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Flabbergasted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 04:39 PM
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Bernard Koucher a celebrated French Humanitarian Doctor and war-monger.
Edited on Mon Sep-17-07 04:57 PM by Flabbergasted
He must have taken a nasty hit to the head recently?





Profile: Bernard Kouchner
By Caroline Wyatt
BBC News, Paris


The humanitarian activist and former Health Minister Bernard Kouchner is widely admired in France, not least for his passionate, often outspoken declarations on human rights and the need to intervene to protect them.


Mr Kouchner: There is a moral right to intervene in humanitarian crises

A doctor by training, he co-founded the Nobel prize-winning Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in 1971 to put his beliefs into action, after working as a young doctor for the Red Cross in Biafra in 1968 during Nigeria's civil war.

Seeing children there starve to death fired in him a lifetime's commitment to the cause of preventing humanitarian crises and bearing witness.

By creating MSF, "we were establishing the moral right to interfere inside someone else's country", he once told an interviewer.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6666707.stm



Prepare for war with Iran: French warning
Email Print Normal font Large font Alex Spillius in Washington and Tim Butcher in Jerusalem
September 18, 2007

THE world should "prepare for war" with Iran, the French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, said on Sunday, escalating tensions over the country's nuclear program.

Mr Kouchner said that while "we must negotiate right to the end" with Iran, if Tehran possessed an atomic weapon it would represent "a real danger for the whole world" and the world should "prepare for the worst … which is war".

His comments came after the US reminded Iran that "all options were on the table" in confronting its nuclear policy, which many Western officials believe has the ultimate aim of arming a nuclear warhead, despite Iran's claim that it is for civilian purposes.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/prepare-for-war-with-iran-french-warning/2007/09/17/1189881433475.html
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 07:02 PM
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1. this is ridiculous
Kouchner just warned that if we don't negotiate, "we" are going to war.

France says all must be done to avoid war with Iran By Sophie Louet
Mon Sep 17, 3:38 PM ET

ANGOULEME, France (Reuters) - Everything must be done to avoid the prospect of war with Iran, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said on Monday, a day after his foreign minister said Paris should prepare for that possibility.

"France's role is to lead towards a peaceful solution of a situation that would be extremely dangerous for the rest of the world," he said. He added that Kouchner was right to say the situation was dangerous and should be taken seriously.

Kouchner said in an interview on LCI television and RTL radio on Sunday: "We must prepare for the worst," adding: "The worst, sir, is war."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070917/wl_nm/iran_france_war_dc_7

making the statement "The worst, sir, is war." into warmongering is complete new definition of the word.

Kouchner just said what everybody is thinking : if we don't stop Iran through negociations, we are going to war (whoever starts it). French analysts says that if Iran isn't stopped and goes nuclear (militarily) the surrounding countries (Saudis, Egypt and Turkey) will go nuclear.

France will never attack Iran without a UN clearance. To get to that level the situation must be pretty bad. So the best that can be done is to abort the Iranian program with peaceful means before it gets to late.

The biggest problem is that the US will probably bomb the shit of Iran before negotiations can succeed. They have that bad habit. This will result into the whole region going nuclear.

The other problem is the US lefties : by denying the problem they just give arguments to the right-wingers. Democrats can have a tough stance on Iran without starting a war and working with the Europeans. That is far more efficient.


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Flabbergasted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-17-07 07:13 PM
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2. Rediculous.
Germany has "said no more sanctions." Diplomacy is going no where. And even though there is no real threat from Iran in terms of using nuclear weaponry Kouchner says prepare for the worst. No one is backing down so onward to Iran.

Meanwhile France sets up "Nuclear Energy" deals with several other Middle East Countries and with the other cheek says "You are a threat Iran."

Kouchner is either incredibly naive or aiming for a war. But hell he can help Iran through the humanitarian crisis.
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