[Cincinna]

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.

[rfp1234]

Sounds good to me.

BTW, Kouchner’s wife was part of an interesting ad campaign.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31848

[stop_fascism]

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.

[Cincinna]

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.

[holfen123]

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.

[Rosemont]

What about the socialist Verdrine?

[gotribe]

I wonder if France will now start kicking the legs out from under iran?

[George W. Bush]

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.

[Cicero]

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.

[nkycincinnatikid]

If MSF is frog for Doctors without borders and Kouchner repudiated them, then he is one of the good guys. Go President Sarkosy.

[montag813]

What gives? A different thread earlier claimed a nasty anti-Israel guy would be named FM!

[rogue yam]

His second wife is the television presenter Christine Ockrent.

I think we need to see a picture of the second wife before we can comprehensively evaluate this potential appointment.

[DTA]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>Kouchner is famous for developing the theory of "humanitarian intervention" to justify international action against dictators who flout human rights.<<<<<<<<<<<<

While saving people around the globe, Dr. Kouchner performing euthanasia on patients whose religious conviction does not allow it.This is against the law, this is against medical ethics. This is first degree homicide. Kouchener is unconvicted murderer. And he brags about it.

-During his tenure in Kosovo, over 1000 Albanians were murdered by Albanian terrorists. He did nothing to protect them. The entire families were massacred by terrorists and dumped to the landfill.

-the largest ethic cleansing of the Balkan civil wars took place during Kouchner's tenure: 300 000 Serbs, Roma, Jews, Goranis, Croats were expelled from Kosovo mismanaged by Kouchner.

-over 100 Christian churches and ancient monasteries were burned down or dynamited. Kouchner did nothing.

Koucher publicly supported Albanian terrorists and called them "HIS FAVORITE PEOPLE".

Doctors of Serb ethicity were murdered by Albanian terrorists and Dr. Kouchner did nothing to protect them or find them when abducted. He sided with terrorists.

Kouchner is the scum of the worst kind, comparable to Dr. Mengele. Perhaps he can make a good politician, but as a human being and a Doctor, he is merde.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

France is presently moving to the political right while, at the same time, the U.S. is moving to the political left. I certainly hope that the Republicans are able to successfully turn it around within the entire U.S. before November 4, 2008, but I have my doubts about this.

[Lexinom]

I guess that’s a good thing. Is he something akin to their Zell Miller, perhaps?

[SunkenCiv]

I think the Socialists are already fragmented. What's needed is an internal feud that alienates everyone from the top on down. :') And right-wing Nicholas Sarkozy has a longer description in the MSM it seems...

Sarkozy, 52, a right-winger who advocates radical economic reforms

[Tintin chez les soviets]

I don’t like him. He’s for the euthanasia. He’s still a socialist. Although they are not the worst, I don’t understand why Sarkozy wants to include Socialists in his government. I believed that the the right win the election...
I’m very pessimistic for change now.

[kronos77]

Bernard Kouchner is Clintonian Islamofascist loving bastard!

Bernard Kouchner’s Legacy of FailureWe have long been complaining about the U.S. news media and its failure to inform the public about the Clinton Administration’s “legacy” of anarchy and mayhem in Kosovo. The news media in the U.S. has been almost completely silent about the ongoing genocide against Serbs, who are being victimized by terrorists associated with the “disbanded” KLA and its sympathizers in the U.N./KFOR occupation.

Over the past few months, though, the level of bloodshed has increased enough that news of it is beginning to trickle through the blockade in the mainstream U.S. news media.

In a Newsweek interview on May 15, 2000, Bernard Kouchner, the U.N. official in charge of the occupation of Kosovo, even admitted, “Apparently a Serb has a 20 times greater chance of being a victim of a crime than an Albanian does.” (See http://www.listbot.com/cgi-bin/subscriber?Act=view_message&list_id=STOPNATO&; msg_num=9003&start_num=9008.) But the tone of the Newsweek interview made it clear that neither Kouchner nor the magazine’s interviewer were unduly concerned about this fact.

http://www.serb.org/serbia/bernard-kouchners-legacy-failure.php

[Ciexyz]

You may remember that "Medecins sans Frontieres - MDF" won the Nobel Peace Prize some years back. Wise move on Sarkozy's part, to bring its founder into his government.