How to piss of friends and lose allies:
- Rumsfeld's Remarks Draw Anger in France By KIM HOUSEGO Associated Press Writer
- January 23, 2003, 5:15 AM EST
- PARIS -- French leaders reacted angrily Thursday to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's dismissal of France and Germany as the "old Europe," saying the comments underscore America's arrogance.
- Finance Minister Francis Mer said he was "profoundly vexed" by the remarks.
- "I wanted to remind everyone that this 'old Europe' has resilience, and is capable of bouncing back," Mer told LCI television. "And it will show it, in time."
- "If you knew what I feel like telling him, to Mr. Rumsfeld ... " said Ecology Minister Roselyne Bachelot on Europe-1 radio. She then stopped herself and said the word would be too offensive to publish.
- Martine Aubry, a Socialist leader and influential former labor minister, said Rumsfeld's comments "show once again a certain arrogance of the United States."
- Washington "continues to want to alone govern the world and more and more without rules," she told RTL radio.
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