Maybe Jacques Chirac is affraid of social unrest in the poor muslim areas in France, and that it will give the right wing (LePen's National Front) in his country even more votes next time. Also I would think that Paris is a prime target for terrorist... up until now France have had a bad name in muslim countries, because France supported the Algeria goverment getting rid of the muslim F.I.S. party. He might be sucking up, so France wonīt be the next target for terror, which is going to happen in Europe sometime. Another reason could be the cost of war - more refugess (UN rapports say 1 mio people will be on the run when/if the war begins - many of them will go to Europe), and Oil companies from France loosing rights to oil in Iraq, if Saddam is not there (maybe Slavdogg is right that we donīt know half the truth about what other deals they have made with Iraq in the past).
I think there are a million reasons why he doesnīt want to go to war - but being president is not about choosing between good or evil... sometimes its choosing between 2 evils - like:
Supporting Saddam and getting into problems with the rest of EU and USA
or
Going to war with Saddam and risk social unrest, terror, jobs and next election
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"Chaos is the law of nature, order is the dream of man."
~Henry B. Adams (Historian) 1838-1918
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