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To: JohnM who wrote (80912)	3/10/2003 9:06:15 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Who Is Dominique de Villepin..? Diplomacy at High Speed, Pour la France! By Elaine Sciolino The New York Times Saturday 08 March 2003 truthout.org <<...ALGIERS -- When people talk about Dominique Galouzeau de Villepin, one image that springs to mind is that of a rabbit. France's foreign minister is the Energizer bunny of diplomacy, a hyperactive force who sleeps no more than four and a half hours a night, enjoys waking up aides to discuss matters of state, runs marathons by day and writes poetry by night. In the span of seven days in January, he was in Ivory Coast on a Saturday negotiating with warring factions, in Russia on Wednesday preparing President Vladimir V. Putin's state visit to France and in China on Thursday and South Korea on Friday to discuss the North Korean nuclear threat. Altogether, in his first 10 months in the job, he has traveled to 70 countries, including this trip accompanying President Jacques Chirac on his first state visit to Algeria. By far his biggest impact on the world scene has been to emerge as the most vocal and relentless critic of the Bush administration's march to war against Iraq. As the architect of the French-German-Russian initiative this week to stop the United States from passing a war resolution at the United Nations -- unless international weapons inspections fail -- what Mr. de Villepin says and does have taken on a level of importance unheard of in trans-Atlantic diplomacy...>> <<...In the interview, he insisted that his antiwar stance was motivated by love, not hatred, of the United States. "Really, we are so convinced that America is taking such risks for its future with this Iraq cause," he said. "To act like I do, you have to know how much I love America."...>>