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Politics : Your Thoughts Regarding France? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: H-Man who wrote (289)	3/10/2003 5:04:55 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 662

>>(Rather reminds you of a flea floating downstream with a hard-on yelling: “open the draw bridge”.) Indeed it does! ROFLMAO!

To: H-Man who wrote (289)	3/11/2003 3:36:53 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 662

Re: Far from being the gambler Bush has been portrayed to be, it is the French, who were gambling. They were betting that their threat of a veto would prevent a vote on a second resolution. What they did not count on was Bush calling their bluff. Huh?!? What bluff??? France pledges to block a UN resolution authorizing war Barry James International Herald Tribune Tuesday, March 11, 2003 PARIS President Jacques Chirac of France pledged Monday to veto a UN resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq and said he was considering whether to fly to New York to plead his case personally before the Security Council. Chirac called on other world leaders to join him at the United Nations, but President George W. Bush made clear he would not attend the debate over the proposed resolution, sponsored by the United States, Britain and Spain, that would authorize the use of force against Iraq if it failed to take major steps toward disarmament by March 17. In Moscow, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said the government was "carefully analyzing" whether President Vladimir Putin would travel to New York after the foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, said his government would veto a draft resolution that contained "unattainable ultimatums and demands." The German chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, saying that "France can count on Germany," was planning to fly to New York. "There is no reason at the moment to stop the work of the UN inspectors," Schroeder said. Chirac said it might not be necessary to exercise France's veto if a majority on the council voted against the resolution, but he made it clear that France was determined to vote "no" if the resolution did garner a majority. [...] iht.com