From a 2003 interview with Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/...rry/interview/
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Secondly, I spent a lot of time before the vote looking at this issue. I went up to the United Nations at the request of some friends. And I met with the entire Security Council in a room just like this at a table like this. I spent two hours with them. (inaudible), just me and the Security Council, asking them questions. The French ambassador, "Is there a time when President Chirac would be ready to come on board? What do we need to do to move the French people to a place where they understand the stakes? Are you prepared to spend money? Do you believe we might have to use force in order to disarm Saddam Hussein? At what point would you be ready to do that?" I went through that with all of them. And I left there convinced that the U.N. was prepared to be deadly serious about this.
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Now his camp says it was a secret meeting we can't say who was there, or that he didn't meet the whole group, but met France and Britain one on one, or in small groups.
It's the level of embelishment, and the audacity to put forth the misconception on a national campaign that is so ugly.