Well… yeah.
from the Washington Post
Rice Repeats U.S. Complaints About France
"There were times that it appeared that American power was seen to be more dangerous than, perhaps, Saddam Hussein. I'll just put it very bluntly," Rice said, according to an English- language transcript of the interview.
"We simply didn't understand it."
C'mon, Ms. Rice. You're not stupid.
They had a relationship with Iraq. They knew Iraq's limitations. They knew you overstated the WMD case. They knew you did it for the most cynical of reasons… you wanted to invade Iraq anyway so you found the only reason the American people would accept— a direct threat. Absent that, all your other reasons combined wouldn't have gotten you the support you needed a home, much less overseas. They saw you bribe "coalition" "members" into being "willing." They see you spend more on weapons then the next 10 guys combined and just as you claimed about Iraq's phantom arsenal, if you have weapons of mass destruction (and I'd say a MOAB is more accurately described that way than anything Iraq had) you will eventually used them. And they saw leading Conservative figures, the face of your movement, attack their honor over this disagreement, demand boycotts and petulantly rename anything with the word "french" in it.
Yeah, I'd say they thought American global military and economic power was a greater threat than Hussein's.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 6/1/2003 03:13:48 PM |
