Pave: I Can't Believe It's France! IV

Le jour 288 de Sarko

I will never betray you.

Bernard Kouchner,
current French Foreign Minister,
to United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
in a naked reference to Dom de Villepin* knifing
Colin Powell personally (and this) and the
Bush and Blair administrations duplely
February 3, 2008 (NYT)

The article goes on:

[W]hen [Kouchner] and Sarkozy met with Bush, Bush said:

Chirac promised me that in the end he would be with us on Iraq. And then he betrayed us.

Let us hope M. Kouchner enjoys a long tenure in his post.

Kouchner speaks of returning France to the heart of Europe and Europe to the heart of the Western alliance; but on Iraq he hasn’t made much headway among his fellow foreign ministers, or even his own colleagues. M. Kouchner:

They believe that I am an unguided missile. They believe that I’m a foolish guy. ‘Why is this stupid Kouchner going to Iraq? We don’t care about Iraq!’ They are stupid. They don’t know that the core of the danger is there, in between Iraq and Iran, in between Lebanon and Syria. This is the common enemy, not only for Americans but for all democracies. And the common enemy is extremism.

[Hat tip: ¡No Pasarán!]

More unbelievable pronouncements by French folk can be found here, here, and here.

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* Then the "Gargouille" of the incomprehensible trope, but soon to reinvent himself as the "Mouette" of the comic inspirational gasconade .

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