The French are trying to have an effect on the election. We must Pray because the President of France said he wants Bush to Lose. | | President Jacques Chirac said to a reporter He does not want the Americans to re-elect President Bush |
French President Jacques Chirac of France blocks Nato plans to train Iraqi security forces. Chirac says he want's to stop President Bush from being elected.
France yesterday led a clutch of nations blocking Nato plans to train Iraqi security forces. The 26 Nato allies agreed last month in Istanbul to go ahead with a training programme, but the US and the French remain at odds over the interpretation of the accord. At issue is the extent of any Nato deployment inside Iraq. Despite three meetings yesterday, ambassadors failed to clinch a deal on the details of the operation, though there was optimism that a compromise can be found by the end of the week.  France was the fiercest critic of the war in Iraq and a row over plans for Nato to protect Turkey from potential attack by Saddam provoked the biggest crisis in the alliance's history. Meanwhile France is reluctant to avoid making any show of international support for George Bush's Iraq policy before the Republican Party's pre-election convention, which opens at the end of August. French President Jacques Chirac wants to have an effect on the election by stoping any Nato support. He said he does not want Bush to get re-elected. At the Istanbul summit the French President Jacques Chirac, said that the alliance could offer support to individual nations which want to train Iraqi troops but that "a Nato presence in Iraq" was out of the question. Germany and Belgium are also unenthusiastic about an alliance mission inside the country but will not stand in the way of the majority. The temperature has been raised because the US is pushing hard for an early decision and for an ambitious programme of Nato involvement.  "At the end of the day the French fear that the Americans will be able to transfer responsibilities to Nato because of this unique chain of command," said one Nato diplomat. They would rather destroy Nato than help the Americans. Meanwhile France is avoiding any show of international support for George Bush's Iraq policy before the Republican Party's pre-election convention, which opens at the end of August. We want to stop Bush in his tracks before the election one French official said.They accuse President Chirac of reneging on a deal over training which was struck before the Istanbul summit.
The reason we must pray is the French President would rather see babies die to get his way. All the people who are in harms way might not have been there if he did not stop nato from helping. Now that is real insanity. We must pray the Lord puts a burden on these nations to stop the war there not here.
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