March 21, 2003

I HAVE ONE CHIP, CAN I BET IT TEN TIMES?:


Chirac Rejects Proposed U.N. Resolution (ABC News, 3/21/2003)
Jacques Chirac said Friday that France would not go along with a new United Nations resolution allowing the United States and Britain to administer postwar Iraq.

The French president said at a European Union summit he would "not accept" a resolution that "would legitimize the military intervention (and) would give the belligerents the powers to administer Iraq."


Chirac is trying to putting more weight on the U.N. than it can support. He is also ("belligerents" - please) begging Bush to view France as a hostile power. That is, in fact, the only diplomatic initiative in which France has been successful. Posted by Paul Jaminet at March 21, 2003 1:12 PM
Comments

As the Wife said this a.m.--"The U who?"

Posted by: oj at March 21, 2003 1:43 PM

The French have it all wrong. (surprise!) The U.N. does not grant the victors the power to administer occupied territory. That power comes from the law of war. If they don't like, they can try to get a Security Council resolution.

Posted by: Lou Gots at March 21, 2003 4:29 PM

Would the US then have to face “serious consequences” for not obeying?

Posted by: Annoying Old Guy at March 21, 2003 6:36 PM
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