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Friday, February 14, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:28 AM:
Here come your French news headlines:Le Monde leads with a Crucial Day for Iraq at the UN. The Security Council is as divided as ever, on the eve of reports that quite plausibly have Iraq in material breach and at best show it to be awfully well-armed for a state committed to disarmament. Meanwhile, the US has started talking about Saddam's regime in the future perfect - i.e., it'll be done soon.
Le Figaro is in much the same vein: Decisive Day at the UN. Figaro also quickly gets to the latest failed attempt to get all of NATO singing from the same sheet music, and runs a secondary article, The Crisis Does Grave Damage to NATO.
Further down, we get this: Gerhard Schroder Seeks Allies. He went before the Bundestag and cited the caution of France and Belgium in an attempt to assure that his anti-American, and no-war-no-matter-what rhetorical postures haven't isolated Germany from the world community.
Libé leads with The Inspectors Report before a Divided UN. They also hit on one of the economic impacts of the war-talk and France's approach: Americans Turn Up Noses at French Products. This is known in the blogosphere, but it's one of the first times I've seen it discussed in French media. Of course this comes up because some of our representatives are talking about tariffs, etc, which would be stupid. The American consumer is perfectly capable of reading labels and shying away from those that advertise France as their provenance. In fact, I've seen quite a few anecdotes about people doing just that.
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