#5 They don't say when he gets to read his poetry. That should settle things without need for further discussion. He is published, you know.
He actually made a very grandstanding and theatrical speech at the beginning of the trial, flanked by his daughter and wimman, was much commented here (politically targeted, expiatory lamb, Justice™ will prevail, etc, etc...), basically tried to bask in the same verbal glory that his UN iraq war got him.
But, after all, why not??? Can't blame him to fall back to his schtick.
This whole mess is just so sordid, it's not a complex, elaborate international intrigue, it's... a petty rivalry between two long-time insiders of the french Enlightened Elites, one shiraq retainer vs a former shiraq retainer who dared dfey his fallen Capo... all this in the contxt of a shady, endless squalid backstory of an HUGE arms deal kickback (billions of vanished money, and quite a few witnesses deaths).
"villepin" is such a windbag, can't see how he still is such a legend in his own mind, he may loathes "lowly politicians" (he's after all a member of the french Civil Servant Elite, those people come and go, he stays), but his record is one failure after an another, some being just hilarious, like the 1997 assembly dissolution & subsequent new elections (that were supposed to give shiraq all the Elan™ he needed and get him of the pro-balladur/shiraq failed rival majority, since "villepin" vision was of a surge of the french people toward the Leader... turned out to be a complete left tsunami that made shiraq a lame-duck president for the last ***5*** years of his 7 years mandate. Good work dude).
Ps : REAL name of "de villepin" is GALOUZEAU. His nobility title is just a title his family ***bought*** very recently (50's IIRC???). |