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Saturday, February 08, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:52 AM:
Here come your French news headlines:Le Monde leads with the "Terrible Bombing in Columbia." Le Monde also notes that the big news out of the Ivory Coast is, "Ghabo, peace and exactions." The president has accepted the principles of the Marcoussis accords, but death squads are simultaneously moving in on his opponents.
We've gotta give you the Figaro headline in French: "Irak: Bush fait le forcing." My Petit Robert tells me "le forcing" has been in French since 1912, but boy, it still feels funny. Anyway, we'll translate that, "Bush ratchets up the pressure," a figurative rather than strictly literal rendering but one which should do the job. Also, this editorial worries about the growing gulf between the US and France, doing its best to argue that France is reasonable and Bush is "messianic." But one senses, in reading, that what worries most for the French is that however convinced they are of their self-righteousness, they also know that a rift between the two countries is a lot worse for France than the US.
Finally, Libé has up top Chirac's insistence that a peaceful resolution to Iraq is possible. But it's not looking good, and Chirac seems to be pleading with Saddam to show up the US while running the risk that Saddam will hang him out to dry, profiting from Chirac's desire to be the other leader of the West to forestall attack and mess up US efforts while doing nothing to keep Chirac from appearing like a stooge for third world tyrants.
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