Posted on 05/13/2007 10:13:56 AM PDT by drzz
This story was just a rumor. The true story is:
Leading French Humanitarian (pro-American Bernard Kouchner) is Likely Foreign Minister
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833531/posts
“In the run-up to the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Kouchner favoured the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and strongly criticised French policy which he said left the US and Britain with little choice but to go to war without UN backing.”
In March 2003 Chirac said France would veto a UN security council resolution authorising military action against Saddam Hussein — a position which was used by Washington and London as justification for going it alone.”
“If we had been at their side we could have avoided the war. I regret the failure of diplomacy, including our own. We should have gone along with (the Americans). That was all they asked for,” he said shortly after the invasion.
In a January 2004 interview Kouchner lamented that the French had become “America-haters.”
“We have turned (George W.) Bush into the big enemy as if that alone was a policy.... The French are America-haters, and they are also back being racists and anti-Semites. The French are sick in the head,” he said.
Regularly cited in polls as France’s most popular politician, Kouchner has kept his distance from the Socialist Party hierarchy.
Yes, I just heard that. It’s a good thing, after all.
AFP was wrong. Champagne!
The pro-American, pro-Iraq intervention, pro-Israel Bernard Kouchner has been officially named as the new Foreign Minister.
See posts 24 and 25.
“As it turns out, the unnamed “sources” in this article were wrong.”
Incredible.
If it weren’t for your note I never would have noticed... and my first view of Sarkozy would have been incorrectly poisoned. Intentionally. Is this a sore loser tactic to poison him with his supporters by making up news leaks and getting them reported in the press?
I would like to know who the original source was, and find out what they did to validate it if anything... and where did the tip come from, most importantly?
FWIW, I’d keep my powder dry in regards to that guy, Kouchner...
I can't interpret it any other way.
Now Kouchner, the actual appointee, is a founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres. The usual stance of that organization cannot be interpreted as being "of the right."
But he at least understands that a tyrant is a tyrant, no matter what kind of deals he makes with the West to keep his power.
Vedrine is a pure socialist bureaucrat whose entire life is abstract policy.
Kouchner knows the moral difference between an Israeli grammar school blown up by a suicide terrorist and a terrorist being picked off by the IDF. Vedrine doesn't.
Drat! And I was just about to buy some french fries.....
“I don’t get these idiots that think this way. They are elected because of their ideals, in the case of Bush it was conservative, then after election they decide that the people didn’t really want what they were offering and they load their government up with the type of asshats the people rejected in the election. How stupid can they get?”
Stupid enough to be triumphantly elected at the top job, and actually get to lead powerful nations... If that is stupidity, then cleverness is grossly overrated.
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