Re: ...as Chirac was first week batch...
Yeah... by a whisker....
dailynews.yahoo.com
Excerpt:
French President Jacques Chirac became the first foreign leader to survey New York's devastation at first hand on Wednesday, flying over the concrete and steel skeleton of the World Trade Center with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
Chirac, who met Bush at the White House on Tuesday, hailed the firefighters at the forefront of the rescue mission. More than 300 of them are dead or missing after rushing into the burning towers and are feared buried in the collapse.
``I want to say bravo, thank you. You did that for the New Yorkers but also for all the free world, for the dignity of all mankind and we know that and we are beside you,'' Chirac said.
Chirac on Tuesday stopped short of endorsing Bush's characterization of the campaign against terrorism as a ``war'', a sign of the possible differences that could dog the U.S. quest for a united global front.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, one of a string of senior foreign visitors who was to meet Bush later in the day, said on Wednesday his country would be a partner in such a coalition, adding: ``We do not rule out any option.''
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