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Dear Vote.com Voter,
Dick Morris will appear on the O'Reilly Factor
Show on the Fox News
Channel tonight at 8 PM and 11 PM EST.
He recently returned from a trip to Paris where he
addressed the French
Council on Foreign Relations. He will discuss his
speech and why France is
behaving as it is.
Here's a partial text of Dick's remarks in which
he excoriates France for
its "national amnesia" in forgetting the debt it
owes us.
Thanks,
Vote.com
P. S. Please be sure to log onto www.vote.com and
vote on today's question:
"Should The United States Boycott French Products?"
and please forward this
to your friends and family too!
FRANCE: FROM GREAT TO INGRATE
By Dick Morris
(On Friday, March 7, I addressed the French
Council on Foreign Relations.
Here is a partial text of my remarks)
France is suffering from a collective, national
amnesia. You have allied
yourselves with a nation that invaded you twice and
another that threatened
you for half a century against the two countries
that saved you.
What are we asking of you? Not your troops, not
your children, not your
money, not your bases, not even for overflight of
your territory. We are
asking only for you to get out of the way and let us
do our job to help us,
help you, and help all of humanity.
You say that inspections are working. Yet you
concede that they are only
having a limited impact because 200,000 US and
British troops are over the
border in Kuwait. You say give the inspections more
time. How long are we
supposed to keep our Army on alert there? Will you
pay for it? Will you
even contribute to the enormous financial cost? And
what of their morale
and combat readiness? How long can we keep them
there to give your
inspectors time?
Is there anybody here who truly believes that if
we let Saddam disarm on
his own - assuming he would which he won't - and we
send our troops home
that he will not throw out the inspectors as he did
before and that he will
again reacquire the arms he says he'll destroy? Do
any of you doubt that we
would be back here within five years having the same
discussion?
You do not realize how shattered the American
people were by 9-11. You do
not grasp the magnitude of the threat under which we
feel we now live. Your
national experience has been so much more brutal.
You were occupied by the
Germans. You lost one-quarter of your young men in
World War I. But we
have not had a comparable past. To us, the loss of
3,100 men and women and
the ongoing threat of random terror attacks has left
us with a searing case
of national angst.
We look around for the allies who we have helped
in their past. We look
France who we saved in two wars and protected from
the Soviets. We look for
Germany where our sentinels stood guard and whose
capital city we supplied
from the air two years after it was the headquarters
of our enemy. But we
feel abandoned. We feel deserted. Our diplomats will
forget and forgive.
Our State Department will move onto new objectives.
But our people will not
forget your abandonment. It will be at least
another generation before you
can count on the friendship of the American people.
You have alienated us
beyond redemption.
And what are you doing to the United Nations? If
France vetoes this
resolution, or if the states of the Security Council
reject it, we will
never ask the U. N. for permission again. The
Security Council will become
as discredited as the General Assembly, the body which designated Iraq in
charge of the Human Rights Committee and Libya in
charge of disarmament.
Who would ever think of asking the General Assembly?
In the future who
would ever ask the Security Council.
Your vote is only important because of your veto.
But, use it here and it
will be the last time you ever do because we will
never again subject our
vital national interests to your caveat.
You ask why the Democrats don't speak up against
the war. Because they
are not suicidal. Well, maybe they are but not
about this. The vast, vast,
vast majority of Americans support Bush on Iraq and
recognize that we must
do what we must do.
You wonder whether there will be patience in the
US for a long war or high
casualties. If will only be long or deadly if Saddam
uses the weapons of
mass destruction you maintain he doesn't have. And
should he use those
weapons against our troops or against Israel, that
will become its own
motivation for us. We would fight forever to depose
the leader who ordered
our troops gassed.
President Bush is fighting to ban terrorism from
the tools of war, just as
poison gas and nuclear weapons were, in effect
banned. Hitler didn't even
' use poison gas on the battlefield. Only Saddam has
done that. The Soviets
lost in Afghanistan rather than use nuclear weapons.
We Americans know
that if Bush patiently goes country by country, he
will consign the random
killing of civilians as an instrument of conflict to
a similar fate.
We ask for only one thing and we ask it in the
name of those who lie
buried at Normandy and in dozens of other French
military cemeteries - let
us do our job.
Dear Vote.com Voter,
Dick Morris will appear on the O'Reilly Factor
Show on the Fox News
Channel tonight at 8 PM and 11 PM EST.
He recently returned from a trip to Paris where he
addressed the French
Council on Foreign Relations. He will discuss his
speech and why France is
behaving as it is.
Here's a partial text of Dick's remarks in which
he excoriates France for
its "national amnesia" in forgetting the debt it
owes us.
Thanks,
Vote.com
P. S. Please be sure to log onto www.vote.com and
vote on today's question:
"Should The United States Boycott French Products?"
and please forward this
to your friends and family too!
FRANCE: FROM GREAT TO INGRATE
By Dick Morris
(On Friday, March 7, I addressed the French
Council on Foreign Relations.
Here is a partial text of my remarks)
France is suffering from a collective, national
amnesia. You have allied
yourselves with a nation that invaded you twice and
another that threatened
you for half a century against the two countries
that saved you.
What are we asking of you? Not your troops, not
your children, not your
money, not your bases, not even for overflight of
your territory. We are
asking only for you to get out of the way and let us
do our job to help us,
help you, and help all of humanity.
You say that inspections are working. Yet you
concede that they are only
having a limited impact because 200,000 US and
British troops are over the
border in Kuwait. You say give the inspections more
time. How long are we
supposed to keep our Army on alert there? Will you
pay for it? Will you
even contribute to the enormous financial cost? And
what of their morale
and combat readiness? How long can we keep them
there to give your
inspectors time?
Is there anybody here who truly believes that if
we let Saddam disarm on
his own - assuming he would which he won't - and we
send our troops home
that he will not throw out the inspectors as he did
before and that he will
again reacquire the arms he says he'll destroy? Do
any of you doubt that we
would be back here within five years having the same
discussion?
You do not realize how shattered the American
people were by 9-11. You do
not grasp the magnitude of the threat under which we
feel we now live. Your
national experience has been so much more brutal.
You were occupied by the
Germans. You lost one-quarter of your young men in
World War I. But we
have not had a comparable past. To us, the loss of
3,100 men and women and
the ongoing threat of random terror attacks has left
us with a searing case
of national angst.
We look around for the allies who we have helped
in their past. We look
France who we saved in two wars and protected from
the Soviets. We look for
Germany where our sentinels stood guard and whose
capital city we supplied
from the air two years after it was the headquarters
of our enemy. But we
feel abandoned. We feel deserted. Our diplomats will
forget and forgive.
Our State Department will move onto new objectives.
But our people will not
forget your abandonment. It will be at least
another generation before you
can count on the friendship of the American people.
You have alienated us
beyond redemption.
And what are you doing to the United Nations? If
France vetoes this
resolution, or if the states of the Security Council
reject it, we will
never ask the U. N. for permission again. The
Security Council will become
as discredited as the General Assembly, the body which designated Iraq in
charge of the Human Rights Committee and Libya in
charge of disarmament.
Who would ever think of asking the General Assembly?
In the future who
would ever ask the Security Council.
Your vote is only important because of your veto.
But, use it here and it
will be the last time you ever do because we will
never again subject our
vital national interests to your caveat.
You ask why the Democrats don't speak up against
the war. Because they
are not suicidal. Well, maybe they are but not
about this. The vast, vast,
vast majority of Americans support Bush on Iraq and
recognize that we must
do what we must do.
You wonder whether there will be patience in the
US for a long war or high
casualties. If will only be long or deadly if Saddam
uses the weapons of
mass destruction you maintain he doesn't have. And
should he use those
weapons against our troops or against Israel, that
will become its own
motivation for us. We would fight forever to depose
the leader who ordered
our troops gassed.
President Bush is fighting to ban terrorism from
the tools of war, just as
poison gas and nuclear weapons were, in effect
banned. Hitler didn't even
' use poison gas on the battlefield. Only Saddam has
done that. The Soviets
lost in Afghanistan rather than use nuclear weapons.
We Americans know
that if Bush patiently goes country by country, he
will consign the random
killing of civilians as an instrument of conflict to
a similar fate.
We ask for only one thing and we ask it in the
name of those who lie
buried at Normandy and in dozens of other French
military cemeteries - let
us do our job.
