French Foreign Minister Alliot-Marie quits over Tunisia

[Turborama]

Source: BBC

February 27 2011 Last updated at 19:33 GMT

Embattled French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has announced her resignation after weeks of criticism over her contacts with the former Tunisian regime.

But she said she had done no wrong, and launched a strong attack on the media.

A veteran conservative politician and cabinet minister, she had been in her new job for just three months.

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Ms Alliot-Marie was heavily criticised for initially offering French help to quell the uprising in Tunisia.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12591452

[sabrina 1]

1. Good, anyone who actively supported these brutal regimes

should be and I hope will be, ousted from their positions.

She is not the only one. The reason for the delay in the reaction of Western Powers to all these revolutions was that they were hoping their puppet dictators would survive to protect their 'interests' and that includes the U.S.

They have not fooled anyone. Even now, I feel certain there are many who hope Qaddafi will survive because of all those lucrative contracts they worked so hard to get.

But their complicity in the crimes against the people of these nations, the lies that were told about the people of those countries 'they are not ready for democracy' etc. etc. are falling apart and all the crimes, all the lies, all the fake 'terror' claims, are being exposed to the world.

I'm glad she's gone, but what about Sarkozy, the rightwing bully who refuses to listen to his own people, good friend to all the dictators who made profiteering easy for his buddies? I hope this all ends his career also.

And Cameron, and all the other Western leaders who knew well what dealing with and propping up those dictators meant for their people? All of them should kicked out of office. The West needs a whole new system of government now, and many people, like Blair, Bush et al, definitely need to be held accountable for the evil they perpetrated on so many people as soon as possible.

'Game Over' as the Egyptian protesters said! They are all exposed now. Thanks to Wikileaks also. No wonder they tried so hard to suppress that organizaiont. So much to hide.

[naaman fletcher]

2. Does that include Ortega?

He is supporting Gadhafi. I hope he is ousted from his position. Do you agree?

[sabrina 1]

3. What do you mean by 'actively supporting'? Is he arming him

eg as the British and others, including the U.S. have been doing for quite some time now?

There are Latin American leaders who support anyone they perceive to be the victims of Western Colonialism. But the Western Powers did way more than ideologically support him. In fact they did NOT but they were willing to overlook his brutality towards his own people for profit! They KNEW what he was doing but they wanted the oil and the lucrative contracts, like Bechtel and Halliburton and the rest of the MIC war profiteers.

If Ortega was arming him, was profiting from the relationship knowing how oppressive a regime he was the leader of, then yes, he should be ousted from his position. But Latin American countries had a very different relationship with Libya than Western War Profiteering nations.

So, how exactly was Ortega supporting him? Was he sending people to be tortured in Libya, in Egypt or in any of those countries, as the U.S. and Britain were eg?

[naaman fletcher]

4. verbal support

he called him his brother and said he was behind him.