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Chirac, Bush and the Apocalypse

Thursday 26 February 2009

by: Eric Mandonnet



Jacques Chirac, horrified by George W. Bush's interpretations of Scripture, invoked to justify the Iraq war, privately made accurate predictions about the upshot of that war. (Photo: Paul Morse / White House)
Editor's Note: Thanks to Dan Billin, who brought this story confirming an earlier report translated for Truthout to my attention. -ljt/TO
In 2003, a telephone call from his American homologue made the French president understand what was pushing the American president to want to make war on Iraq.

Editorial Director for the "Journal du dimanche" between 1999 and 2005, Jean-Claude Maurice met Jacques Chirac, while the latter was still head of state, in tête à tête dozens of times. Notably in 2003, before the war that the United States was preparing to unleash in Iraq, and which the French president opposed. In "Si vous le répétez, je démentirai," ["If you repeat this, I will deny it"] to be published March 5, Jean-Claude Maurice recounts.