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| Chirac Ready to Accept Deadline on Iraq |
| 2003-03-16 |
| French President Jacques Chirac said on Sunday he was willing to accept a 30-day deadline for Iraq to disarm, provided the move was endorsed by the chief U.N. weapons inspectors. Speaking hours before President Bush was to hold an emergency summit with his top allies backing war, Chirac said the inspectors will be telling the Security Council next week that they believe it is possible to disarm Saddam Hussein peacefully. "One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors," Chirac said in an interview broadcast on CNN. Extracts were released by the president's office in Paris, and the full CBS "60 minutes" interview was scheduled for broadcast Sunday night, Chirac's office said. Asked specifically whether he would accept a 30-day deadline, Chirac said "everything the inspectors propose should be accepted." Try 72 hours, Jacques. That's plenty of time, coming after 12 years... The president's comments - backing away from a 120-day period outlined in a joint Russian-French-German memorandum submitted earlier to the Security Council - was a clear move to present his case against war before Bush meets in the Azores islands with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spain's Jose Maria Aznar. Pretty transparent, in fact... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #7 Soon Wormtongue will be wandering aimlessly, vanquished by all freedom loving kingdoms, republics, and just plain Joes..... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-03-16 20:34:54 |
| #6 Dailypundit's not happy. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-03-16 17:31:23 |
| #5 Of course "One month, two months" will take us right into Spring & Summer. Should've come up with this one month, two months ago. Time's up Frogman. Thanks for playing. |
| Posted by: RW 2003-03-16 14:53:45 |
| #4 Sure, Jacques. 30 days works for us. Call us back in 30 days and we will have the new government of Iraq chat this disarmament thing up for a bit. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-03-16 14:12:04 |
| #3 This is garbage. Notice how the word "disarm" never comes out of the Worm's mouth. As far as Chirac is concerned, this might be 30 days before the UN passes yet another "final" resolution. Pretentious fraud. |
| Posted by: Christopher Johnson 2003-03-16 13:55:24 |
| #2 Notice how Chirac wants "the trigger" to be pulled by Blix. Blix hasn't got the balls to do it, and Chirac knows it. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-03-16 13:02:45 |
| #1 Must remind the french of their potency on the world stage.... if they want to participate, maybe they can send a waiter or something ... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-03-16 11:44:29 |