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France says security must be restored in Iraq
AP WorldStream ^
| 4-11-03
Posted on 04/11/2003 10:14:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MADRID, Spain, Apr 11, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said Friday that security must be restored to Iraq, and reiterated that the United Nations must have a central role in reconstruction.
"The most urgent matter in Iraq today is security, before undertaking the challenge of the political, administrative, social and economic reconstruction," de Villepin said after a meeting with Spanish counterpart Ana Palacio in Madrid.
"Iraq has to be a safe country again," he said.
Law and order has collapsed with the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in the face of the U.S.-led invasion, with citizens going on looting sprees across the country.
France led European opposition to the war along with Germany and Russia, and has insisted the United Nations has to take the key role in rebuilding the country once the fighting is over.
"Reconstruction can only be based on international legitimacy. We need international legitimacy. We need energy and support from all the countries in the region, from the Arab word, from the international community, because the only possibility of achieving positive results is that everyone works in the same direction," de Villepin said.
He also called on the international community to seek peace in the Middle East region by finding solutions to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: france; frenchwhine; irrelevant; un; wankers
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"France Says......"That's where I stopped reading.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
France needs to STFU! Who gives a rat's a** what these disgusting collaborators think!
To: Oldeconomybuyer
And I say security must be restored to France!
(I wonder which will happen first?)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
M. Vile-pin, shut your face and send over some of your gendarmes to Baghdad to help out.
On second thought, DON't send them. Sanitation facilities are not restored yet, and a lot of French poodles running around can make a melluvahess.
Leni
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posted on
04/11/2003 10:39:11 AM PDT
by
MinuteGal
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Where do we write to tell this knucklehead to go p!ss up a rope?
Or better yet, to get Rumsfeld to tell him?
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posted on
04/11/2003 10:42:36 AM PDT
by
Redbob
To: ken5050
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posted on
04/11/2003 10:45:51 AM PDT
by
Redbob
To: Oldeconomybuyer
France says security must be restored in IraqThen veto the looting... (French idiots)
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posted on
04/11/2003 10:47:05 AM PDT
by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
To: Freedom'sWorthIt
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posted on
04/11/2003 10:50:40 AM PDT
by
thasea
To: Oldeconomybuyer
From the French Embassy website:(speaking of the apochryphal 'Marianne')
"Why is it a woman and not a man who represents the Republic?"
"Why?" indeed...
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posted on
04/11/2003 10:52:19 AM PDT
by
Redbob
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
04/11/2003 10:54:38 AM PDT
by
BigLittle
(....and it t'was not so long ago........................<b> SCREW THE FROGS!</B>)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:00:12 AM PDT
by
drq
To: Oldeconomybuyer
piss on france.
Every man, woamn and child.
they are huge supporters of geneocidal maniacs ranging from Hitler, Hutus, Mugabe and up to Saddam.
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:22:31 AM PDT
by
Kay Soze
(For every 100 Osamas created in the fight on terrorism - we shall elect one more "W")
To: thasea; ken5050
Thank you! (LOL, Ken5050)
To: Kay Soze
NO MORE WMDs FOR OIL
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:24:55 AM PDT
by
Kay Soze
(For every 100 Osamas created in the fight on terrorism - we shall elect one more "W")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Reconstruction can only be based on international legitimacy. Heh heh... that's what they said about war, too.
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posted on
04/11/2003 11:26:16 AM PDT
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: Oldeconomybuyer
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said Friday that security must be restored to Iraq, and reiterated that the United Nations must have a central role in reconstruction.Monsieur, one cannot have it both ways.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
When will he retore security to France so a Jew can walk safely down a street in france?
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posted on
04/11/2003 3:17:30 PM PDT
by
Kay Soze
(For every 100 Osamas created in the fight on terrorism - we shall elect one more "W")
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