is a president bush tried to persuade then-president bush tried to persuade french president jacques chiracsupport this military action in iraq. you write that bush said to him -- "jacques can you elaborate on that? >> it was a very interesting day when i heard that. this was a phone call -- at that point, jacques chirac have been expressing a great deal of doubt about the intelligence that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. his doubts opposite were well played. bush was trying to get a unified effort behind getting a resolution from the u.n. and then for military action. chirac was not been particularly cooperative, for the very reason he did not trust the intelligence. there's this phone call and bush is giving many reasons why france should become part of why chirac be joining in, and his not having allowed of success. suddenly, a shift to this religious conversation. jacques chirac's response to this was, he gets off the phone and other people have been in on the call, they all say, does anyone know what he was talking about? his in ministration, someone there reaches out t

their future close to the record high of seventy percent in two thousand and five shortly after jacques chirac was reelected for a second term but did manage to beat all other presidents in unpopularity after just one hundred days on the job sure i. came after nine years in government and bad ratings come after only four months. so it's catastrophic situation for when you vote for change and you relate as the president doesn't have even a plan to deliver. the reforms you vaguely promised i mean of course you. add insult to injury the state just threw a life like to a struggling mortgage lender by guaranteeing its debts after a long and explicitly declared the world of finance as his enemy during the election campaign. this craziness has to stop i think this financial sector is spending on the other side billions for things which are not a priority for us. france has begun sending direct aid to anti assad regencies syria a former french colony a move that shortly followed a last promise to recognize a provisional government formed by the opposition an all too familiar style in french foreign po

president bush really quote biblical scripture when he tried to convince the new french president jacques chirac to go to war with iraq as just one of the many questions were posed to kurt eichenwald in a special edition of conversations with great minds. you need to know this remember this debate from one thousand nine hundred ninety two. you can move your factor south to better have dollar an hour for labor our young twenty five that's a son you've been in business for a long time you got to throw one full pay a dollar an hour for your labor. have no health care that's most expensive single element making a car have no environmental controls no pollution controls and no retirement. if you don't care about anything but make the money there will be a challenge sucking sound going south so that was ross perot warning the nation about nafta it was also the last time a third party candidate was given a voice during the presidential debates and frankly the nation should have listened to him he was right and the two major party candidates that year bill clinton george herbert walker bush were dead wr

jacques. you're you're a catholic i'm a methodist but we both worship the same lord and god is coming to fruition and biblical biblical prophecies are being fulfilled and this confrontation is willed by god and chirac is listening to this and gets off the phone and says to his people do any of you know what he was talking about because god and magog i don't know if anybody listening to this knows what that is and bush was characterized as christianity versus. well he didn't say it that way but yeah it was christianity versus evil yeah you know and and the french the staff for sure rock hired a biblical scholar and i was you know one stop here the french are considering whether to join the iraq coalition and they feel the need to hire a biblical scholar to analyze the bible for them to explain what bush was talking about there's something really wrong there and so comes out ends up that this god and magog they are out of the book of dizzy kill and the book of revelation and they relate to armageddon and so when chirac gets this. that's it i mean the decision the intelligence was bad he thought but at this point you know he's not going to commit french troops to a war base the way. put it based on th