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2003-03-12 Iraq

Straw: UN resolution bid may be abandoned before war

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Posted by Bulldog 2003-03-12 04:30 pm|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So, the British press is implying that Blair will go without any paper whatsoever from the UN? If so, I am quite surprised based on what we've read in the American press.

Posted by JAB 2003-03-12 16:39:38|| 2003-03-12 16:39:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I DO like it - it actually puts the onus on the French for their overt expressions of a veto, while leaving others in the murky grey. We were always going to war, whether the Frogs wanted to or not..now the best thing that could happen is to expose the "contribuions" the french have made to sammy's war machine (bio, chem, nuke - they're all there)

Posted by Frank G 2003-03-12 17:21:54|| 2003-03-12 17:21:54|| Front Page Top

#3 JAB: "very fast moving situation" I think that should be translated from Strawspeak as "What we said a few hours ago about going for the second [sic] resolution: nah! Stuff the frogs, we're going unilaterally [sic]"

it looks like the French and Russians have actually done us a favour by guaranteeing vetoes, as it seems the moral majority is out of our grasp too. We can avoid a potential humiliation (4 to 11), and the blame the French for rendering the UNSC irrelevant (like Frank says)!

Posted by Bulldog 2003-03-12 17:31:26|| 2003-03-12 17:31:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah I'm starting to come around to not forcing a vote on the 18th resolution. Fuck it. Stop holding things up and just go.

Posted by g wiz 2003-03-12 21:10:26|| 2003-03-12 21:10:26|| Front Page Top

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