On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 03:16 PM, John Sumrall wrote:
> By saying that no matter what you put in that resolution we're going
> to veto
> it, France took upon itself to say to America, "We are against
> whatever you
> say". That left a bad taste in my mouth toward France, so I spit it
> out.
Maybe instead of putting it in your mouth, you should use your eyes.
France never said any such thing. What they said they would not agree
to is the USA-proposed notion of drop-dead dates. E.g., completely
disarm by such-and-such a date, or war will be authorized. They have
said all along that it is impossible to prove that you don't have
something, and as long as the inspectors were not being prevented from
their tasks, that war shouldn't be an automatically-invoked option. The
US refused to submit any proposal that did not have war as an automatic
option, and chose to withdraw instead.
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