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2004-09-17 Europe
France backs Annan on 'illegal' Iraq war
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Posted by Steve White 2004-09-17 12:38:21 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Get us out of the UN and the UN out of the US!!!
Posted by mmurray821 2004-09-17 12:46:08 PM||   2004-09-17 12:46:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah, the old "international law" meme. So, where was that codified, again, froggy?
Posted by mojo  2004-09-17 1:03:50 PM||   2004-09-17 1:03:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder; does this logic also extend to Kosovo? Or is that a "good war" with no UN mandate?
Posted by Baltic Blog 2004-09-17 1:31:34 PM|| [http://balticblog.blogspot.com]  2004-09-17 1:31:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The day the headline is "France: Kofi Full of Shit", let me know. That will be news.
Posted by tu3031 2004-09-17 1:36:58 PM||   2004-09-17 1:36:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 This the day before Fox News reports Claudia Rossett's piece about the UN Oil-for-Food Scandle coverup!!!! HEEEEEE HEEEEEEE
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-09-17 1:40:03 PM||   2004-09-17 1:40:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The biggest violators of international law hide behind it. Baltic Blog has it right, what about Kosovo? Clinton got a pass, he is not accused of being a war criminal. So it is not as much behavior, but rather who you are that determines whether you get a pass or not.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-17 1:45:49 PM||   2004-09-17 1:45:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Just wait until Kofi finds out that the suitcase full of French Francs they bribed him with is worthless.
Posted by Anonymoose 2004-09-17 1:51:39 PM||   2004-09-17 1:51:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Yet another display of French "leadership": they wait for someone else to act, then they follow like sheep.
Posted by Brutus 2004-09-17 2:03:34 PM||   2004-09-17 2:03:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 France's new answer for solving the problems of the world--finding the least common demoninator, so that all the cooks in the kitchen can agree to cook up a lousy soup.

AP-you have it right, too-it's all about who you know. France is still a status-driven nation.
Posted by jules 187 2004-09-17 2:06:58 PM||   2004-09-17 2:06:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Bah! You beat me to it, Steve. I just posted this same ridicule laden article. What outright twaddle! It's obvious that Annan had to put yet another pleading phone call from Darfur on permanent hold in order to be quoted for this piece of sh!t puffery.
Posted by Zenster 2004-09-17 2:38:00 PM||   2004-09-17 2:38:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Smoke and mirrors-- that'll keep em distracted. Especially with the Volcker Report due out any day now.
Posted by Kofi 2004-09-17 2:53:07 PM||   2004-09-17 2:53:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 France on Friday backed UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's description of the US-led war on Iraq as "illegal", with Foreign Minister Michel Barnier saying that long-held stance was why his country had opposed joining the conflict.

A pile of steamy, hot, male bovine feces.

If anything, this proves that Chirac and his stooges have really, REALLY hard heads.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-17 4:22:28 PM||   2004-09-17 4:22:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 am i the only one who doesn't give a flying shit what France or the UN think?
Posted by smokeysinse 2004-09-17 4:31:18 PM||   2004-09-17 4:31:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Smokey...uh no.
Posted by remote man 2004-09-17 4:56:06 PM||   2004-09-17 4:56:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Another vote for NO, smokey!
Posted by debbie 2004-09-17 5:09:20 PM||   2004-09-17 5:09:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 I think they're trying to influence the election. Problem is, I don't think this is going to help Kerry. Maybe I'm wrong, but having the UN poke its nose into our business probably rubs a lot of Americans, both Kerry and Bush supporters, the wrong way.
Posted by Zhang Fei  2004-09-17 6:05:59 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2004-09-17 6:05:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Excuse my shouting, ladies and gents, but I'm really getting sick of this "international law" crap.

Message to Anus, ChIraq, et al.: We run our country based on OUR CONSTITUTION, not your sorry excuse to hobble us that you call "international law."

But in the interest of cooperation, we'll be glad to pull our troops and planes and equipment out of Kosovo (not to mention Germany and Spain) and let you all handle it with your wonderful wisdom, understanding, and nuance.

In the spirit of "international cooperation," FUCK YOU AND THE CAMELS YOU RODE IN ON!

Morons.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-09-17 6:14:29 PM||   2004-09-17 6:14:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 We will never subjugate our constitution to another power, and that includes a world body like the UN. Our constitution has been emulated in the constitutions of many countries, so Kofi and Froggy-Boy, don't tell us how to run our country.

In the spirit of "international cooperation," FUCK YOU AND THE CAMELS YOU RODE IN ON! Morons.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-17 6:14:29 PM

Tell us how you REALLY feel, Barbara. These ass-hats get your boiler pressure up, too?
Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-17 6:34:07 PM||   2004-09-17 6:34:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Once again the Chiraq government demonstrates that French perfidy knows no bounds.
Posted by Scott R  2004-09-17 6:36:22 PM|| [http://five24.net]  2004-09-17 6:36:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 My problem with this guy:

You well know that what explains our country's disagreement with the way the war was carried out

He's aping Kerry; how pathetic is that?
Posted by Raj 2004-09-17 7:02:25 PM||   2004-09-17 7:02:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 The most fundamental difference between the US and the UN/France/other-loony-countries is that the American Republic is rooted in the recognition that individual rights are the rule of acceptable government, while other countries consider to varying degrees that people are subjects of the All-Powerful State, to be sacrificed as the Leader feels like it (whether the leader is Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Annan, Assad, Pétain, Mussolini, Bin Laden, etc.).

As long as the concept of individual rights does not rule and limit governments in most of the world, the USA will be hated and accused by the lovers of statism, collectivism, and tribalism.
Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-09-17 7:13:02 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/]  2004-09-17 7:13:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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