Jacques Chirac grows a pair
Permalink | January 19th, 2006
France has nukes, and they’re not afraid to use them. That was the recent warning French President Jacques Chirac gave to any state that would launch a terrorist attack against his country.
Speaking at a nuclear submarine base in north-western France, Mr Chirac said a French response “could be conventional. It could also be of another nature.”
He said France’s nuclear forces had been configured for such an event.
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On a visit to L’Ile-Longue base in Brittany, Mr Chirac said leaders of states who would “use terrorist means against us, just like anyone who would envisage using, in one way or another, arms of mass destruction, must understand that they would expose themselves to a firm and adapted response from us”.
Who would have thought France would be threatening nuclear retribution?
[via The BBC]
