April 27, 2003
liberté, fraternité, égalité? Simplisme!
Gee here is a shock. The UK Telegraph is reporting that the French helped the Mukhabarat to stifle dissent:
The files, retrieved from the looted and burned foreign ministry by The Telegraph last week, detail the warmth and strength of Iraqi-French ties....
[The Iraqi documents state] that "one of our sources" met the "deputy spokesman" of the French foreign ministry, "with whom he has good relations".
It claims that the spokesman from the justice and interior ministries had sought to find a legal way of preventing the Indict meeting.
The paper said it had been agreed that no Iraqi opposition leaders would be granted visas for France to attend the conference. It is not clear if Iraqis living outside the country were granted visas.
Although the conference went ahead, the Iraqis regarded moves to undermine it as a striking success.
Think about this. France, the nation that puffs itself up as believing in liberty, fraternity, and equality, tossed those principles out the window at the behest of a foreign power. They undermined their own citizens' right to dissent in order to benefit one of the worst thugs on the planet.
When Steven Den Beste wondered what France was trying to hide, I doubt even he would have believed that they would allow foreign powers to undermine the rights of their own citizens.
Then again, this is the nation of Vichy.
Posted by John Bono at April 27, 2003 08:34 PM | TrackBack
