[winner3000]

"We have a common goal: disarmament of Iraq"

This French guy really likes insulting our intelligence. Reminds me of Villepin telling Lauer how worried the French are about our boys getting killed!

The whole problem is that we know that the French goal is to protect Saddam, and not to disarm him. For those who are defending France, we are not mad because we assume they should help us just because we helped them in the past. The fact is they stabbed us in the back. They drove a hard bargain in the wording of resolution 1441. Now all we're trying to do is to enforce what they themselves voted for. Now they're saying that 1441 is not worth the paper it's written in. This is one of the most dishonorable things I have seen in diplomacy in a long time. I respect Germany a heck of a lot. They never pretended to go along. They were clear from the beginning.

[Spruce]

All of the SC members knew this day would come. Their vote on the last resolution is moot regarding whether Public Law 107-243 is executed.

The inexplicable behavior of France is what this vote is about.