Posted on 03/16/2007 6:53:47 PM PDT by Ellesu
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said the United States should pull out of Iraq within one year and work with Iraq's neighbors and Europe to resolve the crisis. Villepin, in a speech Friday at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government on Friday, said the United States' true strength "isn't its army." The United States in the 20th century constructed an economic and cultural model "and forged an ideal of modernity that inspired the admiration of the rest of the world," he said. "For us you represented the camp of freedom. You were the guarantors of human rights," Villepin said. But the U.S.-led war in Iraq marked a turning point, he said. "It shattered America's image. It undermined the image of the West as a whole. It is time for the United States and Europe to regain together the respect and admiration of other peoples," Villepin said. Villepin said the situation in Iraq would grow "even more dangerous" unless a framework is established for ending the crisis that included "a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops." "I believe that it should take place within a year," Villepin said. "That will allow Iraqis to feel that their future is in their hands and put them back on the path of national sovereignty." The Bush administration has opposed any timetable for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq. Villepin said that the Iraqis themselves needed to mobilize to support national reconciliation by "offering a power-sharing agreement to all those who renounce violence." "While you have foreign troops in Iraq, they have a reason not to do this work and America is just like a scapegoat ... America is the one that is responsible for every bad thing that is going on," he told reporters after the speech.
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And the stupid Euros were so inspired by the capitalistic economic model of the US they went out and suck the life out of their citizens through socialism.
Come back and lecture us when you have either a)won a war, or b)had any real economic growth.
de Vilepin is still irked over the sudden loss of profits from France doing business with Saddam. Chirac and Saddam were old buddies, going all the way back to the 70's.
de Vilepin is another yapping, cheese-eating surrender monkey that needs a stiff cup of STFU.
Same words from Achmedinjihad, Pelosi, and Murtha.
They have been "pulling out" for centuries except with "each other".
Froggy Fags. Lots of good clean guns, never shot gun collections in France.
Since when did the French have a say? They're just ornaments on the world stage...just like their poodles...
I don't remember what our timetable was for pulling out of France in 1944. In any case we didn't pull out soon enough.
They almost learned how to speak German, and are truly cheese eating surrender monkeys today.
Oooo-oooo-eeee-eeee-aa...RIBBIT!
As Patton once stated "I'd rather have the Germans in front of me than the French behind me".
Stuff it, Dominique.
Who the hell asked him?
France needs us to get out of Iraq, so they can return to stealing them blind. France is dying on the vine, and needs to prop up their defunct socialist economy.
de Villepin's mother should have insisted that de Villepin's father pull out all those years ago...
The French are suggesting that we pull out of Iraq. We should listen, after all they are the experts at “pulling out”. After all the french are the originators of the expression “when we have a chance of loosing … get the hell out”
And we should never make the mistake of helping them again.
The voice of chickensh*t.
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