Re: [A-List] What has France to lose?

[Bob Enoch <bobenoch@xxxxxxx>]

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From: "Chris Burford"

(snip)

The nature of current world
Contradictions is that a country like France can
> gain more, and put the US under more pressure than it will lose, by
playing
> with a veto.)
>
> Bush may still have to go with his logic of regime change by war, but his
> domestic opinion poll figures are sliding, and he cannot be sure that the
> economy won't turn worse.
>
>
> Chris Burford
> London
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And what if it is, and has been the intention of this Junta to dismantle the
UN?
I think we underestimate the radicalism of this regime.Their policy has been
provocation; of enemies, potential enemies, neutrals, and allies.

And if France can " gain more...than it will lose by playing with a veto"
surely she can only do so once?
What then?

Bush must proceed in any case; if he backs down now he would likely wind up
in prison....but there is , in my opinion, only one element of the current
conjuncture that has not been anticipated, as well as precipitated, by the
Junta, and that is the Global nature and sheer size of the anti-war
manifestations.

Even Bush could not imagine that a seizure of the world's petroleum supply
would pass unnoticed, or unnopposed by those regimes who will be most
embarrased by it.
And those who speculate about a shift to the Euro for oil transactions
should ponder how this could come about with the Empire occupying Iraq, and
staring slyly at Saudi Arabia.

As for the US elections in 2004, I think Diebold Electronics and their
computer voting machines will have more to say about the outcome than
traditional political considerations.
This regime crossed its Rubicon long since.

There is little point imagining that they will suddenly decide that Clinton
had the better strategy.
War it shall be.

Bob