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Old February 13, 2003, 17:12   #91
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Old February 13, 2003, 17:21   #92
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OK, lets try the converse.

Can you identify any specific French or EU policy for dealing with Iraq? You can't count the current "double or triple the number of inspectors and give them more time" line because they would not have adopted such a policy had the US not dragged them into it.
Adam Smith, Yes. The French were at one time building a nuclear reactor for Saddam that could be used to produce nuclear weapons.

I believe the French, indeed all of Europe, were highly critical of "unilateral" Israeli action to destroy the reactor to prevent Saddam from developing nukes.

What this illustrates is a craven indifference to nuclear weapons proliferation so long as Europe is not directly targeted. And of course, Europe has no apparent concern over the potential use of nuclear weapons against Israel.
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Neither had the Clinton administration.
And they have been roundly criticized in the US for this.
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