IT'S WEASEL SEASON (via Rantburg):

Ministers declare open season on French (Guardian, 3/13/2003)

The British government declared open season on France yesterday in retaliation for its threat to veto the proposed UN resolution on Iraq.

Tony Blair, after weeks of restraint, openly criticised France in the Commons, as did other ministers. Officials have been told they have been freed by "the highest authority" to lay into the French.

Relations have not been so bad since De Gaulle vetoed Britain's entry to the common market in 1963.

The Coalition counterattack heats up.

A French foreign ministry spokesman said its position was "perfectly clear and consistent, and has been since the very start of all this.

As The Skeptician so incisively pointed out. Posted by Paul Jaminet at March 13, 2003 9:19 AM