May 12, 2004

Moscow and Paris get tough on Iraq handover

France and Russia have raised the stakes on a new United Nations resolution on Iraq, warning they will only back a proposal that gives Iraqis genuine control over their political future.
[Yeah, IOW, they want the U.S. to give over all their power and just leave whimpering, like the French have done and would do again.--Jen]

With seven weeks to go before the handover, Washington is eager to secure a new UN resolution that combines demands for genuine Iraqi sovereignty with US insistence on control of security operations.

But in an interview with the FT, Jean-Marc de la Sablière, France's ambassador to the UN, said the transfer of sovereignty should be "real and visible". "We are not in a mood
[This is how the French do everything, by their emotional moods.--J.T.]
to support a resolution we do not consider a good one," he said. "We think the credibility of the UN should be taken into account."
[...]
Mr Trubnikov [Russia's First Deputy Foreign AssClown] said any resolution should be designed to help "the Americans get out of the impasse without loss of face".
[Damned Russians! I'm not ashamed of anything we've done in Iraq and I'll bet you aren't either!
The nerve!]

Bwahahahahahaha! Pardon me while I burst out laughing!
"The credibility of the U.N."--Teeheeheehee!
These two powers made out like bandits on the "credible" U.N. Oil-for-Palaces program when Saddam was in charge and it looks as if they're trying to worm their way back into the good graces of whomever is governing Iraq after July 1 so that they can get back on the payrolls.
It's not going to happen.
We never forget that the United States has spent it's blood and treasure to topple Saddam and to establish and preserve democracy in Iraq and neither should the Frogs and the Russkis.