Chirac Nuclear Comments Backfire in Europe

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COMMENTLINE
You can't get much past those folks in Europe, can ya'?

NEWSLINE
"Jacques Chirac is an idiot," chided Belgian daily De Morgen in an editorial. "He lives in a time where France is no longer a world power, but he's still acting as if prolonging a Napoleonic dynasty."

NEWSBYTE
Chirac Nuclear Comments Draw Ire in Europe
PARIS (AP) -- President Jacques Chirac drew scorching criticism in Europe on Friday for suggesting France would consider a nuclear response to state-sponsored terrorism.

Chirac's headline-grabbing comments in a speech Thursday sent a warning to countries like Iran and sought to nip in the bud domestic debate about whether deeply indebted France still needs its expensive nuclear deterrent in the post-Cold War world. Read full story.

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