[jriemer]

What's France?

[mhking]

"The word is no. I am therefore going anyway."

--Admiral James T. Kirk

[PhiKapMom]

Looks like Blair got doublecrossed by the French in their hint of abstaining. What do the French have to hide in Iraq?

Time to tell the United Nations Security Council to stuff it and if the UN wants money ask France, Germany, Russia, and China.

If we have to go with a coalition of Governments outside the UN, then the UN is worthless and doesn't deserve another red cent from this Country. Use the money for the US to fund our War on Terrorism. At the same time, give them an eviction notice to vacate the United States!

[KC_Conspirator]

I think its seriously time to pull our interests out of France and possibly vacate the UN altogther.

[Dog Gone]

The burden isn't on us to show that the inspections have failed. The burden is on Iraq to disarm and comply.

There's a huge difference there, and one that France knows is totally disingenuous on its part.

Nor will we accept their premise that only the UN can authorize war. We have not surrendered our sovereignty or authority to act in our national interest to a UN committe with veto power.

It's sad that France has.

If they block the NATO decision to send forces to Turkey on Monday, there is a strong chance that NATO will dissolve. Perhaps not immediately, but inevitably.

France is playing an international game of chicken here, in more than one way.

[wizardoz]

"If we don't agree, well then, we won't agree," the aide added. "And that won't be the end of anything..."

Oh, it'll be the end of something, little Mr. Man. Wait and see.

[No Truce With Kings]

Perhaps a more appropriate HQ building for the UN would be the old League of Nations building. Thanks to la belle France, the United Nations is achieving the same level of relevance as the League.

(See -- we should thank the French.)

[conservativecorner]

The frogs don't understand that their veto is not going to matter. The frogs are irrelevant!!

[LibWhacker]

"And that won't be the end of anything, just like de Gaulle's decision to pull out of NATO or his Phnom Penh speech did not mean the end of French-American relations. Those ties have a thick skin."

Cowardly fools still don't get it. I wouldn't be particularly sorry to see us break relations with France over this.

[Snowy]

From where I'm sitting, it appears as if Jacques is strapped...

[blam]

"An unnamed Chirac aide told Le Monde that France was ready to risk serious strains in its relations with pro-war powers United States and Britain to defend its view that only the United Nations has the right to declare a war on Iraq."

Stupid POS!

[goodnesswins]

Who CARES what the Frenchies say?ALLIES FOR LIBERTY & FREEDOM?

THESE ARE the 20 ALLIES for IRAQI FREEDOM

U.S., Britian, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Turkey,

Slovakia, Denmark, Czech, Spain, Quatar, Jordan, Albania, Kuwait, Israeli, Australia and Japan

U.S., British, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Polish, Italy, Portugal,

Slovakia, Denmark, Czech, Spanish, Quatar, Kuwaiti, Israeli, Australian, Albanian and Japanese

FREE the IRAQI women & children!!! GRAPHICAL VERSION: WHO has joined the ALLIES FOR LIBERTY & FREEDOM?

THESE ARE the 26 ALLIES for IRAQI people’s (women & children included) FREEDOM

U.S., Britian, Australia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, Lithuania

Slovakia, Denmark, Czech Republic, Spain, Quatar, Jordan, Albania, Kuwait, Israel, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Macedonia, Croatia, and Japan

FREE the IRAQI people!!!

	What OTHER countries want the IRAQI citizens FREEDOM?
	UK	AUSTRALIA
	ISRAEL	POLAND
SPAIN	CZECH	PORTUGAL
KUWAIT	HUNGARY	QATAR
ITALY	JAPAN	JORDAN
DENMARK	SLOVAKIA	TURKEY
ESTONIA	LATVIA	LITHUANIA
MACEDONIA	SLOVENIA	ALBANIA
CROATIA	BULGARIA
goodnesswins

[bushfamfan]

This is interesting and I don't see valid reasons for France to have agreed to the Security Council resolution. France is completely out of line because they agreed to the resolution, but they're trying to play games figuring they can do this to the United States because we aren't Iraq. I believe France is concerned with its dealings with Iraq coming to the fore when war happens and Iraq's secrets are revealed. Why doesn't France just admit they find it acceptable for Saddam Hussein to have weapons of mass destruction and continue on with the programs. The French are just sick and we've got to show them they are betraying our country and putting the security of the world at risk due to their OWN GREED and refusal to deal with Iraq and letting Iraq continue on. They are the problem too. We should dig up every American serviceman on French soild, it is a disgrace. That country is a disgrace and we should never offer assistance to them in their own times of national security because they show repeated nonconcern for our own.

[Servant of the Nine]

First Baghdad, then Paris.

Big Food wants the truffle fields siezed to provide a cheap Perigeaux Sauce precursor.

So9

[tractorman]

France; The only country to have a monument for each one of its defeats.

[arm958]

It must truly suck to be an irrelevant, has-been, self-serving, corrupt, decadent country. I can't wait to find out the extent of French "cooperation" with Iraq after we go in and turn on the spotlight of truth.

[KellyAdmirer]

France does not seem to understand the logistical realities of an invasion, doing it while forces are available and in position, before the summer heat, and so forth. They are playing right into Iraq's hands, Iraq knowing full well that if it can only delay things a couple months it probably won't be invaded at all until next year and that the expense and strain of the US keeping forces that long will make the whole project collapse. At which point, France can puff itself up as the big defender of peace, Hussein can keep building up his WMD stockpile and become the leader of anti-American sentiment, and the US can just go crawl under a rock for all the influence it will have in global affairs.

[JeeperFreeper]

On a another post, a FReeper by the name of Mr. B, succintly identified France's reason for not supporting disarming Hussein. He said that much of the Iraqi war material (WMD) will have "Made in France" labels.

[HumanaeVitae]

"If the question were put today, France would say no to a resolution authorising the use of force,"

Apparently the only country the France won't surrender to is the one resposible for it's existence.

[ThinkDifferent]

I hope they do veto. We'll attack anyway along with our real allies, and thereby clearly demonstrate the UN's irrelevance.