Words without swords are meaningless!
<font size="2">What a dope. </font><font size="2">Oh no, there are crises! Quick, let's have a meeting and talk about it. Forever!! Let's get together every pussified group of cowards in the world and form a new study group. Naturally they won't have any power at all. Yep, that truly is a "new dynamic of negotiation": about the weakest possible form ever imagined! Can we send the fwench an emergency planeful of Spinal Viagra, or is there nothing at all left for it to work on? </font><font size="2">The Middle East has been a center of international tensions since ... well, forever? Since Exodus at least? Dur. </font><font size="2">Yes, invading Iraq exacerbated buried tensions there, because under Saddam they were brutally supressed. Remember what happend in Checkoslovakia when the commies went home? Same same, and for many of the same reasons. Things will sort themselves out eventually. A whole lot sooner if all the "worried" neighbors would stop their damn insurrectionists from coming over and stirring up trouble. I'd say a part of the blame lies squarely with fwance, who helped draw the borders on the map that created countries where only tribes existed before. Another part is that world famous Islamic Tolerance. </font><font size="2">Yes, it weakened the stability of the surrounding countries. Dictatorships, all of them. How is that not a Good Thing™ Jacqo? The worry about their independence should be overshadowed by their worry about their survival.</font><font size="2">Seems to me that the Iraqis have had their sovereignty restored for quite some time now. Three elections worth. Remember all those purple fingers? We're not totally in charge there, just helping them along. It's not like they've ever had anything like freedom or representative government before, ever, not once in 6000 years.</font>
Of course Chiraq is complaining! He lost one of his best customers! (Please explain how, other than a blatant violation of the sanctions against selling weapon parts to Iraq, how Iraqi Miorages were still fylable after ten years? and how they had replacement parts in stock....)
Draven, don’t forget all those brand-new Roland 3 missiles the Polish troops found in Iraq. France was in the merde there just as deep as Russia.
Mirages are French, but thanks for reinforcing my point.
How much did he get from the Oil-for-Food scam?