a more dangerous place because of the US-led war in Iraq, which may have toppled Saddam Hussein but also unleashed postwar violence and an upswing in terrorism, the French foreign minister said. And everything was peaches and cream, say, around 9:05 AM on 9/11/2001? "This is a belief that I have never stopped expressing," Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin told Le Monde newspaper in an interview in its Friday edition. "And never will tire of expressing!" "We have to look reality in the face Is that why the UN ran away like a nancy boy with one explosion at their Baghdad headquarters? Assertions by the administration of US President George W. Bush that ousting Saddam would make the world a safer place proved not to be true, de Villepin said. "Non, non, non! Zat is zoo simplisme!" "Terrorism didnât exist in Iraq before," de Villepin said. "Today, it is one of the worldâs principal sources of world terrorism." I doubt I could ever lie like that. No future in politix for me... De Villepin called again on the United States to respect a June 30 deadline for the Americans to hand over power to the Iraqis. The State Department dismissed the statement, saying the future is more important than the past. "The United States is looking forward, not backward," department spokesman Adam Ereli said. "Our focus is on helping Iraq to build a safer, more democratic, more prosperous country and working with the international community to that end." And if Ereli said terrorism existed before the war and Iraq had links to terrorists. "Unfortunately, the use of terror is a function of our modern world and to try to say that it was existent in one part and not existent in another part I think ignores the fluidity of the phenomenon," he said. Diplospeak for âSTFU, Dominique!" Posted by: Raj 2004-03-19 |
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