(2003-01-30) — The Republic of Iraq today announced it would co-sign a letter from eight European nations supporting U.S. plans to disarm Iraq.
A spokesman for Saddam Hussein said Iraq would stand with the ‘gang of eight’ against his own nation “in order to avoid being associated with the so-called Axis of Weasels- Germany and France.”
“There are somethings worse than being invaded,” said the unnamed Iraqi spokesman. “We can recover from a war, but it would be difficult to live down that ‘weasel’ connection. Even when we buy weapons materials from France and Germany, we ask them to keep it quiet. People will talk, you know.”

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