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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (11791)	10/1/2003 5:14:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

Well, you asked for it: France, Russia promise veto; U.S. tries to bolster case ......................................................... French President Jacques Chirac said Monday that France would use its U.N. Security Council veto to block a resolution authorizing war against Iraq. "Whatever happens, France will vote 'no'," Chirac said on LCI television in his first televised interview on the Iraq crisis, Reuters reported. cnn.com France threatens veto Allies say France makes consensus impossible By Barbara Slavin, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — As their effort to win United Nations support for a war in Iraq teetered on the verge of collapse Sunday, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair blamed France for their failure to assemble a broad international coalition against the regime of Saddam Hussein. Even as he demanded U.N. backing for the use of force, a visibly angry Bush said France had made that support impossible by vowing "to veto anything that held Saddam Hussein to account." Blair did not mention France by name as he and Bush spoke to reporters after a brief summit of U.S., British and Spanish leaders and their Portuguese hosts in the Azores Islands on Sunday. But Blair complained that "some say there should be no ultimatum, no authorization of force in any new U.N. resolution." That attitude, he said, complicated efforts to send Saddam a "strong, unified message on the part of the international community." The United States, Britain and Spain have been seeking U.N. Security Council approval for a new resolution that would pave the way for war; it would follow a resolution the council approved Nov. 8 that restarted weapons inspections and threatened "serious consequences" if Iraq did not comply. France has led efforts to defeat the new resolution. In advance of the Azores summit, French President Jacques Chirac repeated France's intention to veto the new resolution, which makes it unlikely that its backers will seek a vote today at the U.N. "France is not pacifist," Chirac told CBS' 60 Minutes. "But we just feel that there is ... a less dramatic way than war, and that we have to go through that path. And we should pursue it until we've come (to) a dead end, but that isn't the case." usatoday.com President Chirac's position on Iraq should have been anticipated France's threat to veto a second United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force to disarm Iraq has led to a rising tide of recrimination and feelings of French betrayal. inquisitoronline.com Any other questions?