MAJOR diplomatic coup in Europe!

[Frimost]

The heads of eight European countries have called for a unified front against Iraq, lending much needed diplomatic support to US President George Bush as he builds his case against Saddam Hussein.

In a joint letter to various newspapers, the leaders of Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Denmark and the Czech Republic warned that the credibility of the United Nations would be on the line if it failed to ensure that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein complied with its resolution on disarmament.

The statement is being seen as a calculated rebuff to France and Germany, the European heavyweights which sit on the United Nations Security Council and which have expressed serious reservations about war.

The Bush administration has in the last few days made clear that it is prepared to go to war without the backing of the UN if need be, declaring it would lead instead a "coalition of the willing".

The BBC's Ian Pannell in Washington says this letter gives that claim some substance. The timing of this declaration of support, he says, could not have come at a better time for the administration.

European leaders rally behind US

LETTER-WRITING LEADERS
Jose Maria Aznar, Spain

Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, Portugal

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy

Tony Blair, United Kingdom

Vaclav Havel, Czech Republic

Peter Medgyessy, Hungary

Leszek Miller, Poland

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark

 

[RastaPope]

Holy hell.


Wow.

 

[Pyper]

Aznar always was Bush's little puta.

 

[firefighter02]

At least we have the Danes on our side. They have these little chocolates with vodka in them. Wahoo!!!

 

[Frimost]

Aznar always was Bush's little puta.

Look whose talking...

First it is Blaire, then John Howard, now Anzar being bashed by the liberal drones.

Did you ever stop and consider that perhaps you are the ones who are wrong?

That perhaps them, being Presidents and privy to classified information that we are not they really are looking after the best interests of their constituency of their respective nations by wanting Saddam gone? Whatever you think the primary reason is for a war on Iraq, who gives a shit if the result makes the world a safer place for all of us?

You partisan critics are pathetic IMO.

 

[zipman]

Interesting thread Frimost! I think this is a major message to France and Germany. Obviously, the rest of Europe wants to make it clear that they must support the UN or watch it fade into obscurity.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few weeks

 

[Problem Child]

Frimost on his way to anger management therapy...

 

[Spinaroonie]

Notice no link.

 

[Purrde Flower]

Notice no link.

Where? There is a link for the article.. I'm confoosed.

 

[Problem Child]

Spinaroonie -10 for posting while high.

 

[Frimost]

Its like 1992 all over again in Europe, I can feel it in my bones. Europe is entering a new phase and evolving and reorganizing. An old age is ending and a new one beginning, indeed it will be interesting to see where this is all going because this is but one example of systemic shift in European politics and influence, things are a changing.

 

[Frimost]

The link is in the first post morons!
Notice it is underlined and your little mouse pointer turns into a hand when passed over it.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Look whose talking...

Spelling buddy says Who's

Whatever you think the primary reason is for a war on Iraq, who gives a shit if the result makes the world a safer place for all of us?

You partisan critics are pathetic IMO.

And the ends always justify the means?

 

[Frimost]

Australia is with us as well

CANBERRA, Australia -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard, one of America's closest supporters in the Asia-Pacific region, has given firm backing to President Bush's State of the Union comments on Iraq.

Speaking to reporters in the Australian capital, Howard welcomed the announcement that the U.S. would present evidence of Saddam Hussein's weapons programs to the U.N. Security Council next week.

"That puts it right at the feet of the Security Council," he said, "where the matter belongs."

"It also reminds us that Iraq has not been playing the game, Iraq has not been cooperating, Iraq has been thumbing its nose at the rest of the world, and the Security Council has got to do its job," he added.

Despite vocal domestic opposition Howard has already committed Australian naval, land and air-borne forces to the Gulf in preparation for possible military action and says further deployments may yet be necessary.

Only two other countries, Britain and the United States, have committed troops to the Gulf.

Howard backs Bush's tough line on Iraq

 

[Ham Murabi]

Aznar always was Bush's little puta.

No kidding. It's much better being Saddam's little whore.

 

[Frimost]

And the ends always justify the means?

Yes, in many cases they do anyway.

They are advocating the destruction of a brutal oppressive dictatorship which runs Death Camps and which has a human-rights documented systematic campaign of genocide against it's minorities.

Oil is a factor.
Safety from his WMD are a factor.

Who gives a shit which one they think is more important, after all, they are both important and the world will be a better place without him (Saddam).

They are not campaigning for the nuking Iraq, just taking out the Ba'ath regime there.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Who gives a shit which one they think is more important, after all, they are both important and the world will be a better place without him (Saddam).

You can't possibly know whether or not the world would be a better place without Saddam. You can't possibly know that the next guy won't be worse.

 

[Purrde Flower]

You can't possibly know whether or not the world would be a better place without Saddam. You can't possibly know that the next guy won't be worse.

Sadly there is always someone else. Will just have a different name.

 

[Frimost]

You can't possibly know whether or not the world would be a better place without Saddam.

Oh I'm 100% sure of that!!!
Anyone who has personally tortured and killed innocent people and political prisoners with his bare hands is better off dead.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Oh I'm 100% sure of that!!!
Anyone who has personally tortured and killed innocent people and political prisoners with his bare hands is better off dead.

Whether or not he's better off dead is completely irrelevant to what I posted.

 

[QuickDuck]

First it is Blaire, then John Howard, now Anzar being bashed by the liberal drones.

Damn those liberals bashing the Prime Minister and leader of HIS PARTY

 

[Frimost]

You can't possibly know that the next guy won't be worse.

You can't get worse then him pretty much. Unless you think Satan himself will take over Iraq after we put a bullet in Saddam's forehead. Sorry to burst your bubble but the possibility of someone more evil then him taking over is about as likely as a fleet of flying monkeys bursting out of Ralph Nader's ass.

Also take into account we are not just after Saddam himself but his entire wicked regime including the ones all of you are not familiar with but I know somewhat such as Ali Hassan Al-Majid "Chemicle Ali".

 

[Frimost]

Damn those liberals bashing the Prime Minister and leader of HIS PARTY

You think I don't already know this?

They are just more liberal then him, that's all... extreme left-wing, pure-bred, American-hating, socialists and radical communists.

 

[Frimost]

This fifty-four-years-old woman wears the scars of Halabj a, an Iraqi town that was annihilated by posion gas in 1988. Twenty-five of her relatives died in the attack, and now her daugther attends to wounds that contin ue to burn three years later [Photo: Ed Kashi, "When the Borders Bleed"].

"Chemical Ali" in his own Words

According to a 1988 audiotape of a meeting of leading Iraqi officials published by Human Rights Watch, al-Majid vowed to use chemical weapons against the Kurds, saying:

"I will kill them all with chemical weapons! Who is going to say anything? The international community? Fuck them! the international community, and those who listen to them!

"I will not attack them with chemicals just one day, but I will continue to attack them with chemicals for fifteen days."

 

[Calamity Jane]

You can't get worse then him pretty much. Unless you think Satan himself will take over Iraq after we put a bullet in Saddam's forehead. Sorry to burst your bubble but the possibility of someone more evil then him taking over is about as likely as a fleet of flying monkeys bursting out of Ralph Nader's ass.


Also take into account we are not just after Saddam himself but his entire wicked regime including the ones all of you are not familiar with but I know somewhat such as Ali Hassan Al-Majid "Chemicle Ali".

"His Entire Wicked Regime" LOL

You seriously need to put down the crack pipe.