France To Obama: Man Up

[mrjarrell]

It's times like this that make you wish you were French for a day. Sarkozy gets it and Obama is clueless, living out in lala land. They've redeemed themselves for any past indiscretions. Vive la France!

From Big Government: Go to the link for the full story.

For reasons yet to be determined, the National Post appears to have de-linked their own front page story on their website. Mr. Spillius reported a similar (albeit watered-down) version in the UK’s Telegraph.

Obama: “We must never stop until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of the earth.”
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Sarkozy: “We live in the real world, not the virtual world. And the real world expects us to take decisions.”

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The rest of Sarkozy’s remarks were, well, remarkable:

“President Obama dreams of a world without weapons … but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite.
“Iran since 2005 has flouted five security council resolutions. North Korea has been defying council resolutions since 1993.
“I support the extended hand of the Americans, but what good has proposals for dialogue brought the international community? More uranium enrichment and declarations by the leaders of Iran to wipe a UN member state off the map,” he continued, referring to Israel.
The sharp-tongued French leader even implied that Mr Obama’s resolution 1887 had used up valuable diplomatic energy.
“If we have courage to impose sanctions together it will lend viability to our commitment to reduce our own weapons and to making a world without nuke weapons,” he said.
Mr Sarkozy has previously called the US president’s disarmament crusade “naive.”
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No American newspapers seem to have featured Sarkozy’s justifiably derisive remarks about Obama’s naivete regarding the realities of nuclear technology. Still we can be grateful for the freedom of the press, as embodied and celebrated by the Newseum — including the chilling reconstruction of segments of the Berlin Wall. These serve as a reminder that however oppressive or myopic the powers-that-be, news cannot be stifled.

Here is Sarkozy's whole speech. Short, powerful and well spoken. Good on him! Guess Obama will be snubbing him in the future.

France fully supports your initiative to organize this meeting and the efforts you undertook with Russia to reduce nuclear arsenals. But let us speak frankly – we are here to guarantee peace.
We are right to speak of the future, but before the future there is the present, and at present we have two nuclear crises.
The people of the entire world are listening to what we’re saying, to our promises, our commitments and our speeches, but we live in a real world, not a virtual world.
We say: reductions must be made. And President Obama has even said, “I dream of a world without [nuclear weapons].” Yet before our very eyes, two countries are currently doing the exact opposite. Since 2005, Iran has violated five Security Council resolutions. Since 2005, Secretary-General, the international community has called on Iran to engage in dialogue. An offer of dialogue was made in 2005, an offer of dialogue was made in 2006, an offer of dialogue was made in 2007, an offer of dialogue was made in 2008, and another one was made in 2009. President Obama, I support the Americans’ outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing. More enriched uranium, more centrifuges, and on top of that, a statement by Iranian leaders proposing to wipe a UN member State off the map.
What are we doing? What conclusions are we drawing? There comes a time when facts are stubborn and decisions must be made.
If we want in the end to have a world without nuclear weapons, let us not accept the violation of international rules.
I understand perfectly well the various positions of the different parties, but all of us may one day be threatened by a neighbour who has obtained a nuclear weapon.
Second, North Korea. It gets even better: they have violated all Security Council deliberations since 1993, and they disregard everything that the international community says, everything. What’s more, they are continuing their ballistic tests.
How can we accept this? What conclusions can we draw from it? I say that at some point, all of us – regardless of our positions in other respects – will have to work together to adopt sanctions and to ensure that the UN Security Council’s decisions are effective.
Finally, I share the opinion expressed by the President of Uganda and the Chinese President with respect to access to civil nuclear energy. We, the nuclear powers, must agree to technology transfers so that everyone can have access to this clean energy. I would add that this will make it possible to avoid deliberate confusion on the part of those who claim to be carrying out nuclear research for civilian purposes while they’re doing it for military purposes.
So, ladies and gentlemen, my dear colleagues, this is what I believe, in full support of what was decided in the resolution and in full support of President Obama’s initiative. What I believe is that by having the courage to strengthen sanctions, together, against countries that violate Security Council resolutions, we will give credibility to our commitment to a world whose future holds fewer nuclear weapons and perhaps, one day, no nuclear weapons.

 

[The Meach]

Its sad when the Frogs have to tell us to grow a pair

 

[Paco Bedejo]

But...the MESSiah is going to rid the world of all evil & bring peace & prosperity to mankind!....

...Just another in a long line of failures.

 

[Bigum1969]

This is extra embarrassing since it is coming from the French.

Our teleprompter-in-chief is sadly naive. He thinks we can all hold hands and roast marshmallows and the world will be as one.

 

[Mr. Habib]

It will be as one. It will just be run by those that wish to kill us.

 

[infidel]

We just got ***** slapped by the French. THE FRENCH!

I miss Bush...

 

[IndianasFinest]

Is it 2012 yet ? I keep hoping one day I'll wake up, and all this BS will be dream.

 

[SavageEagle]

Is it 2012 yet ? I keep hoping one day I'll wake up, and all this BS will be dream.

WAKE UP!

It's not a dream.

It's time our government concentrates on matters that matter and the one's they're legally allowed to do.

 

[haldir]

Of course Sarkoszy is better than most of the French leaders that they have had since WW2. But they have also had the luxury of knowing they could stay on the sidelines and be popular with the rest of the world knowing that in the end the US would be the adult and take the necessary steps. Now they are faced with a US leader that they can not count on to do the necessary. Now our guy wants to be popular with the turd world and not be the adult.

 

[POTI]

Reagan got it... Momar started flapping his gums and got a nice missle in his living room... how much you wanna bet we kill the iotolla and they fall right back into the last century again.

 

[rambone]

Obama got Owned

 

[XMil]

Of course Sarkoszy is better than most of the French leaders that they have had since WW2. But they have also had the luxury of knowing they could stay on the sidelines and be popular with the rest of the world knowing that in the end the US would be the adult and take the necessary steps. Now they are faced with a US leader that they can not count on to do the necessary. Now our guy wants to be popular with the turd world and not be the adult.

Exactly.

 

[TRWXXA]

You just KNOW you're a namby-pamby, limp-wristed, pink-panty-wearin', sissy-boy when the FRENCH tell you to toughen up.