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advaita25 discovered 18 months ago- From the page: "Chirac argued strongly that 'while Saddam Hussein could be overthrown, the subsequent consequences would be disastrous'. But the policy aide reveals: 'Tony Blair never paid any attention to what Chirac said... He'd kind of come out rolling his eyes and say: "Oh dear, dear old Jacques, he doesn't get it, does he?"...' Blair and his press chief Campbell reportedly decided to place the blame for deadlock squarely on Chirac, following a breakdown of diplomatic efforts to get a second Security Council resolution that could have delayed an invasion. 'I recall the moment,' Wall says in the documentary, 'because I happened to be in the corridor in Number 10 when he and Alastair Campbell were walking down the corridor and they decided effectively to play the anti-French card. They'd been given an opportunity to do so because President Chirac had given a broadcast interview the previous day in which he said that, as of that moment, France would veto a resolution authorising war.' Wall says it was clear that Chirac had not ruled out the possibility of future French support for such a compromise." ----- So the moral of the story seems to be 'if in doubt, blame the French'
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