Bayrou is like a fish in water: he can speak of "symbols"... Ah, "symbols in French foreign policy, symbols in French political scene...
Bayrou's arguments make no sense. He claims that if France had been in the NATO command in 2003, France would "most certainly" have gone to Iraq. However, Germany was in the NATO command in 2003 and it didn't go to Iraq.
What is so ironic in this situation is the attitude of the opposition. Bayrou, the heir to French Christian democracy and the MRP, is taking a stand against. However, the French centre, from the MRP to the CDS, has always been one of the most pro-European and pro-NATO parties. More proof that he's a fake centrist. The PS is against, while in 1966 the SFIO introduced a NCM against the Pompidou government condemning this.
François Fillon as recently as 1990, when he was one of the leaders of the Séguiniste faction of the RPR, wrote a brochure against this very re-integration into NATO.
I think Michel Debré must be rolling over in his grave.
