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To: zonder who wrote (5413)	4/7/2003 1:32:07 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

Does France look like a dictatorship to you? Well, 33% of them did indicate they would prefer to see Saddam Hussein win this war. That seems to indicate that fully 1/3 of France favor repressive totalitarian regimes over any attempt to create some semblance of democratic reforms. At the very least, it indicates the 1/3 would prefer to see a democratic nation like the US defeated by a brutal totalitarian regime. Either way, it seems to be just a little more than trying to neutralize an "automatic war trigger" (which 1441 essentially was, unless you have another creative definition for the phrase "final opportunity".. :0) ods-dds-ny.un.org (paragraph 2) After all, 1441 did stipulate this was Saddam's "final opportunity" to come clean and abide by all the previous resolutions. That suggests no further UNSC actions were required. Final Opportunity means just that.. The very last chance, with no more room for discussion or votes. It certainly doesn't mean that the UNSC was going to suddenly embark upon a new policy of stipulating and directly authorizing military action, which it has never done before. All it says is use "all necessary means", or language such as "serious consequences".. The UNSC would never directly vote to use military force. That would hold them legally complicit. All they do is withhold any admonitions against using military force. And no one on the UNSC ever denied that Saddam remained in material breach. They just wanted to give Saddam one more chance, and possible even more, depending on how much pressure was placed upon them to protect French (and Russian) oil interests with this brutal regime. Is there another meaning in French for "final opportunity"?? Maybe we're having a problem with cultural differences in translating between French and English? Hawk