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2003-04-15 International

Annan takes temperature of Europeans on Iraq

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Posted by Tadderly 2003-04-15 11:10 am|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Germany's temp (reuters)

"Gernot Erler, a senior member of Schroeder's Social Democrats in parliament, was more robust when commenting on speculation that Germany will be asked to help fund Iraq's rebuilding: "If we pay for reconstruction, German companies must get business deals."

Defense Minister Peter Struck agreed, saying "It would be absurd to demand Europe help finance reconstruction, then insist that certain European countries are not given contracts."

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-04-15 11:39:25|| 2003-04-15 11:39:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Mark Malloch Brown, administrator of the U.N., said the world body's leadership was wary about being expected to play too large a role without having the resources to do so

Let me see...the UN has to take the lead, and we'll be expected to provide the resources for jerks like Mark Brown to screw us over? I don't think so

Posted by Frank G 2003-04-15 11:48:25|| 2003-04-15 11:48:25|| Front Page Top

#3 LOL Kofi, those former Communist nations know what a powerless lackey the UN is. They used it, they're gonna trust it now?

Posted by Scott 2003-04-15 12:19:26|| 2003-04-15 12:19:26|| Front Page Top

#4 When Kofi takes France's temperature, I hope he uses the Mother of All Rectal Thermometers(TM).

Posted by Dar 2003-04-15 12:25:19|| 2003-04-15 12:25:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Dar---MOART sounds like an instrument from the Little Shop of Horrors. Uhhhhhh....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-04-15 13:58:26|| 2003-04-15 13:58:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, Paul, but "I'll be a dentist!" is much more melodic than "I'll be a proctologist!"

I'm thinking more along the lines of "Pulp Fiction", where Chiraq is the gimp!

Posted by Dar 2003-04-15 15:23:44|| 2003-04-15 15:23:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Kofi's Paradim: Let me run Iraq and I promise to ask for your money to make it happen!

Posted by john 2003-04-15 20:04:45|| 2003-04-15 20:04:45|| Front Page Top

#8 What is it with these guys and their delusions of grandeur? (Oops, is "grandeur French??? My bad!)

The UN doesn't "bring legitimacy" at all. A nation is determined de-facto, by declaring itself such, and by its actions. Or do they think that declaring, oh, saym Cuba, Red China, North Korea to be "not legitimate" will make any difference in the real world?

And "remiving sanctions"??!!??!! It is to laugh. All that is needed is for Bush to say that the sanctions are over, and they WILL, de-facto, be over. Regardless of what the UN says or doesn't say.

Geesh.

Posted by ray 2003-04-15 20:33:13|| 2003-04-15 20:33:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Ray -- "grandeur" may have started out as French, but it's ours now. Just like the Statue of Liberty and just like the ethnicity of a bunch of pissed-off Americans. What we got from them, we built on and made it ours, just like we did from every other country. We deserve that word, the blood of French Americans, and the Statue. Too bad the French don't remember freedom anymore.

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