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Saturday, February 15, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:26 AM:
Here come your French news headlines:Le Monde's headline du moment is The Planet Mobilizes Against War. Notes the article, French Foreign Minister Villepin is looking forward to hosting a bunch of the marchers. But not to worry. France listened impartially to the evidence today before taking any decisions vis-à-vis Iraq. Oh, and I also waited for the report before drawing my own conclusions. At best, France is plainly at least as guilty of forming an opinion before all the facts are in. It's bad enough when the TurkeyBlog does it. But we expect better from the frogs.
Le Figaro is spinning hard for the Chiraquean camp: Blix gives ammo to the peace camp. Says Le Figaro, the peace camp is celebrating that with a little more time and Iraqi cooperation, war shouldn't be necessary. It's the Iraqi cooperation thing that's the sticking point. I read the same report they did and couldn't help but notice that said cooperation had not been forthcoming. Those who think if we just wait long enough, all this can get settled, remind me of the old exec whose company lost a penny on every item but hoped to make it up in volume: Continued excuses for Saddam and continued remonstrations against those who would hold his feet to the fire will not suddenly back Saddam into a corner of niceness where he says, "I love you guys, let me tell you some of my secrets." It will - as it already has - encourage him to give the useful idiots just enough that they refrain from removing their rose-colored glasses. Rose-colored glasses of the sort that had been kept on the American people regarding terrorism... until 9/11. I fear the world will get its rose-colored glasses smack right of its face if we play at this game much longer.
Libé leads with A chance for peace. You've already seen the arguments elsewhere.
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