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June 09, 2004

Freshly Returned From France ...

Posted by Bill

Steve the Llama Butcher proffers a field report that goes neu-queu-ler on Chirac:

And understanding your inability to actually provide coverage or real
military support in Iraq even if you wanted to (since Greyhound doesn't
connect through Baghdad yet, and the Charles de Gaulle is permanently
patrolling the water off of Marseilles to keep la France safe from, the
Barbary Pirates?) on my recent trip to your country I discovered any
easy way for you to help.

Yes, there is a way for the French government to help the transfer of
sovereignty back to the Iraqi government on June 30 that doesn't take
the actual use of troops or security forces, or even the presence of
bureaucrats.

What Iraq needs now is to develop symbols of authority and unity that
weren't touched by the all-encompassing and pervasive stench of its
fascist dictatorship. Over time, Iraq will be able to develop the myth
that they resisted Saddam, and can cover Baghdad with memorials marking
where Iraqi heroes died in liberation, much as Paris is peppered with
signs commemorating "la resistance." The myth of French resistance to
the Nazis has helped France to become what it is now: someday maybe the
Iraqis can do the same for themselves.

Ouch.

Posted by Bill at June 9, 2004 11:59 AM | TrackBack (1)