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To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (361896)	3/12/2008 10:48:08 PM
From: stan_hughes	Respond to of 436258

Yep. Saw that clip before, plus a different one of Couric being a pompous bitch and the film crew jerking her around about it -- I'm sure you can find it

To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (361896)	3/12/2008 11:25:36 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

even the French are piling on. ouch! 'Magic is over' for the U.S., says foreign minister of France By Alison Smale Published: March 12, 2008 PARIS: Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France and a longtime humanitarian, diplomatic and political activist on the international scene, says that whoever succeeds President George W. Bush may restore something of the United States' battered image and standing overseas, but that "the magic is over." In a wide-ranging conversation with Roger Cohen of the International Herald Tribune at the launch of a Forum for New Diplomacy in Paris, Kouchner on Tuesday also held out the hope of talking with Hamas, the Palestinian faction that rules the Gaza Strip but has been ostracized by the West and by its Palestinian rival, Fatah, because it opposes peace talks with Israel and denies that Israel has a right to exist. Asked whether the United States could repair the damage it has suffered to its reputation during the Bush presidency and especially since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Kouchner replied, "It will never be as it was before." "I think the magic is over," he continued, in what amounted to a sober assessment from one of the strongest supporters in France of the United States. U.S. military supremacy endures, Kouchner noted, and the new president "will decide what to do - there are many means to re-establish the image." But even that, he predicted, "will take time."