France Vows to Block Resolution on Iraq War [CHEESE-EATING SURRENDER MONKEY ALERT]

Washington Compost ^ | 01/21/2003 | Glenn Kessler and Colum Lynch

[Publius Maximus]

France Vows to Block Resolution on Iraq War

U.S. Schedule Put at Risk By U.N. Debate

By Glenn Kessler and Colum Lynch
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 21, 2003; Page A01

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 20 -- France suggested today it would wage a major diplomatic fight, including possible use of its veto power, to prevent the U.N. Security Council from passing a resolution authorizing military action against Iraq.

France's opposition to a war, emphatically delivered here by Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, is a major blow for the Bush administration, which has begun pouring tens of thousands of troops into the Persian Gulf in preparation for a military conflict this spring. The administration had hoped to mark the final phase in its confrontation with Iraq when U.N. weapons inspectors deliver a progress report Monday.

But in a diplomatic version of an ambush, France and other countries used a high-level Security Council meeting on terrorism to lay down their markers for the debate that will commence next week on the inspectors' report. Russia and China, which have veto power, and Germany, which will chair the Security Council in February, also signaled today they were willing to let the inspections continue for months.

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"If war is the only way to resolve this problem, we are going down a dead end," de Villepin told reporters. "Already we know for a fact that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs are being largely blocked, even frozen. We must do everything possible to strengthen this process."

[OneLoyalAmerican]

LOL! Probably an urban legend, but a pretty assessment of the situation. ROFL!

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

France and Germany are doing a good job of killing the UN, if I may say so. Whether they mean to or not, they are trying to foist 'rules' on us that no other nation seems to be abiding by, whether in an effort to force us to leave the UN or not is left to be seen. Certainly, the wars that Europe wants to fight require no UN resolutions...or Russia...or France with regards to Ivory Coast.

[ottersnot]

LOL.
This reminds me of a hilarious Simpsons episode
where Lisa is playing Joan of Arc's life
in a little satire of history.
She is trying to exhort her french troops to "Victory",
but the General (Chief Wiggums) laments there is no such word in their language.
Hilarious and fitting.

[ottersnot]

France (and Germany) simply DO NOT want the world to find out their role in supplying Iraq with materials for WMD.

bingo!

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

If only ww2 could be fought over again!I would refuse to fight to save the"armpits"of france!

[Just mythoughts]

Is Hillary's former assistant Maggie Williams still in France?

[Man of the Right]

Powell really used the President and the U.S. badly taking us down this humiliating road. Imagine asking the French for permission to defend ourselves.

[Man of the Right]

Not me. This summer, I'm driving down the Natchez Trace to Natchez and New Orleans, taking the Delta Queen up river, and catching Graceland and hopefully the new panda at the Memphis zoo. Any tax dollars will benefit Americans, not the Frogs.

No more bad hotel service, rude waiters, larcenous cab drivers, execrable food, and general filth. Paris: City of Merde. Germany? Where's the 8th Air Force when we really need it!

Travel America.

[Man of the Right]

The cost is too high. Impregnate their women to replenish their gene pool.

France: the genetic argument against incest.

[ffusco]

The only people who Bush needs to convince are the American people. The French are already damned. Existentialism and Descarte have rendered them useless.

[spokeshave]

and French kisses.....Tipper will be disapointed

[FightThePower!]

We want the UN to be in New York, it makes it easier for the NSA to intercept messages from every diplomat in every country in the world.

[Momaw Nadon]

I'm fed up with those cheese eating surrender monkeys and think it may be time to start an Attack on France Betting Pool!

[ARCADIA]

Shhhh, if they find out, they will just surrender again.