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France to terrorists: Attack us, and we'll nuke you!
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Author:  Anonymous [ Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:06 am ]
Post subject:  France to terrorists: Attack us, and we'll nuke you!
From the normally passive Chriac, this is surpsing to read.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060119/wl_nm/nuclear_arms_france_dc_2

BREST, France (Reuters) - France said on Thursday it would be ready to use nuclear weapons against any state that carried out a terrorist attack against it, reaffirming the need for its nuclear deterrent.
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Deflecting criticism of France's costly nuclear arms program,
President Jacques Chirac said security came at a price and France must be able to hit back hard at a hostile state's centers of power and its "capacity to act."

He said there was no change in France's overall policy, which rules out the use of nuclear weapons in a military conflict. But his speech pointed to a change of emphasis to underline the growing threat France perceives from terrorism.

"The leaders of states who would use terrorist means against us, as well as those who would consider using in one way or another weapons of mass destruction, must understand that they would lay themselves open to a firm and adapted response on our part," Chirac said during a visit to a nuclear submarine base in northwestern France.

"This response could be a conventional one. It could also be of a different kind."

Chirac, who is commander-in-chief of the armed forces, said all of France's nuclear forces had been configured with the new strategy in mind and the number of nuclear warheads on French nuclear submarines had been reduced to allow targeted strikes.

It was the first time he had so clearly linked the threat of a nuclear response to a terrorist attack.

Chirac, 73, did not say whether France would be prepared to use pre-emptive strikes against a country it saw as a threat.

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France has had nuclear weapons since the 1960s and experts believe it has some 300 nuclear warheads.

"Against a regional power, our choice would not be between inaction or annihilation," Chirac said in his first major speech on France's nuclear arms strategy since 2001.

"The flexibility and reactivity of our strategic forces would enable us to exercise our response directly against its centers of power and its capacity to act."

France has tightened security since Islamist suicide bombers killed more than 50 people in attacks on London transport last July, and following the Madrid bomb blasts which killed more than 190 people in March 2004.

Despite its strong opposition to the U.S.-led war in
Iraq, France remains a target for Islamist militants because of its intelligence links with the United States and Britain.

Last July, national police service chief Michel Gaudin said a radical Algerian Islamist group, the GSPC, had been in contact with al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, about launching attacks in France.

Since the end of the Cold War, questions have been raised about the usefulness of the nuclear program, which makes up some 10 percent of the overall defense budget.

Chirac's government is under pressure to cut spending as it struggles to bring its public deficit below the
European Union's deficit limit of 3 percent of gross domestic product.

"Our country's security and its independence have their price," Chirac said.
Author:  Stefan [ Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:24 am ]
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yeah, I heard that on the news...

the thing is, you have to be familiar with french domestic politics to really understand Chirac's stance on that one... first, he wants to show that he's still alive. he had a minor health incident in the end of 2005 and though nobody thought he was to be candidate for his re-election that put him in a position similar to our former president François Mitterrand who had cancer the very first time he got elected in 1981 but that we only knew of in 1993... this has caused kind of a trauma in France and when Chirac got into a hospital everybody thought (well, not everybody but pretty much) that he was done...

I don't think he'll be candidate again but he has his successor in mind, Dominique de Villepin, our prime minister that is. a man he has worked with for more than 20 years... and then there's Nicolas Sarkozy (interior minister so, basically, cops and pretty much everything happening in France), Chirac hates him for he betrayed him in 1994 making acquaintances with another member of his party and thus endangered Chirac's chances to be elected in 1995. but Sarkozy's candidate had no charisma and was regarded as upper class and cold by the people. and so Chirac won and then came a 7 years purgatory for Sarkozy. when Chirac got re-elected in 2002, Sarkozy managed to come back to business first as Interior minister, then as the Economy minister and finally back at the Interior. Meanwhile he took control of Chirac's own party (the very one he founded as RPR and that later became UMP). You can understand how pissed Chirac is, even more if you know that the hateful like sob Sarkozy is (I hate him as you could have guessed) is actually the more popular right wing political figure in France (ho yeah, french are almost as stupid as middle west americans :? )...

So basically, Chirac is showing off but I don't think he'll ever use nuclear force to oppose anybody

Big Mouth he is but he lacks the bollocks or the stupidity of Mr Bush and his administration...

ok, that was long but I hope it helps you to understand better that it was just a fart in the wind ! :wink:

NP
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Author:  Eyesore [ Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:19 am ]
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T.I.E. wrote:
ok, that was long but I hope it helps you to understand better that it was just a fart in the wind ! :wink:

That's all I read. Good post.
Author:  Tlaloc [ Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:24 am ]
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That's quite a novel idea. Blow up our subway and we nuke your country. Hey, isn't there an unspoken policy that if there is a nuclear terorist strike on the US then the US will nuke Mecca?
Author:  deathkvlt [ Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:20 am ]
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Sir Wanksalot wrote:
That's quite a novel idea. Blow up our subway and we nuke your country. Hey, isn't there an unspoken policy that if there is a nuclear terorist strike on the US then the US will nuke Mecca?


That would be fuckin' extreme.
Author:  MetalStorm [ Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:03 am ]
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Having nukes makes their dicks bigger!!!!!!
Author:  lizardtail [ Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:24 am ]
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Who the hell would attack France? it'd be like attacking Wales, or Iceland.. those countries are simply too awesome to be attacked.

also this is the sort of bluff that works well against sane people but poorly against the few extremists who may actually want to see millions of their people dead for the sake of a prophecy..
Author:  rio [ Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:26 pm ]
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I hate Chirac... a lot.
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