[Dog Gone]

I don't think a resolution will be formally introduced if the French would veto it.

I could be wrong. Blair might be willing to introduce one if he could get majority support for it, even though France would veto. That might be better politically for him than to have no vote at all.

[txradioguy]

I think if we end up liberating Iraq without the meaningless blessing of the U.N. (which I believe is what will happen). Then the day the announcement of the continuation of hostilities with Iraq is announced, a courrier should arrive at Mr. Annan's office on the 38th Floor at the U.N. presnting the useless group he leads with an eviction notice! Let the U.N. relocate to Paris!

[Cicero]

In a crisis like this, politicians change their tactics day by day. But I think Blair's last word is that another UN resolution is not needed. I don't see how anyone would benefit from introducing another resolution if France and Germany plan to veto it.

Meantime, this threat by Chirac is no joke. It will make France cordially hated throughout Eastern and Central Europe. Germany needed France as a counterweight to the suspicion that they were accomplishing by politics a takeover of Europe which they failed to accomplish by war. But does Germany need France badly enough to jump off a cliff with her?

It may very well end up with France isolated from everyone but, maybe, the Chinese. Sort of like Romania in the Ceaucescu days. Russia won't stick by them after this moment of convenience passes.