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Iraq to dispatch emissaries to several European states
"Iraq is going to send emissaries to several European countries, including France and Germany, to explain the scale of American threats against the Iraqi people and the dangers they pose to world peace and security," Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan told the official Iraq News Agency (INA) Sunday. He added French and German opposition to US schemes to strike Iraq without seeking a new UN mandate "mean that European countries are aware of the dangers of the US policy of hegemony which targets the whole word without exception. The European position hostile to the arrogant and aggressive policy of the US administration against Iraq is growing noticeably," Ramadan added. We've noticed it, too, and not just with regard to Iraq. It means that the U.S. can't operate on an assumption of European support based on shared values, since Europe no longer seems to share some of our values. The fact that we consider the Euros wrong doesn't mean we consider them inimical to American interests in most cases; Iraq, on the other hand, we do consider inimical. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-09-02 |
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