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Friday, March 28, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:39 AM:
French news headlines:Le Monde: Agreement at UN on return of aid to Iraq under the "Oil for Food" program.
Le Figaro: The Coalition Maintains Its Pressure on Iraq.
Libé: Anglo-Americans and Iraqis reinforce little by little.
Two striking things: 1) The French headlines got a lot more neutral after the war started. The obvious anti-US bias has given way to an attempt at reporting "just the facts". 2) There is not a lot of emphasis, nonetheless, on Iraqi war crimes, either from a legal viewpoint or from a moral viewpoint. The TurkeyBlog gives not a rat's patootie about the former, but wonders what those who worry about civilian casualties think of a country that deliberately makes its soldiers blend in and mesh into society in a way designed to force civilian casualties. Not much one way or the other, it would seem.
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