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Bernard Kouchner: Thanked by Mandela, Pro Iraq War, Now Sarkozy's Socialist Foreign Minister
I mentioned David Lindsay's blog recently. His post about French kicking their "surrender monkey" habit went like this:Bernard Kouchner was one of the very few French Socialists to support the Iraq War. His punishment for this gargantuan error? Appointment as Sarkozy's Foreign Minister. Of course.
That's all David says. But Kouchner was also a co-founder of Medecins sans Frontieres and Mandela once whispered to him "Thanks for intervening in matters that don't concern you."
So perhaps it is not that simple.
David was certainly wrong in my eyes to have been taken in by Margaret Hodge's View from Barking.
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Founding MSF was a long time ago. The Iraq War wasn't. And in any case, I think we all know for which of them Sarkozy has appointed him.
We'll see. Kouchner appears to have changed his tune eventually on Iraq and become a troops out when the jobs done wallah.
I agree with you to a point. But I'm more optimistic.
Kouchner never supported the Iraq war. He wrote an article entitled 'Neither War nor Saddam' before the invasion. It's also dealt with in Paul Berman's brilliant book - Power and Idealists. Stalinist Neil Clark in the Guardian and the rest of the critics are just plain wrong.
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