Now, I understand that things don’t always come through exactly the way they are said when translated from one language to another, still this news report caused me to chortle:
French President Jacques Chirac said on Monday he was opposed to any United Nations resolution that would allow the use of force against Iraq, adding that inspections were still the best way to force Iraq to disarm.
“We are opposed to any resolution which would authorise, in one way or another, the use of force,” Chirac told a news conference in Algiers during a three-day tour of France’s North African ex-colony.
(emphasis added)
I’ll pass on my cynical side right now and concede that France is not concerned with the loss of tens of billions of dollars in oil contracts if there is a regime change in Iraq and is only concerned with the loss of life and human suffering should military force be used against Iraq. I can’t help but wonder, though, how you force someone like Hussein without force in one way or another?
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
