Thursday, August 23, 2007

"Since Iraq was liberated from dictatorship"

In an interview with Le Monde, Jalal Talabani tells Cécile Hennion that the caricatured view that French élites, leaders, and citizens have of the situation in his country is, er, hardly the correct one…

Unlike the patented holier-than-thou hyumanists dissing France's foreign minister from the comfortable seats of their cozy living rooms, Talibani points out that the man on the terrain that Bernard Kouchner is
est un ami depuis plus de deux décennies. Nous nous étions rencontrés dans les montagnes du Kurdistan alors qu'il était en mission pour Médecins sans frontières pour aider les civils victimes de bombardements et de déportation.

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