France Will Veto Iraq War Resolution if it Gets U.N. Majority- Chirac

Dow Jones | 03/10/03

[rumrunner]

RTRS: France Will Veto Iraq War Resolution if it Gets U.N. Majority- Chirac

[Terriergal]

RTRS: France Will Veto Iraq War Resolution if it Gets U.N. Majority- Chirac

Big surprise there.

[Consort]

I'm getting tired of posts about vetos. Let's give it a rest until after the war.

[Dog]

So Chirac just conceded we have the votes??

[Terriergal]

We'd best just start the war now then.

Yes I'll third that...

[NeoCaveman]

Chirac is Saddam's buttboy

[Mo1]

Yea, he admits that Saddam isn't disarming but won't vote for the resolution ..

Sounds like he wants to have his cake and eat it too

Too late Chirac .. the damage is done

[RummyChick]

i saw just the opposite thought on this


giving the signal so that countries don't vote for it knowing it won't pass anyway...thus make it look like we have no support

Shep saying China ready to use veto

[Robe]

In my best Blooklyn accent(if I could do one )

.....Yo...,Chirac... I got ya VETO right here !!!!

[Wphile]

Hey Chirac - GO AHEAD AND DO IT! France will be on the wrong side of history, AGAIN.

My mother who is a total Francophile - or I should say, WAS a total Francophile - said to me last night, "the French can all drown in the Seine as far as I'm concerned!" Pretty well sums it up for me!

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Yeah, bomb france.

[Irene Adler]

Thank you for the reference to the Ledeen article in the NR. Quite chilling. If I knew how to do so, I would post it.

[Mo1]

Fox News is now reporting that China and Russia will also veto any new resolution

[Cap Huff]

If so, great. This could result in best case scenario under the circumstances. Nine votes yes, we can claim a moral victory, so to speak. France casts a veto and sinks the U.N. We go anyway into Iraq and rid ourselves of that mess. I am sick of all the nonsense going on in the U.N., but we're in the swamp now, and this might be a good way out.

[aristeides]

Russia to use veto to scupper US-British war resolution.

[DoughtyOne]

Saddam Hussein wins one. This is a gift from France. Another gift from China is forthcoming. Sky News states that Hussein will use WMDs against our troops. France and China speachless.

[Southack]

"Chirac came on TV and announced this himself. I suspect we just might have the votes."

Precisely. Powell must have gotten enough votes for this to pass, thus France is now playing its last card in an attempt to get some more "No" votes.

[Mr. Mojo]

And China just said they'll veto as well...."no matter what."

[agincourt1415]

YO, Chirac, we got your Aircraft Carrier, (that does not work) HOSTAGE!

We're gona unload youse surrendering French Frogs and make a Fishing Reef outa it.

[mhking]

They're afraid. They know they're backed into a corner. Let 'em. We'll just plow right on over them.

Almost sounds like the french WANT to do away with the UN, doesn't it?