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	<title><![CDATA[Chirac Is Gone and The DC Elite Kick Him Around The Block Once More]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seanpaul-kelley/chirac-is-gone-and-the-dc_b_48189.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Before I read this <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2165750/">rather harsh column by Anne Applebaum</a> I thought to myself, "one thing you'll never hear from anyone in the American foreign policy elite is 'France was right.'" Applebaum doesn't disappoint. </p>

<p>Sure, she says, "[Chirac was] the man who made the right decision about Iraq, albeit for the wrong reasons." But we all get her subtext: "Chirac was wrong about our justifications, which of course were right (and righteous), had it not been for the dynamic...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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