[FreedomNeocon]

One last tidbit... its even worse than I thought.

Its the "Dan Rather" method. Fake but accurate... a "truth" proven by a lie... the parallels are uncanny.

“We know that a meeting was negotiated,” Arnaud Montebourg, a spokesman for Ms. Royal, said in an interview. “This showed that in exchange, he had made verbal concessions showing he separated himself from French diplomacy.”

Asked if the Socialist Party had any evidence that Mr. Sarkozy had “apologized” for not sending troops to Iraq, he replied: “These are facts. How do you want Mr. Bush to shake the hand of a leader without some sort of opening on his part?”

So basically... they met, so he MUST have said something like "I'm sorry", so therefore the underlying story is true, pay no attention to the actual facts. Just a device to play on people's anti-americanism, and quite transparent.

[FreedomNeocon]

"Anything but Sarkozy"... tons of vile hatred everywhere... being characterized as an out of control power hungry imperialist... wow... they just keep coming.

From http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=5460865:

Sarkozy, the former interior minister whose tough stances on law and order and immigration have brought him enemies in immigrant suburbs and beyond, is facing an “Anything but Sarkozy” movement that Royal and her allies are using to fan fears that he would “brutalize” and “divide” France.

“Why so much hatred?” he asked over and over in a campaign speech Monday, repeating the question 46 times.

With the left promoting an image of Sarkozy as a power-hungry, 21st-century Napoleon...

Heightening the drama, there have been calls on the French left for the Socialists to cast aside their historic ties to the Communists...