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2007-09-17 Europe

World should 'prepare for the worst' over Iran: France

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Posted by Steve White 2007-09-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 Kouchner also said his nation and Germany are discussing the possibility of additional sanctions against Iran. He added that France has advised its large companies against doing business with Tehran.

It's nice to hear France saying something finally, but let's see what they say next week.

Posted by Boss Craising2882 2007-09-17 01:12|| http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-09-16-voa21.cfm]">[http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-09-16-voa21.cfm] 2007-09-17 01:12|| Front Page Top

#2 I suppose we must be thankful that another country is also voicing this idea. Let's if this lasts longer than the placement of Iran's next equipment order.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-17 01:48|| 2007-09-17 01:48|| Front Page Top

#3 I say prepare for the second-worst. The worst would be if they get their hands on a nuke. You just know they'd use it to try to coax the 12th Imam out of its hole.

Posted by gorb 2007-09-17 02:26|| 2007-09-17 02:26|| Front Page Top

#4 WORLDNEWS > BE VERY AFRAID OF THE US-IRANIAN GAME OF CHICKEN IN THE GULF. Mother of all Mutual Escalationisms - Syria actually fears an Israeli attack agz it vv Iran-controlled/suppor Lebanese terror groups should an Israel-Iran war break out. Also in WORLD NEWS > VLADIMIR PUTIN'S GLOBAL WARNING.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-17 04:13|| 2007-09-17 04:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Affraid, Joe? Nope. It has to be done over with. Sure will suck. But a childs play compared with what awaits if the game is postponed until Ahmadinutjob can unleash his Mehdigeddon.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-17 07:15|| 2007-09-17 07:15|| Front Page Top

#6 You know when you get a guy like Kouchner talking like this it makes you wonder if these so-called intellectuals in Europe have been reading Mark Steyn. If only Merkel had the same sense of urgency and survival for her country that Kouchner and Sarkozy have for France.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-09-17 09:33|| 2007-09-17 09:33|| Front Page Top

#7 What Gorb said.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-17 10:22|| 2007-09-17 10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Context:

France is under new management. Applying to the new administration derived from DeGaulle-Chirac policy is about as absurd that thinking Truamn would be as silly as FDR respctive to to Stalin

Kouchner prefaced a a book about Saddam's crimes and defended the invasion something who amke him a patriah between in France's political landscape. And then Sarkozy nmintaed this pariah as foreign minister.

Out of nostalgia for Louis XIV and Napoleon time De Gaulle (and successors) could have liked to France into a positioon of being the referee between East and West or increasoing influence by allying with the most repugnant third world dictators nad genociders in planet (Amin Husseini liberated by De Gaulle in 1945, Khomeini protected by Giscard, Chirac and Saddam) but there are chances that Sarkozy didn't feel nostalgia for Louis XIV but instead, shame for France pandering with opressors in Hungary and elsewhere.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-09-17 11:01|| 2007-09-17 11:01|| Front Page Top

#9 France is under new management.

What a beautiful statement. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-17 11:31|| 2007-09-17 11:31|| Front Page Top

#10 France is under new management.

What a beautiful statement. :-)

Not that sarko will solve any of France's woes; what he's done so far in the crucial first 100 days shows he intends to keep the system afloat, not reform it, and is still pure PR as opposed to concrete action (it seems like his team had no idea nor planning when coming to power).
Still, for an american, he will not be shirak, that will be a tremendous improvement, no doubt.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-09-17 12:10|| 2007-09-17 12:10|| Front Page Top

#11 I'd sooner a Chiraq who fixed France's internals. Then the rest would follow. Based on what you're saying, Sarko will be even less effective than was Reagan.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-17 12:56|| 2007-09-17 12:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Who says that Reagan was ineffective? The Gipper kept his presidency very simple. He had three goals:

1) Lower taxes.
2) Rebuild the military.
3) Break the Russians once and for all

That's what he said he would do, and that's what he did.

Posted by Secret Master 2007-09-17 13:09|| 2007-09-17 13:09|| Front Page Top

#13 I cannot believe the administration is truly planning...creating an WARNINGORDER/OPORDER...to attack Iran. We have all sorts of OPLANS and CONPLANS as part of Crisis Action Planning (CAP). However, I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that we are not working on WARNINGORDERS/OPORDERS on Iran.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-09-17 14:23|| 2007-09-17 14:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Surge in Iraq needs to play out first.

Posted by lotp 2007-09-17 18:46|| 2007-09-17 18:46|| Front Page Top

#15 Surge in Iraq will have played out shortly, if the Shiites come on-line as nicely as the Sunni tribes did.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-17 18:56|| 2007-09-17 18:56|| Front Page Top

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