[Mark Felton]

I understand France has plenty of cold water to pour...bottles of Perrier unsold to Americans...

[dc-zoo]

France can stick their opinion where the sun don't shine and they'll probably enjoy it.

[america-rules]

France doesn't have any troops worth a crap so why does the left wing press keep asking this?

[Redcloak]

Um... Excuse me... or should I say "excusez-moi"... but the "sunny vision" of French troops marching to the rescue in Iraq belongs to John Kerry; not George Bush.

[Jim Robinson]

Sign at one of our support our troops rallies before the Iraq war began:

F--- Iraq. Nuke France!

[BigWaveBetty]

"It is common knowledge that the UN is often unable to exert and effective influence on global economic and political issues of critical importance," Singh said.

NO!!! Really?

"This is due to it's democracy deficit, which prevents effective multilateralism.

Democracy deficit? Is that the nuanced way to say the UN's full of dictators and tyrants?

"The expansion of the Security Council ... and the inclusion of countries like India as permanent members, would be a first step in the process of making the UN a truly representative body," he said.

Yippee! The UN will go from monumental fecklessness to uber fecklessness.

"Development must return to the center of global discourse," he said, noting that UN members had already "fallen behind" in implementing the ambitious programmes envisaged by the Millennium Summit four years ago.

I rest my fecklessness case.

[fuzzy122]

[ChewedGum]

The Indian Prime Minister quote was just touched in this article, but it is actually a pretty solid statement. Here is the quote in unbutchered form:

Terrorism exploits the technologies spawned by globalisation, recruits its foot soldiers on ideologies of bigotry and hatred, and directly targets democracies. And yet it is a sad reality that international networks of terror appear to cooperate more effectively among themselves than the democratic nations that they target. We speak about cooperation, but seem hesitant to commit ourselves to a global offensive to root out terrorism, with the pooling of resources, exchange of information, sharing of intelligence, and the unambiguous unity of purpose required. This must change. We do have a global coalition against terrorism. We must now give it substance and credibility, avoiding selective approaches and political expediency.

Transcript of his speech is here

Gum

[An.American.Expatriate]

"In Iraq, violence is exploding. Only when the Iraqis themselves take control of their future ... will the country be able to escape the chaos which could destabilise the entire region," Barnier told the UN General Assembly.

But the French had NO PROBLEM proping up the dictator who controlled Iraq's future.

[10mm]

[pollywog]

As Teresa Kerry would say " Who cares"!!!

[bullseye1911]

"For 40 years, the composition of the Security Council has remained unchanged," Fischer said. "It is high time to adapt it to the new global reality. Half-baked or interim solutions are neither necessary nor helpful."

I actually agree! Let's give him the U.S. seat and send the whole bunch of Euro, Islamist, leftist and communist trash to their utopia: Brussels! (include the IMF with them. keep our "contributions" and pay the deficit!)

[Ichneumon]

France pours cold water on Bush's sunny vision of Iraq

The astute reader will note that the headline bears little resemblance to the actual contents of the article.

[Rutles4Ever]

But but but -- I thought John Kerry said he could put together an international coalition???

I guess he's down to at three-point plan for Iraq.

[NRA1995]

(in Soup Nazi voice) NO TROOPS FOR YOU!! (fingers snap)

[YOUGOTIT]

From a small, insignificant 3rd world country whose police will not go into the slums around Paris for fear of Islamic Radicals these statements supports Islamic Terrorist and are another slap at the American people. Boycott France, Belgium and Germany.

[mabelkitty]

From the folks who forged the Nigerian documents.

[Chgogal]

My dear Mr. Barnier,

We don't give a crapier what France thinks. France's history is full of perversions that has cost the lives of millions of people.

France's foreign policy toward the Iraqi people is a disgrace and France should be hanging her head in shame once again.

So, by all means keep your shoddy military and Euros home. Where ever you go there is only poverty and misery.

Au revoir mon chere.

P.S. Our US wines and restaurants beat yours any time and any day. Hehehe.

[Flint]

Hummm....what is Kerry to do now? Don't think he could talk them into changing their mind, do you?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

France pours cold water on Bush's sunny vision of Iraq

What a lame-assed title. Every time some liberal rat whines about a Repub's policies, the liberal media loves to boast a huge headline that they "slammed", "lambasted", or "poured cold water" on their policy. To "slam" or "lambaste" somebody, you have to have some good logical points. France isn't even in the ballpark. Hell, they're not on the same planet.

[BlueLancer]

Heck, the EU should only have one seat on the Security Counsel ... unless they're willing to have Texas, California, New York, etc, to have seats as well.