Americans afar touched by war

The Baltimore Sun ^ | 3-1-03 | By Todd Richissin

[Oldeconomybuyer]

PARIS - Peter Jones sounds like a bright 19-year-old American college student living the dream of studying in France, which he is. He says he is here not only to broaden his mind but also to add depth to his soul. He relishes languages and music. He sees architecture, not buildings. He is in love with romance.

"The magic experience, the Parisian experience, whatever you want to call it," he says, "really is magic."

[Oldeconomybuyer]

"Public opinion in France is overwhelmingly against President Bush's stance on Iraq. The view is that he is dead-set on removing Saddam Hussein, as opposed to merely disarming him; that the president's willingness, so far, to wait for United Nations inspectors to do their job is not a skillful tactic to avoid war but a transparent cover to wage it."

This is the ultimate lie that I blame the media for festering. The role of the UN weapons inspection team is not to disarm Iraq. Their job is to VERIFY that Iraq is complying with UN resolutions by openly disarming, which is clearly not the case.

[CruisinAround]

Americans afar touched by war

Nice title. It appears this joker's biggest concern is how many croissants he should order while studying the glass pyramid in front of the L'ouvres.

[Bismark]

I would like to see how the author of this article located the Americans interviewed in France. Note that none of them expressed any support for the U.S. position.