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Leading French Humanitarian (pro-American Bernard Kouchner) is Likely Foreign Minister
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| 14 May 2007
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Posted on 05/14/2007 3:49:28 PM PDT by Cincinna
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Sarko is again proving that the judgement of him as "the most gifted and brilliant politician of his generation" is true.
Bernard Kouchner is one of the most popular public figures in France for the last 20 years. Fragmenting the PS is a noble and achievable goal.
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posted on
05/14/2007 3:49:31 PM PDT
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Cincinna
To: Cincinna
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posted on
05/14/2007 4:03:45 PM PDT
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rfp1234
(Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
To: Cincinna
It sounded bad when I heard “Sarko asks a socialist to be FM.” However, this guy, like Christopher Hitchens, sounds like a member of the sane left.
To: nctexan; MassachusettsGOP; paudio; ronnie raygun; Minette; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; untenured; ...
Sounds good to me!
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.
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posted on
05/14/2007 4:15:16 PM PDT
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Cincinna
(HILLARY & HER HINO :: Keep the Arkansas Grifters out of the White house.)
To: Cincinna
At the very least he doesn’t seem to be a socialist robot, for myself I think the Kosovo situation has been mishandled badly.
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posted on
05/14/2007 4:28:40 PM PDT
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padre35
(we are surrounded that simplifies things-Chesty Puller)
To: Cincinna
Excellent news! The radical, leftist pinkos must be going totally bonkers :)
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posted on
05/14/2007 4:29:26 PM PDT
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free)
To: stop_fascism
Sad to say, it’s probably too late to save France from being overwhelmed by foreigners and its socialist economy.
To: Cincinna
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posted on
05/14/2007 4:49:54 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(Barack Hussein Obama praying 5x a day to Mecca in the Oval office.)
To: stop_fascism
Hes still over 30 and a still a socialist.
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posted on
05/14/2007 4:50:30 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(Barack Hussein Obama praying 5x a day to Mecca in the Oval office.)
To: Cincinna
Kouchner’s Doctors Without Borders EXPELLED Greece for sending ambulances to help the Serbs during the Clinton-NATO-Wesley Clark bombing campaign against the Serbs.
Kouchner is no friend of the Serbs, as his longtime work as an administrator in Kosovo shows.
He worked hand in glove with Kosovo muslim advocate Richard Holbrooke to enable the Albanian muslims there at the expense of the Serbs.
To: Cincinna
What about the socialist Verdrine?
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posted on
05/14/2007 4:54:08 PM PDT
by
Rosemont
To: Cincinna
I wonder if France will now start kicking the legs out from under iran?
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posted on
05/14/2007 5:02:00 PM PDT
by
gotribe
( I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution... - Grover Cleveland.)
To: Cincinna
If he was going to take any Socialists into his government, this is the one to get. Popular in France and internationally, has worked and built bonds with the American medical community, many of whom consider him to be something like a Dr. Schweitzer.
Normally, I don't like to say anything nice about any living socialist but I suppose I could make an exception on this guy.
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posted on
05/14/2007 5:22:48 PM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Election Math For Dummies: GOP รท Rudi = Hillary)
To: Rosemont
Verdine was at least an hour ago. And was apparently hit by a bus.
To: Cincinna
Interesting. An article posted here earlier a day or two ago said that Kouchner was anti-American. But it was short on details, unlike this article.
Doctors Without Borders does seem on the whole to be a lot more admirable than most of those internation do-good organizations. No doubt they have some losers, but that’s inevitable in any large organization.
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05/14/2007 5:57:04 PM PDT
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Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
Sorry, I take that back. I was thinking of Verdrine, whom people mentioned while I was ruminating that reply.
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05/14/2007 5:58:07 PM PDT
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Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cincinna
If MSF is frog for Doctors without borders and Kouchner repudiated them, then he is one of the good guys. Go President Sarkosy.
To: everyone
Kouchner sounds like a good guy, but Sarko should be very hesitant to appoint someone to any major position who supported Royal in this campaign, as Kouchner did. Though I think it would be worse in a domestic-policy position, in which one has to deal with these horrible unions, not to mention the terrorists and immigrant “thugs.”
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05/14/2007 6:50:36 PM PDT
by
California Patriot
("That's not Charley the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
To: Cincinna
I thought that Sarkozy picked up another socialist America hater to be Foreign minister of France. I am glad that this guy is a least pro-American.
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05/14/2007 7:05:33 PM PDT
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jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: Cincinna
What gives? A different thread earlier claimed a nasty anti-Israel guy would be named FM!
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