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If Chirac believes this then why did he sell Saddam a nuclear reactor. (more nuclear materials found last hour at site where the inspectors inspected lol)(most probly in a tunnel complex build by french, german, and russian engineers)

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Chirac hails end of Iraqi dictatorship
Thu Apr 10, 6:32 AM ET Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo!

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PARIS (AFP) - French President Jacques Chirac hailed the fall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s government in Iraq (news - web sites) and said he hoped the fighting in the country would end soon, his office announced.

"France, like all democracies, is delighted at the fall of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and hopes for a quick and effective end to the fighting," Chirac's office said in a statement.


"It is now necessary to create the conditions which will give the Iraqi people its dignity in re-discovered freedom.


"What is urgent is to allow humanitarian aid in all its forms to be sent to Iraq without delay. As soon as possible, after the necessary phase of ensuring security, Iraq must re-discover -- via the legitimacy granted by the United Nations (news - web sites) -- its full sovereignty in a stabilised region," it said.


France led the group of nations opposed to the US-led invasion of Iraq and was criticised subsequently for not stating unequivocally that it wanted an allied victory. It is now pressing for a central role for the UN in post-war reconstruction.


On Wednesday evening Chirac spoke to British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), who shares his enthusiasm for UN involvement despite the misgivings of many in the US administration.


Chirac travels to Saint Petersberg Friday for talks with Russian President Vladmir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Russia and Germany formed a bloc with France to oppose the war at the UN.


"With the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein, it is a dark page that is turned and we are delighted," said Chirac's foreign minister and close ally Dominique de Villepin at a meeting of EU and Arab ministers in southern France.

I read this article about an hour ago. I kept thinking about chameleons the whole time to.....

1. Don't look conspicuous; it draws fire.
2. Never draw fire; it irritates everyone around you.

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Every time I hear the U.N. and France whining about having a role in the rebuilding of Iraq I get this mental image or Colin Powell adressing the U.N. with "If you really want to help with the rebuilding of Iraq, there are a couple of truckloads of brooms outside, with buses waiting to take you to a 747 we've chartered that's sitting at Kennendy. You've seen the pictures on the news...there's plenty of streets over there that need swept."

Ted

Boring the world, one post at a time.

The slimeballs only want to capitalise on one thing. Making money in rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure. Personally since the U.S. Taxpayers payed the price for the toppleing of Saddam, also add in the sacrifice and combat endured by our fighting men and women. I feel only the Coalition countries should be allowed to rebuild Iraq.

What did France do to assist in the removal of the saddam regime.

1. They defied U.N. Sanctions
a. Sold Surface to air technology.
b. built Nuclear reactors
c. Smuggled vital supplies and textiles to Saddams personal intrests.

I say make the Frogs eat crow and their economy should suffer.

I think France, Germany and Russia having a roll in rebuilding is a resonable idea. After they reimburse us for the cost of the war and pays the familys of the fallen American and British soldiers a "resonable" death benefit. Yep, as soon as that check clears we'll call ya...

All the way...

Actually heard a congressmen say the first step France should make in rebuilding Iraq is forgive any debt the Iraqi goverment owes them. Let's see if it really happens. I doubt it though.

Fender

Don't tell me what you think, what does the T.O. say.

I think the below noted tactics should be employed world wide by US Forces. JKA

POETIC JUSTICE

Another lesson learned the hard way! One of the many headaches that George W. Bush inherited from his predecessor was the Puerto Rican Island of Vieques. In the waning years of the Clinton administration, protesters demanded that the U.S. Navy abandon bombing and naval gun fire exercises that had taken place on the largely uninhabited island for nearly seventy years. It became a leftist cause. Liberal icons bumped into one another to fly to Puerto Rico, boat over to the island, trespass (but never on a day that there was an exercise scheduled) and get arrested for the benefit of the New York Times or Newsweek. They included the Reverend Al Sharpton, Mrs.Jesse Jackson, Joan Baez, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Edward Olomos, Michael Moore and Ramsey Clark, to name a few. Hillary Clinton, then running for the U.S. Senate in New York, chastised the U.S. Navy for not bowing to the “will of the citizens of Puerto Rico”, until her husband, a week before the election, issued an executive order to phase out the facility by 2003, despite recommendations to the contrary by his own Secretary of Defense and the Chief of Naval Operations.

In 2002, the bombing exercises were transferred to an Air Force bombing
range in central Florida, not far from the Jacksonville and Pensacola
Naval Air Stations. In January, many of the protesters were back in Puerto Rico, celebrating the final bombing exercise on Vieques and waving Puerto Rican flags and placards that read "U.S. Navy, get out of Puerto Rico."

On February 21, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced that the
U.S. Navy will close the Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station in Puerto Rico in 2004, eliminating 1200 civilian jobs as well as 700 military positions. This naval facility is estimated to have put nearly $300 million annually into the local economy.

The next day a stunned Governor Sila Calderon, held a news conference in San Juan, protesting the base closure as a serious blow to Commonwealth's fragile economy. The governor stated "The people of Puerto Rico don't now or never did have an interest in closing the Vieques bombing range or the Roosevelt Roads naval base. My government is interested in both staying in Puerto Rico."

When asked, Admiral Robert J. Natter, Commander-on Chief, Western Atlantic Command, said, "Without Vieques, I see no further need for the facility at Roosevelt Roads. None."

So, Yanqui go home? Fine. But we'll take our dollars with us. Hasta la
Vista . . . baby!

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Also on February 21, the Secretary of Defense announced that starting this year, the U.S. European Command would begin moving most if not all of its active combat and support units from bases in Germany to others being established in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Turkey "to better position them for rapid deployment to likely hot spots in those parts of the world."

Immediately the business and government leaders in the German states of
Hesse, Rhineland and Wurttemburg, protested the loss of nearly $6 billion in revenue each year from the bases and manpower to be displaced. A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry speculated that the move may be "what the Americans call 'payback' for the actions of this government in opposing military action in Iraq."

Does anyone know the German translation for "Hasta la vista . . . baby?"


"Do the MATH"

gotta love rummy he doesn't take s777.

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Immediately the business and government leaders in the German states of
Hesse, Rhineland and Wurttemburg, protested the loss of nearly $6 billion in revenue each year from the bases and manpower to be displaced. A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry speculated that the move may be "what the Americans call 'payback' for the actions of this government in opposing military action in Iraq."

Does anyone know the German translation for "Hasta la vista . . . baby?"


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The government leaders of Hessen and Baden-Würtemberg are NOT supporting the politics of our chancellor Schröder. These states are lead by the opposition.
But since the latest polls in Germany say that only 17% of the Germans support the US, "payback" is the right decision. I´m sorry.

The german synchronization (is that the correct word?)of Terminator 2 doesn´t translate "Hasta la vista....baby!" So everybody here should know what it means. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Hey, but to make the last one understand I would say "Auf nimmer-wiedersehen...KRAUTS!" <img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>












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