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France's Sarkozy raises prospect of Iran airstrikes
Reuters ^

Posted on 08/27/2007 8:22:03 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

France's Sarkozy raises prospect of Iran airstrikes Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:25AM EDT

By Francois Murphy

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday a diplomatic push by the world's powers to rein in Tehran's nuclear program was the only alternative to "an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran".

In his first major foreign policy speech, Sarkozy emphasized his existing foreign policy priorities, such as opposing Turkish membership of the European Union and pushing for a new Mediterranean Union that he hopes will include Ankara.

He also presented some new ideas, such as possibly renewing high-level dialogue with Syria and expanding the Group of Eight industrialized nations to include the biggest developing states.

Sarkozy said a nuclear-armed Iran would be unacceptable and that major powers should continue their policy of incrementally increasing sanctions against Tehran while being open to talks if Iran suspended nuclear activities.

"This initiative is the only one that can enable us to escape an alternative that I say is catastrophic: the Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran," he said, adding that it was the worst crisis currently facing the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; iraq; islam; israel
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1 posted on 08/27/2007 8:22:05 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

If Sarkozy keeps going like this he might give the French a good name.


2 posted on 08/27/2007 8:23:26 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (RON PAUL: "It will be a little bit better now with the democrats now in charge of oversight ")
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To: Artemis Webb

Mediterranean Union. There’s an idea!


3 posted on 08/27/2007 8:25:15 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: Artemis Webb

What’s in a name? Those which we call French by any other name would still smell.


4 posted on 08/27/2007 8:30:10 AM PDT by counterpunch ("The Democrats are the party of slavery." - Cindy Sheehan)
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To: Artemis Webb

He’s got a long way to go...


5 posted on 08/27/2007 8:32:16 AM PDT by steveyp
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To: Sub-Driver
If a few more of the powers-that-be over there, not to mention here in own Congress, would endorse, or better still threaten, air strikes to curtail the Iranian nuclear program the need for them would be considerably reduced! Too bad they can’t see how important it is that Iran really believe they are in it alone. Every dissension on our side when the idea of military force to stop them is just that much more incentive for them to keep going.
6 posted on 08/27/2007 8:38:21 AM PDT by jwparkerjr (Sigh . . .)
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To: Artemis Webb

“If Sarkozy keeps going like this he might give the French a good name.”

When (not if) it goes down in Iran, it’d be great if France, Britain, Australia, Poland and our other actual allies join the fray. If not, though, we’ll go it alone and be just fine.


7 posted on 08/27/2007 8:38:59 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: Sub-Driver

Holy Crap! France is... France is...

...making a hell of a lot more sense than d@mn near anybody I’ve heard in a long time.

It’s as if hell has frozen over. France making sense. But it has!!

(Thank G-d somebody in Euro-weenie-land is finally talking sense.)


8 posted on 08/27/2007 9:32:09 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Republicans only win if they are conservative.)
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To: Sub-Driver

If Hillary becomes President, God forbid, France might now be the place to immigrate.


9 posted on 08/27/2007 10:35:02 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: gogogodzilla
France making sense.

And not just about Iran!

How about this comment from Sarko further down in the article: Russia is imposing its return on the world scene by using its assets, notably oil and gas, with a certain brutality...When one is a great power, one should not be brutal.

He dah ~man~!

10 posted on 08/27/2007 10:48:12 AM PDT by SergeiRachmaninov (Not buying Fred yet...still shopping)
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To: Artemis Webb; MAK1179; briansb
"If Sarkozy keeps going like this he might give the French a good name."

I have four sons, 17 to 25 and like all good sons, they're conservative and they've always scoffed at anything "French".

It felt really weird, but just this past weekend, I interupted the youngest during some light hearted comment about France and mentioned to him that we ought to all take a couple of month's vacation from ridiculing France and give Sarkozy a chance to make a difference. I'm not sure he's ever heard me speak up for France and I'm really not sure that I ever have!!

Just seems fair to give them a chance to prove they're not the cheese eating surrender monkey's that Chirac made them all seem like. A couple of months, that's all :-)

11 posted on 08/27/2007 10:54:24 AM PDT by Lloyd227 (and may God bless Oriana Fallaci)
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To: Artemis Webb

No way. It’s a typical European threat:

“Don’t make us call the Americans!”


12 posted on 08/27/2007 10:56:32 AM PDT by wny
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To: Sub-Driver

Am I dreaming? A French leader making sense?


13 posted on 08/27/2007 10:58:47 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Sub-Driver
VERY INTERESTING, RELATED POST LINK BELOW:

Iran- Terror Label "Paves Way For Air Strikes"

14 posted on 08/27/2007 11:20:34 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Cincinna

Ping


15 posted on 08/27/2007 11:22:47 AM PDT by kanawa (Don't go where you're looking, look where you're going.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
16 posted on 08/27/2007 1:42:11 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
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To: Lloyd227
I have four sons, 17 to 25 and like all good sons, they're conservative and they've always scoffed at anything "French".

Apropos your kid's remarks...IMHO a nutty attitude. You ought to ask them If you or they had been fighting in our American Revolution would they have turned down a French Musket, French Powder and Shot, French Boots, a French overcoat or blanket, French rations, the help of Rochambeau or deGrasse, or Lafayette, French loans, French Ships like the Bonhomme Richard?

Also, claiming to be a conservative has nothing to do with loving, or despising the French, or anyone else, for that matter.

Mais oui, Froggy can be a bit hard to take. But you know, in exchange for bailing out our butts with England, and giving us that deal on Louisiana, we ought to cut them a lot of slack. In fact, I am shocked, shocked I tell you that apparently not a man-jack of them is studying French, or planning a visit to Club Med.

17 posted on 08/27/2007 2:21:46 PM PDT by Zerodown (Petraeus: The next Eisenhower.)
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To: The Great RJ
“If Hillary becomes President, God forbid, France might now be the place to immigrate.”

Don’t buy a beret and throw away your Right Guard just yet. Apparently Sarkozy thinks bombing Iran would be “catastrophic.” Sounds more like his predecessor than like a real hawk. Read this from Yahoo News:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070827/ap_on_re_eu/france_sarkozy

18 posted on 08/27/2007 2:39:41 PM PDT by Law is not justice but process
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To: Artemis Webb

Sarkozy seems like a good bloke- trying to take away from France it’s arrogrant attitude. He seems better on Iraq too. However, in a speech today which was generally positive, he called for a timetable for troop withdrawals from iraq:

‘Turning to Iraq, he called for “a clear timetable concerning the withdrawal of foreign troops”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6965438.stm


19 posted on 08/27/2007 2:39:52 PM PDT by uksupport1
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To: Artemis Webb

Whoa there, sounds to me like Sarkozy is equating “bombing Iran” as just as bad a Iran with the bomb. Don’t be fooled by double talk.


20 posted on 08/27/2007 2:45:26 PM PDT by Theophilus (Nothing can make Americans safer than to stop aborting them.)
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