If you really want to whine about the Iraq War, you really should add this guy and Chirac to the list to bitch about. Had they played ball and helped project soft power against Iraq, Hussein would have been hard pressed not to fold. Instead, they double crossed Powell and stuck it to us.
He took his games too far, now getting caught trying to frame Sarkozy to pave the way to Elyse Palace. Looks like he will follow a different path now. Screw him.
“Police searched the home of Dominique de Villepin, the former French Prime Minister, yesterday as judges appeared close to charging him with conspiring to implicate Nicolas Sarkozy, now the President, in a corruption scandal. Criminal charges are thought likely after examining judges unearthed new evidence that appears to put Mr de Villepin, 56, close to the heart of the so-called Clearstream affair.
The scandal, under investigation since 2005, involves forged bank records that suggested falsely that Mr Sarkozy and other senior figures had received big bribes in the sale of French warships to Taiwan.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2033979.ece