WorldNetDaily: France and Iraq

"Chirac actually thinks Saddam Hussein's youngest son, Qusay, might be the right person to lead a transition government that will change the world's perception about Iraq, if not the reality of the dangers it poses to the world.

The lesson for the future in all this? The next time France is invaded, let them call the Iraqis for help."

Lucrative oil deals, unpaid loans, selling weapons and they built the first nuclear plant for Iraq. (It was later bombed by Israel.)

I still don't understand why the French played their veto card, knowing the consequences to them and the UN. Sure, they talked of the wrongness of war in general - as a principle. We know of their distain of US hegemony. All this apart, why did they risk being ostracised by the remaining superpower?

CNN: "What emerged instead was a unipolar world, the U.S. bestriding the globe like a colossus, more dominant in every field of endeavor--economic, military, diplomatic, cultural, even linguistic--than any other nation since Rome. This the French cannot abide."

France: "giant killer. Remaker of the post--cold war world. Leader of the global anti-American camp."

High powered politics, indeed. This is what Blair warned about weeks ago, about splitting from the US. Well, France will lose.

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