So let me get this straight. The United States is attempting to bully the United Nations into voting for a war with Iraq, trying to twist the arm of the Security Council and make the UN follow their will. Yet France’s behind the scenes manipulations are not bullying at all, oh no, not even when they say that those siding with the United States threaten their place in the European Union. That’s not bullying, that’s not an attempt to force the UN to bend to their wishes. No, you see, France is trying to save something! No one nation has a right to ‘dictate’ policy to the United Nations. Correction, the UNITED STATES is not allowed to ‘dictate’ policy, but France can, that’s okay.
And NATO. How dare the United States try to drive policy there as well. Who do they think they are? They are the ones destroying the alliance. How dare they attempt to actually follow the basic agreements of the alliance and provide protection for a member that is at risk? Cause defending an ally from a possible attack is sanctioning that attack, right? Wow, thanks for clearing that up France, good thing you and Germany and Belgum where there to tell the other TWELVE members what to do, despite them voting FOR protecting Turkey. Too bad the rest of them found a way around your best efforts in the fight against evil.
All this fighting because, hey, France only want’s peace.
Because they want to ignore the man that sits comfortably inside Iraq thumbing his nose at the United Nations, the man who has slaughtered countless numbers of his own people, the man who has taken advantage of no less than 14 UN Resolutions over the last 12 years, the man they want to give at least six more months to comply with the FIFTEENTH resolution (or more, one can lose count so easily).
Because they want to represent the masses that march for peace. Yes, that’s right. Cause if even one million people take to the streets of New York, that’s enough for the world to have to stop. Yes, one million Americans out of 280 MILLION marching means we must stop. Because 1/280th of the American population marches chanting ‘no blood for oil’ means that the United States is obviously in this for the wrong reasons. It means that we are in the for the oil and France, who has spent the twelve years watering down UN sanctions and resolutions against Iraq in order to set up future oil deals with the current government, are not interested in oil at all. No, they care about the human toll such a war would take. Nevermind the human toll avoiding the war will take.
Nevermind the Iraqis who have died already, are dying, will continue to die under Saddam. Nevermind that France want’s oil from Saddam’s government no matter how much Iraqi blood is spilled under his rule. That’s not ‘blood for oil’ no, that’s ‘oil for peace’!
How arrogant of the United States to think that it could enforce United Nations resolutions and liberate a suffering people. How noble of France to stand up to the United States and threaten to veto a resolution presented to the United Nations Security Council even if nine of the fifteen members vote for it or even forteen of the members.
France, that brave little former great colonial power that still exerts its influence over African nations and wishes to be the one to dictate international policy, is such a brave and honorable country.
It’s so clear now.
