BUTT OUT, FRANCE

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 4, 2006 10:00 AM

Jacques Chirac wants to come to Zacarias Moussaoui’s rescue. Because I guess, you know, they don’t have enough aggrieved jihadists to deal with in France. (Bryan Preston asks: “Rescue him from what? So France can not kill him, too?)

Ed Morrissey is right on:

This is a small taste of what would have occurred if the jury had given Moussaoui the death penalty. The French government would have given this much more visibility even today had that occurred, and it would have continued for years until we executed the supposedly mentally ill terrorist. As it is, if the French want to confirm American opinion of their nation, then they should by all means pursue this diplomatic effort. It will give us plenty of opportunity to remind the Chirac government of its lack of fidelity in its pledge to support us if we went back to the Security Council just once more on Iraq. We can also talk about all of the bilateral efforts between Paris and Baghdad that undermined the sanctions regime, sent military arms to Saddam Hussein, and paid bribes and kickbacks to the Ba’athist regime that Oil-For-Food specifically sought to sideline.

If the French get their hands on Moussaoui, we will only wake up a few years later to French pronouncements of miracle cures and rehabilitation, and watch the video of the AQ terrorist gleefully leaving the French prison over the protests of the American government. We do not wish to rely on French tenacity in the war on terror; we learned that lesson a long time ago. Let the French try to invoke whatever treaties they want to request Moussaoui’s extradition, and let them stomp their feet when we tell them to pound sand.

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Moussaoui speaks out. Says we will never catch bin Laden.

Peggy Noonan doesn’t mince words: They should have killed him.

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