The Kerry People Should Not Be So Stupid to Expect French Reinforcements Should the Democrat Win…

From the outset, we have said that the "peace camp's" attitude on the Iraq crisis contained large doses of hypocrisy. Events have born this out (notably with the food-for-oil scandal), and this week their leaders have been confirming it. From Berlin:

German officials on Wednesday reaffirmed their policy of not contributing troops to the American-led force in Iraq and rejected speculation, prompted by a published interview with the country's defense minister, that the policy might change. "There will be no German soldiers in Iraq," a government spokesman, Thomas Steg, said …

As far as the French position is concerned, Guillaume Parmentier said in a New York Times interview (and please notice how he is already considering the possibility — the probability? — that Democrats [being Americans] may be as stupid as Republicans) how he hopes that the Democrats would react (or not react) in case of a John Kerry victory.

What I would hope is that the Kerry people would not be stupid enough to come to Paris and ask for troops to Iraq immediately. That would be very bad. There won't be any French troops.

Meanwhile, just to give a different perspective, Hatsuhisa Takashima, Tokyo's foreign ministry spokesman, says

Relations between Japan and America have never been better than with Bush.

But what does he know, eh?

Condoleezza Rice says much of the same thing with regards to Russia, Chnia, and India.

But what does she know, eh?