The Bleat: James Lileks responds to encounter with "Paris Match" editor on Hugh Hewitt show 7/27

Lileks.com ^ | 07.28.04 | James Lileks

[Mr.Atos]

Like King Kong entering Paris.

[cripplecreek]

I listened to the interview and it seemed that there was a large change in the attitude of Le Sommier when interviewed by Hewitt and when taking calls from listeners.

Le Sommier was clearly upset with the repeated questions from listeners regaurding french arms sales to iraq.

[bikepacker67]

You should clean up your own backyard, you know, you helped Saddam get in power with the CIA in 1968.

He's absolutely right... which made it even MORE pertinent that we set things right by removing that butcher.

[Redbob]

Michael Dukakis could storm Paris on a bicycle and the French would meet him waving white flags!

[Rummyfan]

What was the end result of the French Revolution?

A pile of headless corpses and a tyrant!

[Mr.Atos]

"What was the end result of the French Revolution?

A pile of headless corpses and a tyrant!"

That, My Friend, should be the Quote of the Day here on FR.

Atos

[Mr.Atos]

Is there a Lileks Ping out there?

[vbmoneyspender]

I wish Lileks would have pointed out that we didn't supply any arms to Hussein. The Frog kept saying that Rumsfeld provided arms, which is a flat out lie. Lileks responded by pointing to the SIPRI report which shows that less than 1% of Hussein's arms came from the U.S. but if you look closely at the SIPRI report you will note that that 1% of 'arms' sales consisted solely of civilian helicopters, which Hussein later converted to military use.

More to the point, when we provided aid to Iraq the purpose of the aid was to help defeat another country that we were in a de fact state of war with, i.e. Iran. As such, we had a pretty good excuse for giving such aid as we did to Hussein (i.e. satellite photos that showed where the Iranians were massing for an attack). But once the war ended, we stopped giving aid to Hussein. What I would like to know is what was France's excuse for continuing to give significant aid, including weapons, to Hussein after the Iran-Iraq war ended?

[Snuffington]

Is there a Lileks Ping out there?

Oui, monsiuer.

Paging the Lileks Pinglist.

[My2Cents]

I've read that the chem and bio material we may have supplied to Saddam were initiated during the Carter Administration. Anyone know for sure?

[mak5]

Lileks is, day in and day out, the best read anywhere.

[Constitution Day]

Thanks for posting this. I checked this morning & it wasn't up yet.

[Charlotte Corday]

Even Piaf, although after a while you want Patsy Cline to show up and teach her a lesson in getting over it, for God’s sake.

Lord, give me the gift of saying things as well in a thousand words, as Lileks and Steyn do in twenty five.

[Constitution Day]

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[Mr.Atos]

If I recall, Hugh had already hit Msr. Bedspring with those facts just before James came on. He first denied the facts, then dismissed them, did he not?

I still loved it when he accused Lileks of being 'one of those Fox people!' I half expected James to turn into the Hulk on the other end of the line and bound his way to Boston on the spot...

...Or just tell Msr. Bedspring what to do with himself.

[vbmoneyspender]

I don't have a source at hand, but I think you will probably find that the stuff that was sold was almost certainly dual-use stuff like chlorine.

[vbmoneyspender]

I listened and Hugh wasn't arguing with the guy because he wanted to get him to say that the French favor Kerry. However, none of the people Hugh had on ever mentioned the fact that we didn't sell ANY weapons to Hussein. They only mentioned the SIPRI report and the fact that less than 1% of Hussein's weapons came from us.

[RonDog]

Would you consider asking the Admin Moderator to ADD a more informative title to this thread?

You can do this by hitting the "abuse" button, and asking nicely.

I will ping my Hugh Hewitt list here, but to get folks to read this thread, it would REALLY help to have something in the title like:

The Bleat: James Lileks responds to encounter with "Paris Match" editor on Hugh Hewitt show 7/27

This MUCH more informative thread title uses 96 of the maximum 100 characters allowed in an FR thread title. :o)

[RonDog]

Regis Le Sommier, the American bureau chief for Paris Match..

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...Googled Regis. Ah, of course. I remember him. Go read; I’ll wait.

Try HERE:

Google search for Regis Le Sommier

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