Jacques Chirac has clearly taken leave of his senses:
French President 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.”
“That would justify the war after the event,” Chirac told reporters.
He probably wants Mugabe or TotalFinaElf to administer Iraq.
Kat
This is the perfect opportunity for Pres. Bush to tell the french that we didn’t intend to ask, so no big deal. Why the hell would we legitimize the UN bs by going back to them now?
Gregory Markle
It’s nice to see that Chirac is not done marginalizing his country and the UN. Last time I checked, Kofi Annan was the head of the UN so why is it that Chirac seems to have decided the he is the mouthpiece of the world? Oh yeah, forgot for a sec, he’s FRENCH…
What I’d really like to know is exactly HOW Chirac thinks he’s going to get his way…it’s not like the US and UK really give a rat’s ass what he thinks anymore.