Straw takes war to the French in vitriolic United Nations tirade

The Daily Telegraph ^ | March 8, 2003 | Marcus Warren and Robin Gedye

[CaliforniaOkie]

#174, yes I also saw that Greta show with Bill Gertz. The frogs are trying to cover up all their dirty dealing with Saddam.

[redhead]

Thanks for this Ivan. I'm getting more and more PROUD of my DEEP roots in Britain. (The ancestral pile is Hurstmonceaux!)

[montag813]

This is Straw's finest hour. Message to the French: your lying, obfuscations and cynicism is not going to work anymore. We've kicked your arse for nearly a thousand years - a diplomatic skirmish like this is nothing in comparison. You will lose, and look more the fools for losing.

That's all well and good. So why the March 17 deadline? To give the Marxist forces even more time to mobilize against his fragile government?

[paul51]

You didnt go far enough

Thanks. Already received a response from the houses (auto response but none the less). Still waiting for responses from my USA hating senator for emails I've sent months ago.

[CaliforniaOkie]

It was during WW1 that the French ladies introduced American soldiers to veneral disease. What pigs you are.

[tutstar]

You tell 'em Ivan!

[Cathryn Crawford]

I know. I got the same chills and goosebumps. I've always liked Straw, but he was incredible yesterday....

[Miss Marple]

Looking up St. Patrick (his day is March 17) I find that he is also the patron saint of Nigeria, engineers, and excluded people.

[mickie]

Bill Gertz really has the inside sources.
Never miss his articles in the Washington Times Weekly.
(btw.....this paper is the only one I read)

[Constitution Day]

Statement by the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to the Security Council, 7 March 2003

This is only the text, of course.
I wish you had seen the speech on C-SPAN.

[swampfox98]

Let Clinton take over the dead hag. Can you imagine how history will note that? "Bill Clinton led a now-emasculated UN in its final days." What could be better for a man who only cares about how history will judge him.

That sounds good however, I don't believe the US will ever abandon the UN, and furthermore, I believe the US will continue to pay the bills for this terriorst loving body. They can kick us in the teeth all they want but Colin Powell, as long as he is in the Bush administration, will honor the UN.