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To: i-node who wrote (161583)	2/19/2003 12:19:36 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575400

So when Rumsfeld dismissed France and Germany as "old Europe" last month It is a little tough to criticize the guy for his absolute honesty and openness. A fart also is an honest and open gesture; yet it tends to smell up the joint. ted

To: i-node who wrote (161583)	2/19/2003 12:24:19 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575400

David, you'll love this story, especially the parts I highlighted in bold: Powell: Anti-War Camp 'Afraid of Responsibility' story.news.yahoo.com Wed Feb 19, 7:54 AM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! PARIS (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) accused countries like France that want more time for arms inspections in Iraq of being "afraid" to take responsibility for a possible war to disarm Baghdad. Powell's comments, in an interview broadcast on Wednesday by French public radio France Info, were a clear reproach to French President Jacques Chirac, who has pushed hard for a longer, more intense inspection process in Iraq. Powell also said Washington already had United Nations (news - web sites) authority under November's resolution 1441 to use force even without a second resolution it was now drafting. France, which like Russia and Germany has opposed U.S. and British proposals for military action against Iraq, says it sees no need for a new resolution but has left open whether it would use its veto in the Security Council if the majority was in favor. "It cannot be a satisfactory solution for inspections just to continue forever because some nations are afraid of stepping up to the responsibility of imposing the will of the international community," Powell said in comments that followed weeks of increasingly irate exchanges across the Atlantic. "And so we are working with our friends and allies to (define) the content of a second resolution and when one would table such a resolution. I would also point out that many of us believe, and the United States believes, that there is probably enough authority in resolution 1441 to take action," he added. "Iraq must disarm. The question is how much time Iraq should be given to disarm. We believe time is running out. "It is not a matter of more inspectors or a longer inspection process. French colleagues think that that is the issue. That is not the issue in our judgment," Powell said. Baghdad must provide answers to specific questions such as the fate of banned weapons it previously admitted having. Some of Chirac's critics accuse him of turning Powell, a fellow advocate of the United Nations' role in the Iraq crisis within an otherwise skeptical U.S. administration, against Paris by taking too hard a line against war. In a weekend interview with the U.S. magazine Time, Chirac sought to smooth relations with Washington by insisting France was not "pacifist" and did not rule out resorting to force if Iraq failed to cooperate with the inspectors' efforts to ensure that it had no nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. But French officials have maintained a firm line this week in insisting that inspections should go on, possibly for months.