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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (11801)	10/7/2003 9:00:49 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

Sorry for the late reply. I was a bit, ah, occupied :-) "Whatever happens, France will vote 'no'," Chirac said What he actually said is that France will veto ANY resolution that gave way to an automatic invasion of Iraq if certain conditions are not met, WITHOUT a further UN decision. He not only said this in as many words, but as I was reading just today in this month's Prospect magazine, he personally explained this to Blair: Then on 10th March, Chirac made his infamous statement that France would vote against a new UN resolution, "whatever the circumstances." Riddell reports that Blair rang Chirac to clarify exactly what he meant. Chirac said he would not agree to an ultimatum which implied war if Saddam failed to take certain actions by a certain date. www.prospect-magazine.co.uk [click on "Blair's Five Wars". The whole article is pretty interesting]