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To: zonder who wrote (11788)	10/1/2003 12:06:06 PM
From: bob	Read Replies (1) of 14610

<< Asked today whether the vote would be canceled, Bush said with obvious irritation: "I was the guy that said they ought to vote. One country voted -- showed their cards, I believe -- it's an old Texas expression -- show your cards, when you're playing poker. France showed their cards. . . . They said they are going to veto anything that held Saddam to account. So cards have been played." French President Jacques Chirac said this morning that he was willing to shorten to 30 days a deadline of 120 days his government had suggested several weeks ago for continued inspections. But French officials have said their nonnegotiable demand is that they will not support an "automatic" invasion, and they insist the council would have to meet again if Iraq failed "benchmark" tests. Cheney and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell suggested that France was blocking action against Iraq out of self-interest. Citing the French "track record" over a number of years, Cheney said "they have consistently opposed attempts to hold Saddam Hussein responsible." Powell, on "Meet the Press," said he did not think the 30-day proposal was "that big a concession," adding, "I don't know exactly what President Chirac is proposing. All I know is that when the United Kingdom came forward with an adjustment to the resolution that's on the table last week," extending the deadline for Iraq to prove it had decided to turn its weapons of mass destruction over to inspectors, "the instant response from the French government was, 'We'll veto it. We'll veto anything that leads to serious consequences for Iraqi noncompliance.'>> palcus.org

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