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France looking at supplying Iraqi Kurds with arms: FM
AFP Via Yahoo News ^ | 08/10/2014

Posted on 08/10/2014 6:51:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Paris (AFP) - France, in consultation with its EU partners, is looking at supplying arms to Iraq's Kurds to fight against Islamic State jihadists, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Sunday.

"One way or another, they must receive, in a sure way, equipment that will allow them to defend themselves and to counterattack," Fabius told France 2 television from Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.

"We will look into that over the coming days but in liaison with the Europeans," he said from the city, which is not far from the IS frontline.

France and Britain have pledged support for a US-led operation helping Iraqi civilians -- many of them from the Yazidi minority -- who are fleeing a murderous advance by Islamic State (IS) militants

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: allyfrance; france; iraq; isis; kurds
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1 posted on 08/10/2014 6:51:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

We should have supplied the Kurds with enough arms and equipment to make it unnecessary for France to do it, but I’m glad France is doing this. Now we can see if Obama is willing to do the right thing.


2 posted on 08/10/2014 6:54:44 PM PDT by pallis
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To: pallis

Oh, no, we’re behind France! How feckless this administration is.


3 posted on 08/10/2014 6:59:46 PM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: lulu16

Obama will be remembers as the most craven president in history.


4 posted on 08/10/2014 7:11:38 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: SeekAndFind

unexpectedly brave move by the frogs. France probably has as many jihadists within its boarders as ISIS has soldiers.


5 posted on 08/10/2014 7:16:52 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

In California, when they force the kids to study him in school, he will be the peacemaker, because he would not be provoked.

I keep wondering what his fate would be like if he were a character ( as himself) in Game of Thrones.


6 posted on 08/10/2014 7:18:50 PM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: JohnBrowdie

They have Africans on their border champing to get in. They read the writing on the wall. ( Finally)But they seem to do nothing about their violent pro Palestinians in their communities.

The other day CNN (they have surprisingly good specialists) one guy from the UK kept on nattering about the “international community.” Wolf Blitzer slammed him down by saying that the international community has been mum about the Christians in Iraq or their desire to help in Iraq at all.


7 posted on 08/10/2014 7:22:31 PM PDT by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bump


8 posted on 08/10/2014 7:26:01 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: SeekAndFind

When France is more courageous than Obama, you know he has put his “leading from behind” policy” is fully implemented and has placed the USA way, way behind every Western nation.


9 posted on 08/10/2014 7:29:46 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind

And France gets their weapons from .... Where?

Do they actually make any?


10 posted on 08/10/2014 7:36:43 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: SeekAndFind

If all else fails, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YqpAEA3wYE


11 posted on 08/10/2014 7:59:25 PM PDT by Bronzy
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France and Britain have pledged support for a US-led operation helping Iraqi civilians -- many of them from the Yazidi minority -- who are fleeing a murderous advance by Islamic State (IS) militants....

If this is the case it will never happen (even if obama was not on vacation and fund raising).

12 posted on 08/10/2014 8:07:55 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: SeekAndFind

Send in the feral boars.


13 posted on 08/10/2014 8:10:56 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

Meanwhile, Obama tees-off...


14 posted on 08/10/2014 8:25:06 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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...France probably has as many jihadists within its boarders as ISIS has soldiers.

France has ISIS boarders?

Who knew?

15 posted on 08/10/2014 8:33:02 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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To: Scotswife
And France gets their weapons from .... Where?

Do they actually make any?


Yes. Quite a range of weapons, in fact.
16 posted on 08/10/2014 8:33:13 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Scotswife

Dassault Aviation, EADS and NEXTER, a government-owned arms manufacturer. They have their own aircraft carrier, the Dassault Rafale fighter jet and the LeClerc tank.

Remember, the French build their own nuclear weapons. The French are independent and don’t want to be vassals to other nations.

Back in the day, the French where the only country willing to sell Israel modern fighter jets.


17 posted on 08/10/2014 8:33:34 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: SeekAndFind

Into the vacuum those who formerly got to rely on us will now rush. And our power, once given away, will be hard to obtain again.


18 posted on 08/10/2014 8:34:10 PM PDT by Defiant (4 main US grps: conservatives, useless idiots (aka RINOs), marxists and useful idiots (aka liberals))
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To: publius911

I wonder how much they pay for rent?


19 posted on 08/10/2014 8:34:36 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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...France probably has as many jihadists within its boarders as ISIS has soldiers.


France has ISIS boarders?

Who knew?

my ipad, apparently, which incorrectly corrects my spelling at least as often as it correctly corrects my spelling.

20 posted on 08/10/2014 8:36:18 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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