[Culturechat] What French papers say

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What French papers say
By Philip Delves Broughton in Paris
(Filed: 28/03/2003) 

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In Paris Match this week, the editor (of Le Monde), Alain Genestar, writes: 
"War is ugly. This one, like others, should be condemned. But to this 
ugliness is added this unhealthy rejoicing at the difficulties faced by those 
who decided to launch war.

"Here and there, never, of course, officially in the chancelleries, but in 
the streets and demonstrations, people take pleasure in mocking the American 
troops for their suffering, their mistakes and reverses as if these obstacles 
in the path of war prove they are right to be against Bush."

The loss and damage to Apache helicopters early in the conflict prompted 
French parliamentarians to joke in private that the Americans would have been 
better off with French helicopters.

VSD, a popular magazine normally full of minor celebrities on holiday, put on 
its cover this week a picture of American soldiers walking with their heads 
down through a sandstorm. The headline read: "Apocalypse now: Bush's mad 
crusade leads us towards a humanitarian catastrophe."

Pierre Lellouche, the most vocal opponent of President Chirac's stance on 
Iraq within his parliamentary party, said of his fellow deputies "seeing the 
Americans and British get a bloody nose makes them happy.  "They don't 
understand that if they lose, all the dictators, all the tyrants, all the 
proliferators will have a field day. Then what is the advantage for France in 
chaos?"