NATO Agrees to Help Iraq; Chirac Raps Bush

[54anickel]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5532242

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - NATO leaders tried Monday to put bitter rows over Iraq behind them with a deal to train the new Baghdad government's security forces, but France said it still opposed a formal role for the alliance there.

In a further upset to a carefully fostered image of renewed transatlantic harmony, French President Jacques Chirac rapped President Bush for his support of Turkey's bid to join the European Union, saying it was none of his business.

Bush, in Istanbul along with Chirac and two dozen other NATO leaders for a two-day summit, hailed the formal handover of power in Iraq earlier in the day, but said the interim government may need to take tough measures against insurgents.

"I do not believe it is (NATO's) mission to intervene in Iraq," Chirac, a fierce opponent of last year's U.S.-led war, told a news conference.

He said a formal NATO presence in Iraq would "not be in keeping" with the decision taken by alliance leaders earlier.

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[Fenris]

1. Man, did I ever read that headline too fast.

:scared:

[LittleApple81]

2. Let's hear it for a Frenchman's courage! (I know I cannot say balls, even

though I would want to use that term in order to communicate that the French are not the wimps they have been deemed to be by the American propaganda machine).

[truthspeaker]

3. Don't let the language police get to you. Just ignore them.

[nofurylike]

5. yeah, why care if you call yourself progressive

then call men superior to women?

why give a sh*t. it's your world, eh?


shouldn't need "thought police."

is your shame you do.

[nofurylike]

4. since, of course, men are big and brave and tough

and women are wimps.

try havin a baby, pr**k, then raise one, along with your whining husband. women know how wimpy men really are.


hopeless.

[nofurylike]

9. why bait like that in the middle of a non-related thread? compulsive. n/t

[kskiska]

6. He's listening…

[Dover]

8. ROFL!!! That is the funniest picture I've seen of Shrub......in a week!

"...huh? Sheesh...and they thought I was difficult to understand.."

It's French to me!

[newyawker99]

10. LMAO!!! What a great pic!

LOLOL!!!

[izzie]

7. Does this mean France does not want Boy George to run the world?

Maybe France got it right when they lobbed the head off their ruler?