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2003-04-14 International

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Posted by Tadderly 2003-04-14 01:21 pm|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 France wants us to back off on Syria - Ok let talk. How about we get something in return - like a UNSC resolution authorizing our position in Iraq (without conceding political control to UN) plus foregiveness of Iraqi debts???

Its good to be magnanimous after victory, but we still have alot to talk about with the French. Each day that reveals French/Russian illegal weapons sales to Iraq, more evidence of WMD,improvement of the situation on the ground in Iraq,etc makes the axis of weasels position weaker. So lets talk, but not be too quick to cut a deal with people whose negotiating position is crumbling.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-04-14 13:42:27|| 2003-04-14 13:42:27|| Front Page Top

#2 de Villepin: le bag du breeze....Call the Kyoto Global Warming cops on him. They signed the treaty.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-04-14 14:15:56|| 2003-04-14 14:15:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Villepin needs a dose of Foghorn Leghorn:
Go away, ah says go away son, ya bother me.

Posted by Jim 2003-04-14 14:21:45|| 2003-04-14 14:21:45|| Front Page Top

#4 In fake news today:

Visiting French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said Sunday that the international community should concentrate on rebuilding Iraq rather than âopening new battle fronts.â Speaking to reporters at Beirut International Airport after meeting with Lebanese leaders, de Villepin said the time was appropriate for Washington to apply pressure on Syria to take advantage of once-in-a-lifetime deals on undelivered orders of UN-disallowed munitions and other military equipment. Said de Villepin, "Well, we suspect that the United States would be more inclined to realize the good the UN can do as a body once our American allies get a taste of the sweet life that can also be had by pimping illegal weapons to terrorist states. I grant that it's no picnic to wake up every morning and realize that one has spent the night in a drunken haze with Germany, but that and supporting genocidal maniancs is a small price to pay for making enough money to buy all the brie one could ever want."

de Villepin then vowed to make this year's Tour de France so difficult that Lance Armstrong could not possibly win. "We're just sick and tired of everybody being better at everything than we are."

Posted by FormerLiberal 2003-04-14 14:44:09|| 2003-04-14 14:44:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Frogger couldn't be any more wrong about the timing of US pressure on Syria. We have 300k motivated, battle-tested troops next door. We know a bunch of leading Iratqis are scurrying their way. It's likely that Syria is babysitting Iraqi WMD and scientists. Plus we get Hezbollah off Israel's back in the bargain (and further put the screws to Iran). It's win, win, win, win to me.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-14 15:19:46|| 2003-04-14 15:19:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Foreign minister says time not right to apply pressure on Syria

For the French, NO time is ever right.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-14 16:05:06|| 2003-04-14 16:05:06|| Front Page Top

#7 According to Devil Pin and his boss ChIraq, there is no "right time" for Uncle Sam to be anythying but a patsy for the UN, EU, and AW.

Posted by KP 2003-04-14 17:14:21|| 2003-04-14 17:14:21|| Front Page Top

#8 From Best Of The Web today:
Meanwhile, France's Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin was in Damascus over the weekend, meeting with the Syrian FM, Farouk al-Sharaa. CNN reports on a hilarious exchange between the two:

Talking about the Bush administration's military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, Sharaa questioned the United States' motive.

"Look at all these things: Is Afghanistan stable? Have their objectives been achieved? Have they found Osama bin Laden?" he asked, before mentioning the "looting and lawlessness" that followed the fall of Saddam's regime.

"They've left a mess in both these countries and they're not finished. Now turning their attention to a third country," he said. "Historians talk about the Second World War and how the Germans should have been stopped earlier."

Then, just before Sharaa was about to compare the Bush administration to Nazi Germany, France's de Villepin stopped him.

"You do not want to make this comparison," de Villepin said. "Don't do this."

Posted by Frank G 2003-04-14 18:19:16|| 2003-04-14 18:19:16|| Front Page Top

#9 We have to concentrate on giving the Iraqi people the victory they deserve.â

My aren't we getting plural lately.

Posted by elbud 2003-04-14 20:28:47|| 2003-04-14 20:28:47|| Front Page Top

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