To: Aussie Dasher
I'll take a stab at this, some Middle-East country (Iran) offered France some sort of oil deal in return for their dropping the support for the resolution.
28 posted on
08/08/2006 7:31:32 PM PDT by
tobyhill
(The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
To: tobyhill
Now what would give you such a notion? /s
To: tobyhill
From the BBC, "Mr Chirac may hope to score a dramatic international success before next May, when his long political career is expected to end. Success or failure over Lebanon could spell the difference between glory and shame for him and his Gaullist ideas about shaping the world." - -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5257602.stmIf the BBC were talking about GW it would be about LEGACY. With Chirac it is glory.
yitbos
61 posted on
08/08/2006 9:17:13 PM PDT by
bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds. " - Ayn Rand)
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