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Politics : Your Thoughts Regarding France?
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To: HH who wrote (361)3/29/2003 2:13:14 AM
From: Scrapps  Read Replies (1) of 662
 
Weasel Watch
Check out this transcript from a press briefing in Paris by the French Foreign Ministry spokesman:

Q: France and Kuwait signed a defense agreement at the end of the Gulf War. What impact are these dozens of Iraqi missile attacks against Kuwait having on that agreement? What is your reaction to these attacks and should the defense agreement be invoked?

A: I have nothing to add to what the spokesman said yesterday.

Q: Why can't such a simple question get an answer for a week?

A: Quite simply, if I may say so, because we have no specific, verified information about the dozens of Iraqi missile attacks against Kuwait that you refer to.

The Associated Press reports that "violent racist attacks quadrupled in France in 2002 to the highest level in a decade, and more than half of the assaults were aimed at Jews." France's prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, seems to think America is to blame. "Raffarin said he was worried the war in Iraq would cause religious tensions in France to surge." Never mind that the report covers last year and the shooting in Iraq didn't start until this month.

Another AP report--this is really the AP, not the Onion--brings the news that "France's government angrily insisted on Friday that it hopes U.S.-led forces win the war in Iraq." Foreign Ministry spokesman Francois Rivasseau declared "that France's stand on who should win the war was 'totally devoid of ambiguity.' " What a relief.

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