April 23, 2003
THIS MAKES ME SICK!
AFP, the world's oldest established news agency, is reporting that senior aides to U.S. President Bush met the day before yesterday to consider ways in which to "punish" France for its oposition to the U.S.-led attack on Iraq. According to AFP, meeting participants did not arrive at any specific decisions but are expected to gather again next week in an effort to reach a consensus. Quoting now from the AFP article:
Among the ideas discussed at Monday's meeting included bypassing the North Atlantic Council, NATO's governing body, in favor of the alliance's Defense Planning Committee from which France withdrew in 1966, the officials said.
But perhaps more significantly, participants also looked at possibly not inviting France to numerous US-sponsored or -hosted consultative policy meetings held regularly with Washington's European allies, they said.
"Traditionally there have been meetings of senior officials with the Europeans and we could dispense with them altogether, expand them to water down French influence or just cut France out altogether," a second official said.
Excuse me, but wasn't our own country founded on principles that included the notion that not everyone has to agree with everyone else, and that punishment for having a different opinion just isn't right (I know, not a very eloquient way of saying it, but you get the point).
It makes me sick to my stomach to think that I pay taxes -- which in turn pay the salaries of people who entertain such possibilities. It just sickens me. How about you?
Posted by Mikal at April 23, 2003 6:08 AM
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