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  • In the Heart of France, Anti-U.S. Mood Softens

    04/13/2003 5:39:20 AM PDT · by Pharmboy · 39 replies · 301+ views
    NY Times ^ | April 13, 2003 | JOHN TAGLIABUE
    ORLÉANS, France, April 11 — Patrick Lebel watched the television images this week of a statue of Saddam Hussein toppled in Baghdad as joyous Iraqis danced about and he thought, as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld did, of the Berlin Wall. "It was purely symbolic, of course," said Mr. Lebel, 46, a heating systems technician, "but I thought of 1989." Julien Vazzoleretto saw the same images, yet his reaction was equivocal. "One tyrant less," said Mr. Vazzoleretto, 25, who is unemployed. "But at what price?" Even after the collapse of Mr. Hussein's rule, French disapproval of the war is overwhelming....