France's Chirac calls President Bush : Begs for Forgiveness

...and can we please have some of the oil $$

PARIS (AP) - French President Jacques Chirac and President Bush spoke by telephone for the first time in more than two months Tuesday, in a possible sign of warming ties after their bitter dispute over war in Iraq.

Chirac, apparently signaling a desire to repair frayed France-U.S. relations, told Bush during the telephone call that France is prepared to adopt a "pragmatic approach" to the postwar situation in Iraq.

 

[Oceans11]

Aw, he wants some of the loot from the heist.

Birds of a feather...

 

[FunkSoulBrother]

I don't know that I would call that "begging for forgiveness".

 

[FunkSoulBrother]

And if France wants an Iraqi Oil contract, they can make it with the new Iraqi government. No calls to the US government necessary.

I mean, we are letting them elect their own democratic goverment, they can do business with whom they please.

Right?

 

FSB, just wait and see/hear what the tone outta Paris is in the next few weeks...

 

>Right?

Yes, in about 1-2 years... until then the USA/UK control the oil flow.

 

[peterorchard]

"begs for forgiveness"
Might be American diplomatic language but it's certainly not European.
It might be useful if you include your sources in future, Frank.

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[FunkSoulBrother]

Frank just likes to write his own sensational headlines to benign AP and Reuters stories, Peter.

 

[peterorchard]

This is hardly the Frank I recognise from 12\18 months ago who dabbled in tennis predictions.
Perhaps he was only waiting for something better to come along?

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[radiofreecostarica]

Of course he's going to work through this diplomatically-- if he were like Bush he'd just bomb us.

And you have to consider that Chirac is pushing for UN intervention in rebuilding Iraq.

 

[kayaman+]

"pragmatic approach"
In other words, a practical rather than idealistic approach. So he's saying that he's putting his ideals aside because it's practical to calm the trigger happy idiot running the most powerful nation on earth despite. Where's the begging?

 

[peterorchard]

Jacques Chiraq and Vladimir Putin have taken care of the "food for oil" programme up to now, thank you very much, but see the threat on the horizon from an American Vice-President who just happens to know someone in the construction industry.

Whatever, I just don't see George getting around the UN on this one.

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Whatever, I just don't see George getting around the UN on this one.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Whatever, I think that by telling Chirac where he can jam his security council veto, George showed that "getting around the UN" isn't necessary. Just go THROUGH the pusswipes if needed. And if Rumsie can get his uncles-brothers-wife on her mothers side's-next door neighbor's-thursday night bowling partner a contract to do business in post-war Iraq, then I say draw up the contracts baby. Anything to keep the French and other pacifist nations from benefiting in any way other than being the laughing stocks that they are.

 

[radiofreecostarica]

By your definition a "the laughing stocks" are those who do not fight in war.

By YOUR definition, you are a laughing stock and a pacifist, else you would be in Iraq fighting this war.

 

[kayaman+]

Anything to keep the French and other pacifist nations from benefiting in any way other than being the laughing stocks that they are.

Pacific nations are a bad thing???

 

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by radiofreecostarica:
By your definition a "the laughing stocks" are those who do not fight in war.

By YOUR definition, you are a laughing stock and a pacifist, else you would be in Iraq fighting this war.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>radio, thanks for defining for me what my version of a pacifist is. My defintion of a pacifist is a wimpy leftist nation or an individual pusswipe such as yourself, who would condemn a nation under decades of tyranny to MORE endless decades of tyranny all in the name of "peace". You close your eyes to rape, murder and torture and wax poetic about what a beautiful world it is just because bombs aren't falling. Ask the Iraqi's how peaceful their lives were under Saddam. I served my time in the military-during the Reagan years. Somehow war never materialized when the rest of the world knew what would happen when America finally would show some backbone. Especially after the pacifist years of Carter.

 

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Pacific nations are a bad thing???<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>No Kaya, Pacifist or Pacific nations or whatever you want to call them, aren't a bad thing at all. As a matter of fact, i'm sure that your boy Saddam wishes that there were at least a few more of them out there.

 

>This is hardly the Frank I recognise

Same ol' Me... Still cannot make $$ on Tennis

 

Drink Italian wine. No need to come with hat in hand.

 

>Drink Italian wine

California wines aint bad...