France: U.S. Must Accept End of Occupation

[Eye and Monkey]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-US-France-Iraq.html

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NEW YORK (AP) -- The United States must accept that its occupation of Iraq will end when it transfers power to an interim Iraqi government on June 30, even though U.S. troops will lead the force that stays in the country, the French foreign minister said.

Michel Barnier said the Bush administration needs to understand that there must be ``a real break'' and that the caretaker Iraqi government must be consulted about the movements and operational use of the multinational force.

Barnier spoke Thursday at a news conference after a working dinner with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan which focused on efforts by U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to put together an acceptable transitional government to assume sovereignty from the U.S.-led coalition.

He heads to Washington Friday for a meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of Eight major industrialized nations, where Iraq will also lead the agenda.

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[truthisfreedom]

1. hmm. i guess we shouldn't wonder too much about bushco's response to

this.

[Voltaire99]

2. France: right then. Right now.

Stupid fucking American neocons and centrists!

...Pardon my French. :-)

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. You have a probkem wiht us Patriotic (barf last

recourse of the scoundrel) Ameiricans?

Ah them freedom fries,

By the way methinks I will have some freedom fries tomorrow and salad wiht French Dressing and french cheese...

Damn Chimspster

[0rganism]

4. And the French should know

Goodness knows they've given up on a few colonies in their time, too.

[BonjourUSA]

5. Yes, and in Iraq that's nothing else than a colonial war

But I don't know if in the USA this idea is a taboo