It is I who was wrong. I don't want to contest it. I should rather have paid attention to what I was saying and to understand that perhaps we were "on the record."

Jack,
explaining how he "drifted" into threatening to raze Tehran
January 31, 2007 (IHT)

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957)
An Incredible Adventure Into The Unknown

Synopsis: A man passes through a radioactive cloud and gets smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller...

CHIRAC PLAYS DOWN THREAT FROM NUCLEAR-ARMED IRAN
PARIS February 1, 2007 (AFP)

Please see our post below for Jack's money quote.

From that same interview (January 29, 2007):

Q: There is no risk [of civilian nuclear technology used for bomb development]?

[Jack]: None, absolutely none. You cannot take an electrical nuclear plant and make a bomb. It just doesn't work.

This is specious. If there were no risk -- none, absolutely none -- then we should all take Iran at its word. Even France is not that gullible.

It's very simple: no civilian nuclear programme can explain Iran's nuclear programme. Therefore it's a clandestine military nuclear programme.

Phillipe Douste-Blazy,*
having a sudden and painful epiphany two days after Tehran announced
resumption of its civilian nuclear program 's uranium enrichment
February 16, 2006 (AFP/France 2)

Our experience with Libya shows that it is almost impossible for the agency [scil., International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)] to decide whether a country's nuclear intentions are peaceful or otherwise. If the Libyans had not admitted [that they were trying to build an atomic bomb] we would not have been able to prove it.

Dr. Pierre Goldschmidt,
former IAEA inspector general invesitigating the Iranian nuclear program
September 11, 2005 (Telegraph)

Our first Shrinking Man post can be found here.

* The dimmest bulb in the dark Chirac marquee™.

PFFT (What is this?): French shrinkage 4½ | Dog's breakfast 4 | Rayonnement français 0

Bonjour ,

Rwanda:

Agathe Habyarimana , dans le "Figaro Magazine" accuse Paul Kagamé , formé dans les Ecoles US et fondé de pouvoir des intérêts US , du meurtre de son mari et de l'organisation du génocide au Rwanda.
Agathe dit cependant ignorer les raisons qui ont poussé les USA à armer le FPR en vue du génocide.
Naïve Agathe !
Quand il s'agit de nuire à la France , les Yanks sont prêts à toutes les atrocités ...
On comprend l'empressement de "Pave" à accuser la France.
Il s'agit pour Washington d'attaquer pour mieux dissimuler son exclusive responsabilité dans le génocide.
Tout cela va être heureusement mis au jour ….