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| Iraq |
| Howard whacks Frenchies |
| 2003-03-13 |
| Prime Minister John Howard today launched a blistering attack on France as he hit the airwaves to sell his case for war against Iraq, a day after his nationally televised address. The Bush administration backed down overnight from its demands that the latest UN resolution on Iraqi disarmament be voted on by tomorrow but Mr Howard supported the move and denied the US was treading water. Instead, he blamed France for destroying any hope of peacefully disarming Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, echoing the sentiments of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "We won't achieve that peaceful disarmament if we continue to have spoiling tactics from say the French, who appear intent on saying no to everything irrespective of its merit," Mr Howard told the Nine Network. "I think it's regrettable that the spoiling role some countries have played have made that kind of outcome quite unlikely, next to impossible." There was an article posted today that said we don't have any friends. He wasn't thinking of Tony Blair and John Howard, nor of Aznar in Spain, nor of the Portuguese, nor of the Eastern Europeans. Friends are people with whom you have something in common. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |