Now France wants in on the Reconstruction

[me4osu]

What a weasel.



Chirac hails end of Iraqi dictatorship

Thu Apr 10, 6:32 AM ET Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo!



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.

 

[The patriot]

What a bunch is two faced ***holes.

I think Bush even mentioning the un in the same sentence as Iraq is even too kind a gesture.

I say if they get anything at all, it's latrine duty.

Eric skrew france!!

 

[RustyJC]

I sincerely hope President Bush doesn't roll over on this issue! To give France, Germany, Russia and China anything more than street-sweeping responsibility after what they did would, IMHO, be criminal. If the UN wants to hand out food and water and get the hospitals operating to give Blair some political cover, I might be able to live with that - but nothing whatsoever to do with setting up the government!



Rusty

 

[Jumbo Jet]

Bush will be pressured to roll over and give them what they want in the name of peace and political correctness. I don't doubt what he will do it.



We are not inclined to call our real enemies enemies, so therefore we will let them keep their sweet oil deal and help develop a government that will agree with their wants - control of the population and oil reserves.



Politicians will be politicians! You and I and the Iraqi general population will all be treated the same.

 

[jwdeeming]

Announcement:

The makers of French's Mustard made the following recent statement:



"We at the French's Company wish to put an end to statements that our product is manufactured in France. There is no relationship, nor has there ever been a relationship, between our mustard and the country of France.



Indeed, our mustard in manufactured in Rochester, NY. The only thing we have in common is that we are both yellow".

 

[d90boy]

I say if other countries want to help with the huge expense of rebuilding Iraq then that's fine with me. This whole thing is costing billions of dollars I'll take their Francs or Euros to help with that.

 

[WDaniels]

... . The only thing we have in common is that we are both yellow".

ROTFLMAO Oo. Oo. Oo.

WD