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Tyrone Slothrop
So the French and Germans were pushing for the UN to run things, but weren't willing to ante anything up for the privilege? I don't think so. Please find me a cite for that. You're back to the tried-and-true tactic of disparaging the French for being French. It's rhetorically effective, and not wholly unfair, but pretending at this point that we had to do things the way we did them because there was no alternative is a crock.
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Oh good grief Ty. We all know - except maybe you - that Chirac's hiding behind the UN was all about France's uncollected debts and contracts with Saddam and had nothing whatsoever to do with altruism, the peace process, multilateralism, etc. I sure didn't see them waiting on the UN when they ran into Algeria last year.
But I'll bite anyway. Sure they were willing to ante up - they would for for UN control and in turn get lucrative UN contracts [e.g. Oil for Food]. Who knows, maybe they would even build a second nuclear reactor for Israel to blow up.
