A RESOLUTION Condemning France for Their Inaction in the Conflict Against Iraq

UNOFFICIAL COPY AS OF 12/22/1803 REG. SESS.03 RS BR 1983

A RESOLUTION condemning France for their inaction in the conflict against Iraq.

WHEREAS, the United States and France have been allies dating to the Revolutionary War; and

WHEREAS, French President Jacques Chirac recently acknowledged American assistance to France in both World War I and World War II; and

WHEREAS, American participation in the Normandy invasion led to the liberation of France, while countless American lives were lost among the dense hedgerows of the French countryside; and

WHEREAS, Allied casualties during the Normandy invasion totaled 237,000 soldiers; and

WHEREAS, France, along with the United States, supported United Nations Resolution 1441 in an attempt to disarm Saddam Hussein without the use of military force; and

WHEREAS, United Nations Resolution 1441 did not achieve its stated goal; and

WHEREAS, the United States began to pursue a second resolution from the United Nations authorizing the use of military force, even though a second resolution was unnecessary; and

WHEREAS, the French have made it clear they will veto virtually any effort to pass a second resolution; and

WHEREAS, in 1995, the French refused to find Saddam Hussein in material breach with regard to resolutions ending the first Gulf War; and

WHEREAS, in 1996, the French refused to criticize Saddam Hussein for his treatment of the Kurds; and

WHEREAS, in 1997, the French refused to block the travel of Iraqi intelligence officers; and

WHEREAS, in 1998, the French declared Saddam Hussein to be free of weapons of mass destruction; and

WHEREAS, in 1999, the French refused to support the United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission, also known as the weapons inspectors; and

WHEREAS, the French have done nothing to stop the regime of Saddam Hussein in the twelve years since the end of the first Gulf War; and

WHEREAS, ABC News recently reported that an emissary from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly traveled to Baghdad to offer Saddam Hussein exile in the former French colony of Mauritania; and

WHEREAS, French President Jacques Chirac recently said he would also oppose a new United Nations resolution that would allow the United States and Britain to administer postwar Iraq; and

WHEREAS, Chirac went on to say he would not accept a resolution legitimizing military intervention and giving the "belligerents" the power to administer Iraq;

NOW, THEREFORE,

Be it resolved by the Senate of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

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UNOFFICIAL COPY AS OF 12/22/1803 REG. SESS.03 RS BR 1983

Section 1. The Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky condemns France for its inaction in the conflict with Iraq.

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