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Foreign Affairs: Jacques Ch-Iraq and Tony Blair
March 18, 2003
On the eve of the Second Gulf War, the Moose takes inventory to post reminder of just who are our friends and enemies in the world. The examples provided by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the French President Jacques Ch-Iraq could provide no better contrast.
Jacques Ch-Iraq has a longstanding relationship with Saddam Hussein that dates back to the 1970s before either one became leader of his country. Most recently this relationship has evolved to become quite profitable for the French oil industry. France does more than $1.7 trillion in trading with Iraq and is considers Iraq a priority supplier of oil. So President Jacques Ch-Iraq is more than willing to place these interests over his nation's responsibilities as a NATO partner and past friend of the United States. And the Moose finds it quite ironic when the liberals here at home say the war is about oil.
The contrast is the loyal and strong support we've enjoyed from British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Moose lamented the defeat of the Conservative Party when Blair was elected Prime Minister. He ran on a more moderate platform, but how could the Moose know this was real and not just playing for the cameras to get votes? The British Labour Party has some hard line leftist and socialist politicians. Blair has turned out to be the moderate and champion of a bipartisan foreign policy consensus the Moose can only dream about seeing in the Democratic Party here. Outside of maybe Joe Lieberman and Bob Graham, the Democratic Party seems to have allowed the far left from the 1980s to write their foreign policy agenda. The principled and articulate stance against Saddam Hussein by Blair is a welcome change.
And today Ch-Iraq's regime announced it will join the Coalition of the Willing if Saddam uses chemical or biological weapons. This attempt at diplomatic damage-control might be too little, too late. The Moose thinks forgiving and forgetting the recent actions of French won't come that easily.
Bon jour, cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
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