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2009-09-22 Europe

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Posted by Steve White 2009-09-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin on Monday accused President Nicolas Sarkozy of pursuing him for political reasons

Actually it's because Carla is jealous of your hair, Dominique.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-09-22 01:30|| 2009-09-22 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 The case centers on a leaked list, since determined to be fake, of people including Mr. Sarkozy said to hold secret bank accounts at Clearstream, a financial clearinghouse in Luxembourg.

fake. Hmmm.

Posted by Jumbo Slinerong5015 2009-09-22 06:21|| 2009-09-22 06:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Villepin's problem was planting the fake list himself and not having a French Dan Rather do his bidding.

Posted by ed 2009-09-22 06:44|| 2009-09-22 06:44|| Front Page Top

#4 They don't say when he gets to read his poetry. That should settle things without need for further discussion. He is published, you know.

Posted by trailing wife 2009-09-22 15:24|| 2009-09-22 15:24|| Front Page Top

#5 They don't say when he gets to read his poetry. That should settle things without need for further discussion. He is published, you know.

He actually made a very grandstanding and theatrical speech at the beginning of the trial, flanked by his daughter and wimman, was much commented here (politically targeted, expiatory lamb, Justice will prevail, etc, etc...), basically tried to bask in the same verbal glory that his UN iraq war got him.
But, after all, why not??? Can't blame him to fall back to his schtick.

This whole mess is just so sordid, it's not a complex, elaborate international intrigue, it's... a petty rivalry between two long-time insiders of the french Enlightened Elites, one shiraq retainer vs a former shiraq retainer who dared dfey his fallen Capo... all this in the contxt of a shady, endless squalid backstory of an HUGE arms deal kickback (billions of vanished money, and quite a few witnesses deaths).
"villepin" is such a windbag, can't see how he still is such a legend in his own mind, he may loathes "lowly politicians" (he's after all a member of the french Civil Servant Elite, those people come and go, he stays), but his record is one failure after an another, some being just hilarious, like the 1997 assembly dissolution & subsequent new elections (that were supposed to give shiraq all the Elan he needed and get him of the pro-balladur/shiraq failed rival majority, since "villepin" vision was of a surge of the french people toward the Leader... turned out to be a complete left tsunami that made shiraq a lame-duck president for the last ***5*** years of his 7 years mandate. Good work dude).

Ps : REAL name of "de villepin" is GALOUZEAU. His nobility title is just a title his family ***bought*** very recently (50's IIRC???).

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-09-22 16:28|| 2009-09-22 16:28|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess he is the reason that "douche" is a french word.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-09-22 20:48|| 2009-09-22 20:48|| Front Page Top

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