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Thursday, February 27, 2003
posted by gbarto at 12:55 AM:
Here come your French news headlines:Le Monde: Iraq: the fall of Saddam as a model, details Bush's speech to the American Enterprise Institute, in which he said a new regime in Iraq might inspire some new thinking throughout the Middle East.
Le Figaro: Iraq: France's options, says that Chirac hasn't ruled out the use of a veto in the UNSC to get Bush's attention. Also, the International lead is Blix doubts Iraq's will to cooperate, which says he sees no progress with Iraq on fundamental issues of disarmament.
Libé: Saddam denies everything and gives comfort to warmongers.
Interestingly, the Blair vote also makes news. Below, we note that the House of Commons backed Blair - by a pretty good margin, too. But France's newspapers focus on the discontent within the left wing of Labour; their headlines give the impression Blair lost the vote. Le Monde: Tony Blair must face a revolt from his parliamentarians. Le Figaro: Labor revolt against Blair. Libé: Great Britain: Blair mauled. True, the anti- vote among Labourites was pretty high for a usually disciplined party. But to look at these headlines, you'd never guess the opposing party and his own party both supported him by clear majorities nonetheless.
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