Yeah right. And someday, you will even be able to explain why British intelligence cannot provide better than an academic paper written in 1991 to assert Iraq's current WMDs, and why they also have, along with the US, to provide El Baradei with fake (uh, sorry, "not authentic") documents.
This whole think is really turning into a contest of ridicule.
Listen to me very carefully: it is time for your country to take a massive dose of shut the hell up. For weeks now your nation has been trying to weasel out of doing the right thing; claiming higher morality, claiming purer motives, looking down your snobby noses at the British and Americans in the process.
Get the message and get a bloody clue: SHUT UP. We are going into battle shortly to get rid of this dictator, with or without your approval, which we should never need in the first place. You neither have the power, nor the righteousness to stop it. The least you can do is maintain a dignified silence as the serious nations of the world go into battle once again to make it safe for you to be the pretentious, egotistical blighters that you are.
Again I say, SHUT UP. Tell Chirac to put a sock in it. Tell de Villepin to put some duct tape over his mouth. Tell your Socialist Party to take a collective dose of silence. We are sick of you, your country, and all that it does.
If we do find that Saddam's newest weapons do have "Made in France" stamped on them, and indeed that the Washington Times is right, and French companies have been supplying him with replacement parts in spite of the embargo, then vengeance will shortly follow. Not military vengeance, but the vengeance of your country being in a state of perpetual disgrace will bring.
One final thing: get your troops the hell out of Ivory Coast. I don't recall you going to the UN for approval for that military action, mate.
Ivan
And a ridiculous one at that. Never did explain why a rocket would need to have fuselages with mirror-smooth surfaces on the INSIDE and tolerance requirements in excess of any manufactured rocket- if it was merely trying to "improve the performance" on a "reverse engineered" prototype of what is a supposed to be a cheap, disposable weapons system. Nor did he explain why they would want to order so many tubes if the design was still in its infancy and not ready for the manufacturing stage.
And what's that we hear about the drone Blix forgot to mention while he was kissing Chirac's arse yesterday?
Gee, wonder why he didn't mention any of the interesting stuff on camera, but saw fit instead to bury it inside his report? HE might not be too smart but it looks like he's learning a lot from the Iraqis!