“THE game is over,” President Bush told Iraq on Thursday. “It’s not a game, and it’s not over,” Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the French Prime Minister, shot back yesterday. Thus the war of words between dovish France and hawkish America grew more rancorous. There are three men in the world who would be wise for reasons of personal safety not to show their faces in America: Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and M Raffarin’s boss, President Chirac. Middle America, egged on by hostile television networks and editorial writers, has been whipped into a rage against what is perceived as betrayal by the...
