seanie

Unconvincing cop/deeply unconvincing cop.

Kamchatka

If it is a good cop/bad cop scenario, France, Germany and Russia are playing the good cops and the U.S., Britain and Spain are the bad cops.

Kamchatka

Well, they've convinced the U.N. to unanimously support the latest resolution.

They've convinced Soddom to accept new inspections.

They've convinced Soddom to cooperate (superficially) with the inspectors.

The real question is what have France, Germany, Russia and China accomplished with their fauvist grandstanding for peace?

seanie

Intriguing use of the term 'fauvist'.

Could you explain in this context?

Kamchatka

Painting a distorted view of their positions, as for peace, camouflaging their true national interests which involve the maintenance of the status quo as it relates to Iraq and the active erosion of American global influence.

seanie

I see.

You weren't suggesting they were were grandstanding for peace in the highly colourful manner of a pre-expressionist French artisitic movement.

Thanks for the clarification.

Kamchatka

Oh, there is no doubt that the present manner the French are grandstanding for peace is a "colourful" movement.

Unfortunately, this movement is originating from their bowels.

seanie

eeeeurrrghhh...

ImGod

You may be taken more seriously if you stop mistaking the man Saddam with a city destroyed as depicted in the Jewish Torah.

Ut

Err...you don't seem to understand the good cop/bad cop principle.

The bad cop (US, Britain et al.) threatens to beat the shit out of the suspect (Iraq). The good cop (France, Russia, Blix et al.) comes to the defense of the suspect, but warns that he cannot stop his colleague for long unless the suspect cooperates (disarms).

Take out the good cop, and the suspect thinks he's just going to get beaten up anyway and that there's nothing he can do to prevent it.