Posted on 08/01/2006 8:40:44 AM PDT by Nav_Mom
The French foreign minister, whose government is positioning itself to play a leading part in Mideast peace efforts, has described Iran as a respected country that plays a stabilizing role in the region.
Philippe Douste-Blazy told a news conference in Beirut Monday that Iran was "a great country, a great people and a great civilization which is respected and which plays a stabilizing role in the region."
Hours later, the Frenchmen met with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki, at the Iranian Embassy. Tehran's mission in the Lebanese capital has been a key channel for Iran's support for Hizballah, and last week Iran denied reports that Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah had taken refuge inside the building.
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Once again the French display their cranial-rectal inversion.
(vanity)
The collection of court jesters that passes for leadership in France, may ultimately help bring about the downfall of what we still (passively) refer to as "Western Civilization".
Death by unbridled obsequiousness?
They don't want to have to surrender to the Paris rioters.
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