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Our French Problem
Christopher Ruddy
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
I once read that France’s hostility toward America comes from a psychological disorder that affects rescued persons.
Typically, a person rescued – whose life is saved by another – is grateful to his or her rescuer. But psychologists will tell you this is not always the case.
Sometimes psychologists find that the rescued person comes to absolutely despise the person who saved them – the person who pulled them up from the proverbial edge of the cliff.
Why?
One reason may be that the rescued person feels inadequate that they did not save themselves. Every time they see their rescuer, that person reminds them of their own inadequacies.
Perhaps this is how France sees America. We know that America saved France in WWI, WWII, and later with the Marshall Plan and during the Cold War.
French thinking appears to be twisted. Since the end of WWII, France and her people have developed a reputation of disdain for American.
France limited its involvement with us and took a back seat in the NATO alliance. For the past several decades France has been the main proponent of the European Union.
The goal of the European Union has been clear: isolate a united Europe, divide the Western alliance and reduce American supremacy.
Still, for most of the Cold War French criticism of America had been somewhat muted, perhaps owing to America’s superpower status.
However, with the clear desire of the United States to change the regime in Iraq and disarm Saddam Hussein, France has moved from passive dissent to outright defiance of American wishes.
Perhaps it’s even worse. The Washington Times reports this week that French companies have been actively helping Saddam Hussein’s war machine in the past several months as U.S. forces prepare to invade.
France has now become an active supporter of America’s No. 1 enemy. France’s activities are outrageous. America must confront France.
After our success in Iraq, America should make sure that France pays a price for taking the lead in building an anti-American coalition, and for helping our enemy at a time of war.
There are many steps our government can take to curtail France’s power. Perhaps it is time for India to get the Security Council seat now occupied by France.
and this
Seeking the Truth in Iraq
Geoff Metcalf
Sunday, March 9, 2003
Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of its husk, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own. – John Ruskin
Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix has proven himself to be a disingenuous, duplicitous slug, and reportedly U.S. officials are p.o.-ed about his fictional objectivity.
Blix apparently didn’t bother to inform the Security Council about an Iraqi remotely piloted drone in his oral presentation to foreign ministers. Rather, a report declassified by the U.N. recently contained the hidden bombshell of omission. Buried in a 173-page single-spaced epic is the epiphany that inspectors had recently found an undeclared Iraqi drone with a wingspan of 7.45m.
What’s the big whoop? It suggests an illegal range that could threaten Iraq’s neighbors with chemical and biological weapons.
U.S. officials were irate that Blix did not inform the Security Council about the drone and apparently tried to sequester the report in the 173-page single-spaced tome.
Honoré De Balzac once said, “A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.”
According to the report, “Recent inspections have also revealed the existence of a drone with a wingspan of 7.45m that has not been declared by Iraq.” Although they don’t report the capabilities or specifications of the drones, Iraq is restricted from having them by the same U.N. rules as missiles (which limit range to about 92 miles).
In February, Secretary of State Colin Powell told the Security Council Washington had evidence that Iraq had test-flown a drone in a race-track pattern for 500km non-stop. Blix documented the claim but didn’t feel compelled to tell anyone.
So what? you ask. Connect the dots. Elsewhere in the labyrinth of words, inspectors give warning that Iraq still has spraying devices and drop tanks that could be used in dispersing chemical and biological agents from aircraft.
“A large number of drop tanks of various types, both imported and locally manufactured, are available and could be modified,” it says. Gosh-oh-gee-golly … and Hans didn’t think that sufficiently salient to articulate to the Security Council when he spoke to them?
“The truths we accept are so multiple that honesty becomes little more than a strategy by which you manage your tendencies toward duplicity,” noted cultural scholar Ann Douglas.
The report also details the possible chemical and biological arsenal that British and U.S. forces could face in an invasion of Iraq. Reportedly,
Iraq has huge stockpiles of anthrax,
may be developing long-range missiles,
could possess chemical and biological R400 aerial bombs,
Scud missiles
and even smallpox.
Any non-French, non-German or non-Iraqi member of the Security Council would probably find those facts significant.
Gen. Powell was compelled to resort to reading passages from the paper out loud in the Council chamber. He pointed out that it chronicled
nearly 30 times when Iraq had failed to provide credible evidence to substantiate its claims.
17 instances when inspectors uncovered evidence that contradicted those claims.
However, Powell’s draft copy (from a meeting of the inspectors’ advisory board last week) did not contain the crucial passage about the new drone.
The Blix decision to declassify the internal report is the first time the U.N. has made public its suspicions about Iraq’s banned weapons programs, rather than what it has been able to actually confirm.
An obvious question is why declassify a report that (when the details were read) would come back and bite him so hard?
“UNMOVIC [U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission] has credible information that the total quantity of biological warfare agent in bombs, warheads and in bulk at the time of the Gulf War was 7,000 liters more than declared by Iraq.”
This additional agent was “most likely all anthrax,” it says.
There is “credible information” indicating that 21,000 liters of biological warfare agent,
including some 10,000 liters of anthrax, was stored in bulk at locations around the country during the war
and was never destroyed.
“Some” reassurance about Iraq’s missing botulinum toxin
UNMOVIC believes it is “unlikely to retain much, if any, of its potency” if it has been stockpiled since 1991.
John Ruskin once observed, “The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.”
Recently a well-intended friend was asking why go after Iraq when North Korea is rattling nuclear sabers so loudly. My response was and is: We should have already finished with Iraq and now be engaged in dulling the North Korean sabers before they fuel their nuclear arsenal.
Visit Geoff Metcalf's Web site at geoffmetcalf.com. He may be contacted at geoff@geoffmetcalf.com.
Germany and especially Russia and oil-hungry France have strong economic ties to Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. The New York Post has dubbed these appeasement nations as the "Axis of Weasel." |
