Looks like france is doing some whining because the Brits came
out and told it like it is. :D :D :D :D



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030319/wl_nm/iraq_france_britain_dc_1





France Hits Back at British Charges Over Iraq
Wed Mar 19, 5:29 AM ET Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo!



PARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said on Wednesday he was "shocked and saddened" by remarks by British officials suggesting France had wrecked a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Iraq (news - web sites).



Villepin urged his British counterpart Jack Straw to reject in the strongest terms any suggestion France was to blame for the failure of efforts by the United Nations (news - web sites) to convince Iraq to disarm through peaceful means.


"We fully understand the internal pressure which is being put on the British government, but these comments are not worthy of a country which is a friend and a European partner," he said, according to a diplomatic source.


"This presentation of the facts does not match the reality and does not fool anyone."


British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) castigated French leaders on Tuesday for what he called their misguided and profoundly dangerous stand that ultimately benefited Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).


"There is resentment of U.S. predominance. There is fear of U.S. unilateralism...I know all of this. But the way to deal with it is not rivalry but partnership," he told parliament during a heated debate on his controversial support for war.


Straw and other members of the Blair government have also made no secret of their anger at France's dogged opposition.


"The French authorities were shocked and saddened by the remarks made by members of the British government," Villepin said.


French President Jacques Chirac, the strongest anti-war voice in the West, announced last week he would veto any resolution in the U.N. Security Council that gave the green light to military action in Iraq.


Straw noted in public that Chirac rejected last-minute British proposals for a Security Council resolution even before Saddam Hussein did.

anybody checked the value of a EURO latley?

ten buck says its worthless in 5 years.

the EU is fawked.

Originally posted by SanDiegoCJ
French President Jacques Chirac, the strongest anti-war voice in the West, announced last week he would veto any resolution in the U.N. Security Council that gave the green light to military action in Iraq.


This is the part that sets France in the crapper.


It is one thing to not be for it "now", or wanting more proof, etc. I can understand that.


But to vow to veto ANY recolution bringing about miliary action - shows they are refusing FACTS and just relying on their own decision no matter what.

I'm willing to bet that it will be discovred that France had been supplying Iraq with prohibited materials. AFTER the 1441 decision, after the Gulf war.

I'm betting that's why they didn't want anyone in there.

Originally posted by Travis Waldher
I'm willing to bet that it will be discovred that France had been supplying Iraq with prohibited materials. AFTER the 1441 decision, after the Gulf war.

I'm betting that's why they didn't want anyone in there.



That, and the fact that France has been selling Iraq almost
anything and everything for years. Most of the military equip-
ment Iraq has is French or Russian. That should tell you something.

Originally posted by Travis Waldher
I'm willing to bet that it will be discovred that France had been supplying Iraq with prohibited materials. AFTER the 1441 decision, after the Gulf war.

I'm betting that's why they didn't want anyone in there.

I thought that this had already been established?

Originally posted by SanDiegoCJ




That, and the fact that France has been selling Iraq almost
anything and everything for years. Most of the military equip-
ment Iraq has is French or Russian. That should tell you something.



gawd I love this board:D there was a link here just not long ago that had a picture of a young Saddam IN FRANCE, negotiating/buying Nuclear reactor stuff (that the Israelis bombed the snot out of, just before it was built) :D

Originally posted by UZI 9mm




gawd I love this board:D there was a link here just not long ago that had a picture of a young Saddam IN FRANCE, negotiating/buying Nuclear reactor stuff (that the Israelis bombed the snot out of, just before it was built) :D


There was an hour long show on History Channel recently
about Iraqs nuclear program and they showed video of
Saddam and Chirac together smiling and laughing when Saddam
was buying that reactor from France.