<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[FRANCE BLINKS]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/23/international/worldspecial/23NATI.html" target="_blank">Kinda</a>. Meanwhile, a &#8220;French official&#8221; tells the <a href="http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&amp;ArticleId=94084" target="_blank">International Herald Trib</a> that Chirac is about engage in a period of &#8220;rhetorical adjustment.&#8221;  Heh.</p>
<p><span style="color:#7c7ca6;font-weight:bold;">HITCH IN TROUBLE: </span> He&#8217;s been <a href="http://www.theonion.com/onion3915/christopher_hitchens.html" target="_blank">haranguing</a> the missus again.</p>
<p><span style="color:#7c7ca6;font-weight:bold;">NOT SANTORUM: </span> These Republicans are, well, <a href="http://www.psychedelicrepublicans.com/index.asp" target="_blank">psychedelic</a>.</p>
<p><span style="color:#7c7ca6;font-weight:bold;">THE ALLEGED TRAITOR: </span> Intelligence experts say the documents apparently incriminating anti-war campaigner George Galloway <a href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,941528,00.html" target="_blank">check out</a>. Was he paid off by Saddam? The British government starts to <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-655984,00.html" target="_blank">investigate</a> his &#8220;charity&#8221; and its funding. The Labour Party starts an investigation into what it calls &#8220;extremely serious&#8221; allegations. FYI: The Treason Act 1351 is still active, making it a crime, punishable by life in prison to &#8220;be adherent to the king&#8217;s [now queen&#8217;s] enemies in his realm or elsewhere&#8221;. If he&#8217;s guilty, send him to the Tower!</p>
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