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Chirac hails end of Iraqi dictatorship PARIS (AFP) - French President Jacques Chirac hailed the fall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s government in Iraq (news - web sites) and said he hoped the fighting in the country would end soon, his office announced. "France, like all democracies, is delighted at the fall of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and hopes for a quick and effective end to the fighting," Chirac's office said in a statement. "It is now necessary to create the conditions which will give the Iraqi people its dignity in re-discovered freedom. "What is...