Stay safe; stay armed.
Posted on 09/04/2002 1:56:47 PM PDT by kattracks
France said it was against publishing top-secret evidence on Iraq's alleged development of weapons of mass destruction, saying the public arena was not the place to wage such a campaign.
"These are not issues which we can deal with publicly. This calls for serenity and seriousness, and we should therefore beware of any leaks and any saber-rattling proposals," Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin told France Info radio.
On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he would in the coming weeks release damning information about Baghdad's alleged efforts to develop nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, to prove the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
The foreign minister said that France and Britain had shared information on the proof of such a weapons program. and it "is out of the question to divulge these exchanges."
De Villepin said it was important to act responsibly in evaluating whether a "country could own chemical or biological weapons, and if it could turn into a threat."
He added it was important that France evaluate such risks together with its European partners.
"The international community is today very worried, which justifies our determination in the face of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."
Washington on Wednesday stepped up its war rhetoric, with President George W. Bush calling Saddam Hussein a "serious threat" and saying he would take his case against Iraq to the United Nations next week.
De Villepin said "France, the world, cannot accommodate such a risk, and that is why we demand with insistance the return of the UN (weapons) inspectors to Iraq and that the country conforms with the demands of the international community."
If it did, he stressed, it was up to the UN Security Council to decide on any international action.
UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in 1998 in the face of an imminent US and British missile attack on Baghdad, and have since been barred from returning despite insistent UN demands.
France
Iran
Iraq
North
Korea
We would be fighting the fiinks, methinks.
Stay safe; stay armed.
I'm impressed, but I'll bet you can't translate:
"Look, I washed under my arms. With soap!! And used a deodorant."
(Hint--the French don't have actual words for these acts.)
Okay, try this one:
"We will fight until we win or until our last soldier breathes his last breath."
(See hint above.)
All right, I'll give you a shot at the consolation prize:
"We still love Jerry Lewis, even though the steroids made him fat."
Weapons free...coming down!!!
As I tol' ol' President Shoe-Rack when I had'im out t' m'ranch, "Yer either for us or against us." Then we had to have the Secret Service find him a clean pair of jeans.
The State Department are a bunch of pansies no matter who is in the White House.
Colin Powell says "our European allies" one more time, "we're gonna blow a fifty amp fuse".
You mean like Pervez Musharraf, Prince Abdullah, and Hosni Mubarack, our trusted "allies?"
The point is, France doesn't seem to want to use this information, and she doesn't want anyone else to use it either.
And Syria and Tunisia and Ethiopia and Russia.
Syria
Pakistan
France
Iran
Iraq
North
Korea
Tunisia
Ethiopia
Russia
For which we'll use a thermobaric enema.
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Well said, and seconded.
Ding, ding, ding! Game's over folks. We have a winner.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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