[roses of sharon]

I was not aware that the American people lived under Russia, China, or France.

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[11B3]

United Nations=League of Nations

[Hugin]

Ok. They choose to be irrelevant. Russia, don't come crying when that $42 billion contract to develop Iraqi oil fields gets cancelled by the next Iraqi government and goes to American oil companies.

[Torie]

The US revealed at the weekend that it wanted to give the Iraqi leader 30 days to open his borders to weapons inspectors under new, strict conditions, or face a military strike.

Anyone that opposes the above resolution is an aider and abetter of a sociopath intent on trying to gain time to achieve a splashy and catastrophic final exit. I really believe that is Saddam's goal, and the legacy he is intent on leaving us.

[jwalsh07]

As the Frogs say, c'est la vie.

[GirlShortstop]

The United States was last night considering the implications of leading an attack on Iraq without the support of Russia, France and China, after all three rejected a US draft plan for dealing with President Saddam Hussein.

Look at the company they keep:

Iraq defiantly rejected a U.S.-British plan Saturday for the United Nations to force President Saddam Hussein to disarm and open his palaces for weapons searches, warning the Baghdad would stage a fierce defense if the allies attacked.
Iraq Rejects Disarmament Plan

You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists!

[Nam Vet]

Does anyone know how far from Baghdad Saddam's palaces are located? I'm sure quite a few are in the immediate area, but was wondering if any were isolated and could be taken by force and inspected during our initial assault.
If we did find ANYTHING incriminating, the rest of the cowering, socialist world would have to clam up about our actions, whatever they might be from that point on.

Nam Vet

[egarvue]

Heck, lets just evaluate this programatically:

Russia+China+France != United States

Sheesh, you'd think these pitiful countries would understand the cold, hard logic of our utter superiority by now.

[cubreporter]

Russia, China and France? And we should care what they think why?????????????????

[struwwelpeter]

Three big powers? I only counted one and two-thirds.

[polemikos]

Russia, France and China

Not that anymore need be said, but these three have some pretty obvious motives for saying we're wrong.

[dark_lord]

They just want "deal's".

Russia wants the $40B Iraq owes to them.
China wants a free (or more free) hand to deal with Taiwan and their "economic zone".
France wants to keep making money from Iraqi oil and to needle the US.

I think we can give Russia what they want - after an Iraqi occupation, a % of the Iraqi oil sales go to pay off Russia.
France will continue to make money after Iraq is occupied. They will continue to needle us, also.
China is the more problematic issue. We can make them promises...but at what cost?

So, I am sure the State dept. will try to get them all to agree. There is a time frame. If they don't - then screw 'em, the US goes it alone and the UN becomes the League of Nations. They don't want that to happen as the Security Council gives them a forum. So there is pressure on them, also.

[BulletBrasDotNet]

Who cares what these backward cowards think? They were not bombed. We were. They can buzz off.

[MadIvan]

Fine.

Very well, the UK and USA, alone.

Regards, Ivan

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Tell the three big powers to watch this and say the US wrong on Iraq

[aruanan]

Russia, France and China

It's not surprising to see why Russia and China would be opposed to the interests of the U.S.: when the U.S. (and Great Britain) are successful, there will be one less region of the world to draw our attention away from them, one less region of the world for them to sell arms to. If GW's activities with the nations of West Africa are successful, we will have a challenge to China's activities with the Muslims in Africa and will also hurt the market for Russian oil.

As for France: the present French civilization is a fungus growing on the corpse of former glory. And let's not forget to remind the French, when they get all huffy about American cultural imperialism, that were it not for the American root stock sustaining their wine industry, it would long ago, like their empire, have dried up and blown away.

[CyberAnt]

Who cares what they think! Who have they ever rescued anyway??

Besides, we have the UK, Spain, Italy, Australia, and a multitude of smaller countries.

[RebelDawg]

Pardon me, but how exactly is France a "big power"???

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Relevant or Irrelevant.

We have our final answer.