Chirac prepared to join Iraq effort … all President Bush needs to do is askA high-ranking spokesman for Joe Biden claims the Delaware Senator has brokered a secret deal with French President Jacque Chirac to have the fading and militarily inept European power join the US-led effort in Iraq. According to Biden’s office, all President Bush needs to do is ask: "What Chirac indicated was that he was waiting for (President Bush) and the present administration to reach out and lay out a plan that was sensible and had a sense of urgency about it," said Norm Kurz, a spokesman...