France's Hero Inside the Baghdad Government

Fermement opposé à la dictature de Saddam Hussein, le PCI était aussi, jusqu'à mars 2003, vigoureusement contre "l'invasion impérialiste de l'Irak, largement motivée par le pétrole."

The French have found their hero — the very only one — inside the Baghdad government. Raïd Fahmi is a communist partially educated at France's Sorbonne — and therefore is a man who can be expected to set up obstacles to everything while disbursing politically correct phrases at every opportunity ("Pour sauver l'Irak, c'est maintenant ou jamais") — so naturally, the science and technology minister's every pronouncement is considered a piece of golden wisdom…