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2003-03-23 Iraq

France Said to Still Be Working on Saddam Exile Deal

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Posted by ISHMAIL 2003-03-23 08:07 am|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The link to the news posted immediately above is following :

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/Primetime/saddamexile_030321.html

Posted by ISHMAIL 2003-03-23 05:02:51|| 2003-03-23 05:02:51|| Front Page Top

#2 And wouldn't France *love* to be seen as the power that brought sense to the situation?

Posted by jrosevear 2003-03-23 06:01:59|| 2003-03-23 06:01:59|| Front Page Top

#3 If this is true then I guess all the stories of Saddam's demise are wrong wrong wrong

Posted by g wiz 2003-03-23 08:34:25|| 2003-03-23 08:34:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Here's the big question....If Sadaam is "exiled" rather than "deposed", does that create some sort of technicality that Sadaam (or the UN) can name the successors to his regime?

Considering that France, Russia, etc. have made clear they are going to hang their hats on the "illegal war" word game (discussed yesterday), once the war is over the "so-called" question of who will establish the the new Iraqi govn't , will - according to the French - certainly not belong to illegal US occupation army. France will say, the UN gets to do it, of course, to assure UN protection of their prior contracts and backroom deals .

Other rantburg article today makes it appear that US is going to block this move. If they allow the war to be "won" by the Iraqi opposition, and there is no US [illegal] Military Intervention phase, the Iraqi people, through the Interim Authority, will get to make those decisions for themselves, NOT the UN. BWAHAAAAAHAAAHAA! Trumped again Igor!

Posted by becky 2003-03-23 09:31:45|| 2003-03-23 09:31:45|| Front Page Top

#5 oopa..I said, "and there is no US [illegal] Military Intervention phase" what I meant was US Military Interim Govn't phase ...(or whatever it's supposed to be called). sigh.

Posted by becky 2003-03-23 09:57:25|| 2003-03-23 09:57:25|| Front Page Top

#6 I just posted the article on "Debating how to put Iraq back together again" that sheds more light on this topic.

Posted by becky 2003-03-23 11:20:43|| 2003-03-23 11:20:43|| Front Page Top

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