France Will Fight (developing story)

Fox News | March 18, 2003

[cmsgop]

No Thanks Pussies!

[NavyCaptain]

Don't want them, won't ask them, won't need them and most of all, won't let them!

[Petronski]

Reported earlier. France wants us to be their mineshaft canaries. "You go ahead, Yankee, find out what it's like."

In other words, Lucky Pierre's Got your Back!

[hotpotato]

I'm trying to locate a link/source to the story. This was just reported on Cavuto.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[tiamat]

Snort.

I have a rope. The froggies can go pee up it.

Opportunistic hypocrites!

Tia

(vexed that this has taken so long!)

[Joe Boucher]

We don't have to accept them do we? Remember that in Nam a lot of officers were shot by their own troops for being a-holes. Can't imagine the loss totals of french soldiers by friendly fire. But I can hope.

[new cruelty]

"***France Says If Iraq Uses WMD Their Policy Will Change***

CNN | Stardate: 0303.18

Posted on 03/18/2003 10:32 AM EST by The Wizard

just announced"

[Diogenesis]

Of course France is in.

WAKE UP. FRANCE ALREADY SHARES NUCLEAR AND SAT/SIGINT DATA WITH IRAQ.

AXIS OF EVIL UPDATE, N'EST PAS

In Beit Hanoun, north Gaza, Palestinian terrorists wave French and German flags
and Saddam Hussein's portrait as the Axis of Evil fully declares itself
the enemies of America.
This was one day after President Bush offered the Palestinians a state, only yesterday.

[Hootch]

Don't let the French anywhere near Iraq!! All they want to do now is destroy the evidence that they have been collaborating with Iraq for the past 12 years.

[browardchad]

France is not offering assistance in the war -- they want to help rebuild Iraq: that is, they want a piece of the reconstruction pie after we do the heavy lifting.

[GSWarrior]

I'm recalling a Star Trek TNG episode where Picard was held captive with three members of different species, one of whom refused to even consider escaping because it would be to risky, safer to sit and do nothing.

[hotpotato]

Here it is:


ARIS (Reuters) - France said
Tuesday it could help a U.S.-led
military coalition if Iraq used
biological or chemical weapons,
despite blasting Washington's war
ultimatum to Baghdad as
unjustified.

The Foreign Ministry said in a short statement there was no
change in France's anti-war stance, but added:

"In the event that American forces or those allied to them
should face a new situation such as a chemical or biological
attack, France would assess the measures of assistance to take
in a spirit of friendship and solidarity."

Earlier, President Jacques Chirac made no mention of such
an option in a televised address. He denounced Washington's
war ultimatum to Iraq as unjustified and warned it put world
stability and the future of the Middle East at stake.

Chirac, the strongest anti-war voice in the West, insisted
world opinion was against war and argued the United States'
unilateral approach could exacerbate future crises.

"Whether it concerns the necessary disarmament of Iraq or
the desirable change of the regime in this country, there is no
justification for a unilateral decision to resort to force," Chirac
said in a short address.

"No matter how events evolve now, this ultimatum
challenges our view of international relations. It puts the
future of a people, the future of a region and world stability
at stake," he said in his first reaction to Bush's ultimatum.

The Foreign Ministry statement came after France's
ambassador to the United States, Jean-David Levitte, earlier
told CNN the use of chemical and biological weapons by Iraq
would "change the situation completely and immediately for
the French government."

Levitte said a decision on any French participation in the war would be made by
Chirac in such an event.

"We have equipment to fight in these circumstances," he said, not giving details on
any possible French role.

WAR NO ANSWER TO SEPT. 11

Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin joined Chirac's salvo against pending military
action, stressing that while Paris remained a staunch U.S. ally it viewed war as the
wrong response to the Sept. 11 attacks and the global fight against terror.

"For us, this war is not the right response to the attacks of September 11, over
which we shared the sense of repulsion and united in solidarity," Raffarin told
parliament, adding France remained an ally of Washington despite the disagreement.

"It is dangerous to engage unilaterally these days...What is needed is the unity of the
international community," he said.

Despite the likelihood of war, a spokesman for Foreign Minister Dominique de
Villepin said the minister would still probably fly to New York to attend a scheduled
U.N. Security Council discussion on Wednesday on disarming Iraq.

The imminence of military action was underlined on Tuesday when witnesses said
French diplomatic workers left Baghdad in a car convoy headed for the Jordanian
capital, Amman.

Throughout the Iraq crisis, France has consistently argued it opposed Washington's
war plans not out of anti-Americanism but from a conviction that the United
Nations was the only body authorized to order an attack on a sovereign country.

Now that its veto threat has blocked a Security Council vote and forced the United
States and Britain to wage war without a U.N. mandate, France can be expected to
stress the central role it sees for U.N. humanitarian aid and reconstruction efforts in
an Iraq controlled by the U.S. military, diplomats said.

In an apparent reference to North Korea, which has expelled U.N. nuclear
inspectors and reactivated atomic facilities that could reprocess plutonium for
bombs, Chirac added:

"This is also a decision that compromises in the future the methods of peaceful
resolution of crises linked to the proliferation of arms of mass destruction."

[TheSpottedOwl]

We don't have to accept them do we? Remember that in Nam a lot of officers were shot by their own troops for being a-holes. Can't imagine the loss totals of french soldiers by friendly fire. But I can hope.

I asked this question on another thread. Didn't the French occupy Viet Nam right before we got there? Didn't they run when things got out of control? I can't remember, but think about the implications of that.

[expatpat]

Let them empty latrines!

[NativeNewYorker]

Since they say'll they'll only go in if WMDs are used, and we know they're buddy-buddy with the Iraqi biggies, I suspect WMDs are now MORE likely to be used, as a lever to get the French back in.

[TBP]

Who wants them? They wouldn't even fight when they were invaded.

How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?
No one knows; it's never been tried.

The French are looking at a enw national flag. It's a white cross on a white field.

Why don't they have civil disobedience in France?
Because when you lie down in teh streets they think you surrendered.

Why is the Champs Elysees lined with trees?
So the Germans can march in the shade.

We want these people to fight with us? Non, merci.

Alan Jay Lerner (through Professor Henry Higgins) was right about them: "The French don't care what they do, actually, as long as they pronounce it properly."

[new cruelty]

Lets try that again...

***France Says If Iraq Uses WMD Their Policy Will Change***

CNN | Stardate: 0303.18

Posted on 03/18/2003 10:32 AM EST by The Wizard

just announced