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To: stockman_scott who wrote (80914)	3/10/2003 11:02:12 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 281500

Who Is Dominique de Villepin..? 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. What <<...In the interview, he insisted that his antiwar stance was motivated by love, not hatred, of the United States. According to a blip from the Seattle Times archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com Cease-fire immediately broken in Ivory Coast ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — The ink had not yet dried on another promise for peace in Ivory Coast before fighting erupted in its unruly west overnight, with civilians fleeing their ransacked villages and men firing at French soldiers trying to enforce a cease-fire in what was once the jewel of their empire. and Reuters story.news.yahoo.com The rebels of Ivory Coast broke the "cease fire agreement" should France: (1) Send in Villepin for more anti-war rheoteric (2) Send in Flowers and LoveBeads and demonstrate (3) Let the French Military handle the situation with force. Obviously Villepin did #(1) because the French army did nothing. and if I may quote from Rueters: "I asked the French to come and see the dead. There is an entire Dioula neighborhood that was decimated. All the houses are full of bodies, only the Imam escaped alive," Coulibaly said from Bangolo. "There are more than 200 bodies, maybe 300. And there are more corpses in the bush," he told Reuters by satellite phone. A Gbagbo spokesman accused the French army on Sunday of keeping quiet about human rights abuses and brutalities when they were committed by the rebels. "The French army never denounces the crimes committed by the rebels," Toussaint Alain told Reuters. hmmmm.....I wonder where another place in the world might be where human autocrities are overlooked ....

To: stockman_scott who wrote (80914)	3/10/2003 12:46:31 PM
From: epsteinbd	Respond to of 281500

Give de Villepin a better look. He is a genetically modified being done so by dozens of generations of first rate aristocratic matching. But, as the same can be said about Lord Greenstock, the problem must be elsewhere. It must be historical. Just wait for ChIrak speech tonight, at France's prime time! Everything he'll say, each one of his long and often well chiseled sentences, must be met with a minus if front. But the real beauty of Chirak is that he doesn't believe a single word he says. He never does. That's why he is a winner. He only want's us to believe them.