Cool News

Nicolas Sarkozy has been reported by Le Nouvel Observateur (as reported itself in Le Monde) to have had quite an interview. Of course, now everyone is saying it is false, but it is a great French lesson. http://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2008/05/23/le-nouvel-observateur-reconnait-avoir-prete-de-faux-propos-a-nicolas-sarkozy_1048888_3236.html#ens_id=1048688 We start out about a visit to Tunisia and goes on from there. It is very short, yet very blue. ------------ In case you have forgotten Iraq (" na'am, nasaitu al Iraq !"), we have a cool scene as recounted in TomDispatch, May 22, 2008: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174935/tomdispatch_michael_schwartz_the_loss_of_an_imperial_dream "... Just this week, Iraqi troops moved into the vast, battered Shiite suburb of Sadr City in east Baghdad after weeks of fierce fighting. The first descriptions of the damage -- U.S. air power was regularly called in over the last months in this heavily populated slum area -- are devastating: "As I moved into the neighborhood," writes Raheem Salman of the Los Angeles Times online, "the destruction from weeks of fighting was horrible. Most of the shops and kiosks have been damaged. Doors are knocked off their hinges. Windows are shattered. The walls are riddled with bullet holes. Some buildings are blown apart by missile fire..."