With doublespeaking France, honor gets lost in translation

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Author(s) Jules Crittenden
Source Boston Herald
Date August 20, 2006
URL http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=153613
Quote
Quotes-start.png "The shamelessness of France knows no bounds. They have a domestic Arabic population and business interests in the Mideast to satisfy. They desperately want to be taken seriously as a major power. So they sat down with the United States and hammered out a peace plan. Then, before the ink was dry, they shrugged a Gallic shrug." Quotes-end.png


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