Thanks, but no thanks, France (AMEN ALERT)

The Washington Times ^ | March 19, 2003 | Editors

[conservativecorner]

Yesterday, the French ambassador to the United States, Jean-David Levitte, announced that despite France's opposition to a war in Iraq, "if Saddam Hussein were to use chemical and biological weapons, this would change the situation completely and immediately for the French government ... We have equipment to fight in such circumstances." Thanks, but no thanks, M. Levitte.

[trebb]

Any more to the reports that French agents are destroying papers that tie France to Iraq's WMD?

[DB]

I hope the French pay dearly.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And, no matter how you happen to feel about the institution, France has destroyed the Security Council of the UN, if not the UN itself.

[alisasny]

With the weather getting hotter and hotter over there daily it sickens me that the weasels were attempting to postpone the inevitable and put our troops in even greater harm.

[gramho12]

Can the French be any more obnoxious? What pathetic, irrelevant JERKS. I'm beginning to agree with the Congresswoman - SEND OUR BRAVE, DEAD SOLDIERS HOME - we can honor them with the dignity and respect they deserve.

[CatoRenasci]

The French must pay more than dearly, they must be bled dry and left to wither without succor.

[Mamzelle]

The French must suffer the consequences of their treachery.

[MadIvan]

France can drop dead. They had a chance to be honourable - they flunked it.

Regards, Ivan

[rrrod]

the french and germans need to pay ....possible war crimes trials???

[xJones]

"if Saddam Hussein were to use chemical and biological weapons, this would change the situation completely and immediately for the French government

This is so typically illogical. The French government has been all but doing a chorus line dance with Saddam that he doesn't even have such weapons. Saddam has said numerous times that he doesn't, then he threatens using them, and even his own son has turned around and threatened the use of the "non-existant" WMD. You can't have it both ways, unless you're French, of course.

We have equipment to fight in such circumstances.

Yes, but the French don't have any men to fight, let alone operate the equipment. And who would want to be in a foxhole next to a Frenchman? Those pompous windbags are looking even worse than they did the day before.

[usslsm51]

They have the same equipment they had during WWI and WWII.

[N. Theknow]

Iraq will most definitely NOT use chem or bio weapons because they certainly don't want to get the merciless, ferocious, bloodthirsty French involved.

[ken5050]

Hmmm..maybe we do have something to thank the French for...

[pjd]

Is it possible that France was actually working with us with all that veto talk?

I think Bush made a mistake in calling for another resolution and needed a way to back out of it. If a vote was called, and even if we had enough votes, that would have set a deadline perhapes weeks from now. It would have also set a precident that we need UN approval to act in our own interests. And if we lost the vote it would have been even more complicated.

By not having the vote, we avoided all that mess. So I kind of thank the French for getting us out of the UN, so to speak.

Maybe, behind the scenes, we were encouraging the French to act as obstructionists and they bravely agreed to take a lot of flack to help us out of the UN delays.

I know it is far out, but it has worked out that way. If the resolution had passed, we would be waiting for another 2-week deadline (after which it would be too late.) If we lost the vote, we'd have egg on our face. Thanks to the French, there was no vote.

[Huck]

And, no matter how you happen to feel about the institution, France has destroyed the Security Council of the UN, if not the UN itself.

They did a French impression (har har) of John C Calhoun.

[battlegearboat]

sans culottes

[Yankee]

50% of the French use a bidet.

Some of them are women too.

[Yankee]

No Frenchman has had "equipment" since Lafayette.

They are a nation of eunichs.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think you're on to something.