"I want a man with nuclear weapons"
Is apparently what Carla Bruni was saying to her friends. Given she lives in Paris, Nicholas Sarkozy must have been thinking he was a dead-cert. The pressure! But of course there was some competition - maybe this explains recent geopolitical events.Of the Five Treaty nuclear states, aside from Sarkozy, she could have gone for:
George Bush - Quite a fit man, got a lot better nuclear weapons than anyone else, and loads of nuclear aircraft carriers. But maybe a little American?
Gordon Brown - Now we understand his desire to replace Trident. But I just don't see it.
Vladamir Putin - More nuclear weapons than anyone else, but they're a bit rusty. Likes to talk about them though, so Ms Bruni might like that.
Wen Jiabao - "My brain is like a computer", he apparently said, which doesn't sound like what Ms Bruni is after.
There are some others. India and Pakistan, North Korea. Israel - I can imagine Ehud Olmert with head-in-hands, saying to himself, "That deliberate ambiguity about my having nuclear weapons doesn't look so clever now". And then there is Iran - too late now, I'm afraid.
Labels: Nuclear weapons
posted by Matthew @ 2/22/2008 10:32:00 AM
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