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'Chirac Was Wrong' on Iraq, Frantic French Fret
It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for the Frogs. After raging against America's Iraq policy for months, French citizens are suddenly saying that President Bush was right and their own Jacques Chirac was wrong, the Christian Science Monitor reported today.
"Since they saw the rapid fall of Saddam's empire, the French are asking themselves if they hadn't perhaps been wrong in making themselves irrelevant to the course of history," admitted Dominique Moisi of French Institute of International Relations.
Three weeks ago, 84 percent of the French opposed Operation Iraqi Freedom. Only 55 percent felt that way last week, Le Journal du Dimanche reported.
What made them change their minds almost as fast as a Frenchman surrenders to a German? TV footage of Iraqi citizens cheering as U.S. troops toppled that statue of their longtime oppressor.
"Chirac was wrong to say no to the war," Paris bartender Georges Chabat told the Monitor. "The Iraqi people wanted to get rid of Saddam Hussein."
Chirac has been presented as Saddam's best friend, noted Alain Madelin, a Conservative politician who opposed France's war policy. "The Iraqis feel today they had been liberated without, and even against, the will of France," he said.
Even French appeasement activists, unlike the Tinseltown dilettantes, are having second thoughts.
"I still think it was right of Chirac to say no to the war," Paris secretary Natalie Lavarra said. "But when I saw how happy the Iraqis were ... I had to ask myself whether we didn't perhaps make a mistake."
Of course, the international boycotts of French products also have the Frogs running even more scared than usual.
The Monitor observed that Chirac's "role has changed from that of an international hero walking the moral high ground to what appears to be a sulking lone voice, fighting not to be excluded from sharing in the spoils of the war."
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