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| French Foreign Minister Alarmed Over Iraq | |
| 2004-05-13 | |
Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, in an interview published Thursday, compared Iraq to a "black hole that is sucking up" the world and said France would at no time send in troops. Barnier, who travels to the United Nations Friday for talks on Iraq, expressed alarm about "the spiral of horror" that is gaining ground and the loss of human dignity as violence progresses. In an interview with the daily Le Monde, he made a "call to reason and conscience." He also stressed that Iraqis must be given authentic sovereignty after the transition of power June 30 from American to Iraqi hands. "We must get out of this black hole that is sucking up the Middle East and, beyond that, the world," Barnier was quoted as saying. "What shocks me is the spiral of horror, the blood, the inhumanity that we see now on all fronts, in Fallujah like in Gaza or through the terrible images of the assassination of this unfortunate American hostage... What is in question on all sides is this fundamental value at the heart of all religions, all civilizations: human dignity." Barnier said that it is "out of the question" that France send troops to Iraq. "There will be no French soldiers in Iraq, not now and not later."
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Merde ! The frogs must have raised their threat level from collaborate to surrender. |
| Posted by: The Dude 2004-05-13 8:54:19 PM |
| #6 "There will be no French soldiers in Iraq, not now and not later." Any of you guys wanna tell JFK? |
| Posted by: Wuzzalib 2004-05-13 8:46:27 PM |
| #5 ima riding my cycle of violence into the spiral of horror and make everybody pay to see i a far west gun totting boot wearing devil may care kinda guy |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-05-13 8:00:15 PM |
| #4 I misunderstood - I thought he said "the spiral of honor" and figured that was why he couldn't send French troops. Either way, no thanks, France |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-13 7:34:20 PM |
| #3 We must get out of this black hole that is sucking up the Middle East What you mean 'we', frenchie??? Go along and play with the other Euros while the grownups deal with the threat to western civilization, that's a good boy. |
| Posted by: unimpressed 2004-05-13 7:33:20 PM |
| #2 speaking of holes...... |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2004-05-13 7:27:23 PM |
| #1 "the spiral of horror" Mr Foreign Minister. The only greater "Spiral of horror" is the complicity of your government with Saddahm before he was "put" in a hole in the ground! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-13 2:14:24 PM |