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To: zonder who wrote (4354)	2/19/2003 11:38:55 AM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) of 15987

The situation is dripping with irony. After months of rhetoric where Chirac accused the US of "unilateralism", Chirac now appears to be the one who is unilateral. With 19 members of the NATO council, 16 voted in favor of sending defensive units to Turkey and only three voted against, vetoing the initiative. And when the issue was moved to a different venue, where the other 18 also participate but where France is not a member, more or less the same initiative passed (because Germany and Belgium did not resist it). Equally, it now seems as if a large number of current members of the EU, and an overwhelming percentage of candidates, don't see the US as the Great Satan and do seem to think that inspections lasting essentially forever are not acceptable. Which makes France's threatened veto of any upcoming UNSC resolution authorizing war look increasingly like unilateral French action which will not be taken after consultation with its neighbors. Chirac has become what he accused Bush of being. denbeste.nu

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