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Straw takes war to the French in vitriolic United Nations tirade
The Daily Telegraph ^ | March 8, 2003 | Marcus Warren and Robin Gedye

Posted on 03/07/2003 5:45:49 PM PST by MadIvan

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To: Dog Gone
Missed your post. You haven't missed any of the countries you mentioned. You did miss the smug thug from Germany.
21 posted on 03/07/2003 5:58:34 PM PST by BCrago66
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To: BCrago66
I don't have cable, dammit!!!

Thanks for the heads up anyway...
22 posted on 03/07/2003 5:59:43 PM PST by TheSpottedOwl (Why are all the streets in France lined with trees? So the German army can march in the shade!)
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To: TheSpottedOwl
Do you have DSL - then you can watch the video from
C-Span.com. Even if you just have 56K connection, you can get the audio, but it might break up occasionally.
23 posted on 03/07/2003 6:01:27 PM PST by BCrago66
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To: MadIvan
A standing ovation to Mr. Straw. I would have loved to see Villipin "sitting and taking it" and his "rage".

Priceless.

Prairie
24 posted on 03/07/2003 6:03:06 PM PST by prairiebreeze (One, two, three, dip, two, three. No Blixie, we've decided we don't want to dance with you anymore!)
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To: MadIvan
Straw's speech was masterful.
And if I heard correctly, didn't he receive applause when he finished speaking?
25 posted on 03/07/2003 6:03:36 PM PST by jigsaw
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To: swampfox98
Sadly, I think we are doomed to get Clinton though.

I thought citizens of countries belonging to the "permanent five" of the Security Council cannot be Secretary General. Oh, wait, this is the U.N. we're talking about. They'll just change the rules.

26 posted on 03/07/2003 6:03:56 PM PST by brewcrew (It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. - Jonathan Swift)
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To: Dog Gone
I believe Syria was the 2nd to speak after the reports were given. If Syria is speaking now, it is just beginning.
27 posted on 03/07/2003 6:04:49 PM PST by Green
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To: Miss Marple; MadIvan
"Unexpected heroes emerge. God bless Jack Straw, it was indeed, his finest hour."

Miss Marple, all I can say is: ~~"Mega, mega dittos!"

And a great big, soul-felt "thank you" to a great ally and true friend--the Brits!

28 posted on 03/07/2003 6:07:20 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia (May God bless President Bush and our troops)
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To: Green; BCrago66
Great. Thanks! Fischer had just quit and Syria is about 8 minutes into it.

I'll either commandeer the nice TV or run to a backup shortly.

29 posted on 03/07/2003 6:07:50 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: MadIvan
Ivan, any idea at all if the British troops will have to pull out if the new resolution is vetoed?
30 posted on 03/07/2003 6:09:01 PM PST by Calpernia
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To: MadIvan
"The strong outside pressure is, and let's be blunt about this, the presence of over 200,000 US and UK young men and young women willing to put their lives on the line for the sake of this body the United Nations."

I've heard great things about Mr. Straw's performance today, and I salute him for cutting loose on the appeasers of mass-murderers and terrorists.

He is certainly correct in his assertion that the only thing that has caused this pathetic little bit of movement is the presence of American and British forces; which are very close to being prepared to wipe Hussein and his regime from the face of the planet.

But if he thinks a single American is there 'for the sake of the United Nations', he has spent far too much time in the confines of the globalist's ivory towers.

Every conservative Republican I know---and I know alot of them---will henceforth meet every dollar spent on the U.N. by the US taxpayer with bloody screams and recriminations against any politician stupid enough to vote for it.

Average Americans didn't like it before, but it is a new day. We hate their guts.

That's reality---and the idiotic fools have no one to blame but themselves.

31 posted on 03/07/2003 6:09:26 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: MizSterious
It was an absolute masterpiece. I will check around and see if any of the usual places I get transcripts from has it.
32 posted on 03/07/2003 6:10:01 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: MadIvan
I saw clip of this speech on FNC. It was an absolute delight to watch.
33 posted on 03/07/2003 6:10:05 PM PST by Iowa Granny
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To: TheSpottedOwl
Here is a link .. you can watch online

http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS
34 posted on 03/07/2003 6:10:33 PM PST by Mo1 (RALLY FOR AMERICA - VALLEY FORGE,PA MARCH 16, 2003 1:00 PM)
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To: MadIvan
I saw Straw today. He was brilliant.

He deserves to be invited down to Crawford for an old fashioned cook out..........

Texas style!!!!!!!!!!!!

35 posted on 03/07/2003 6:11:01 PM PST by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
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To: MadIvan
HIP HIP...
36 posted on 03/07/2003 6:11:06 PM PST by VaBthang4 (Could someone show me one [1] Loserdopian elected to the federal government?)
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To: MadIvan
If it's at all possible, the French are worse than the Iraqis. At least Hussein is straightforward in his contempt and disdain for us. The French are simply traitorous, backstabbing scum.
37 posted on 03/07/2003 6:11:22 PM PST by Mister Magoo
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To: MadIvan
'The presence of "young men willing to put their lives on the line for this body, the UN", was the key factor in compelling Saddam to make concessions, not diplomacy, he said. '

Amen!! I have got to see the repeat of this on C-Span!!! Tell me when!!

38 posted on 03/07/2003 6:11:23 PM PST by AgThorn
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To: MadIvan
Past Calais it's all wogs.
39 posted on 03/07/2003 6:13:01 PM PST by Jim Noble
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To: Calpernia
Ivan, any idea at all if the British troops will have to pull out if the new resolution is vetoed?

Blair has already made it clear, we're going, with or without the UN.

As he said, "With you at the first, with you to the last."

Regards, Ivan

40 posted on 03/07/2003 6:13:12 PM PST by MadIvan (Learn the power of the Dark Side, www.thedarkside.net)
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