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Friday, March 21, 2003
posted by gbarto at 10:04 AM:
Non, Non and Still NonChirac pre-vetoes U.N. resolution for administration of post-war Iraq
Chirac is doing his damnedest to delegitimize us and this operation. But if the Iraqi people seem happy with the result, it's going to be a lot harder to portray us as menaces to all that is good. And if he makes the UN hostile enough to our aims that we have to do the reconstruction "alone" with our compadres in this, then France can forget about the TotalFinaElf deals, etc.
Forgive me for expressing the sentiment, but is Jacques Chirac jeopardizing France's national interests for a generation in service of a delusion that he is the reincarnation of Charles de Gaulle? And how will the French feel when they realize this?
update: I read at Instapundit that there's also been some tension at the European summit and that the scuffling between Chirac and Blair has been getting pretty nasty. Nasty enough that England is highlighting the figures for French and German trade with Iraq and noting that England's understanding of the sanctions policies would have pretty much shot to hell and hope of getting that much. Of course Germany and France, with their violations, were cravenly propping up the Iraq regime, even if - a big if they weren't providing weapons.
So rather than "Axis of Weasel," we should be calling them the "Handmaidens of Evil".
Or is that hyperbole?
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