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Politics : Let's Start The War And Get It Over With
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To: PROLIFE who wrote (761)3/13/2003 5:33:08 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 808
 
What France really wants

A medium-sized
power with
super-sized
ambitions


President Bush listens to
President Jacques Chirac of
France as they brief reporters
in the Rose Garden last
November.


ANALYSIS
By Dan Goure
MSNBC

WASHINGTON, March 13 — Sigmund Freud is reported to have
once exclaimed in sheer exasperation, “What do women
want?” The same question can be asked today about France.


















ON THE ONE hand, France voted for U.N. Resolution 1441 in
November, a resolution that explicitly acknowledges that Iraq had
and still has weapons of mass destruction, that it is in material
breach of 17 prior disarmament resolutions and giving it a final
chance to come clean. On the other hand, the government of
President Jacques Chirac not only opposes any effort to declare
Iraq delinquent according to 1441, it has organized the opposition
to U.S. efforts to bring the current crisis to a definitive conclusion.
Paris has lobbied the non-permanent members of the Security
Council against the Anglo-American second resolution. It even has
declared its willingness to veto that resolution if it achieved the
nine votes necessary for passage. France also sought to block
NATO assistance to one of its own members, Turkey, forcing the
other members of that organization to neutralize France’s
obstructionism by moving to an alternate venue. And on Thursday,
the French rejected the new British effort at compromise, beating
even Iraq to the punch.

msnbc.com
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