"Dear President ...CHIRAC?" Please read additional information I just posted

My original blog information is misleading; it was this: "OKAY! Soooo....Mr. Obama has now addressed a letter to Jacques Chirac, the PAST President of France. What I'm most sorry about is that nobody at the White House is correcting these faux pas before they happen. Also, that the media was so darned hard on Bush for every single tiny slip and this is going virtually unnoticed. The media, again, shows its terrible bias."

I do stand behind the fact that this letter should never have gone out but it wasn't that Obama MISTOOK the name of the French President..it was written to the Chirac Foundation.

HERE IS THE BEST INFORMATION I'VE FOUND ON THE SUBJECT, after MUCH research in French and English, and I DO stand behind my opinion that this was not a good idea. This blogger tells what happened and why it shouldn't have been sent far better than I could:

From blogger FAUSTA:

My (very!) rough translation:

Will this correspondence lead to joint projects? For now, no meetings are in the works, and they have not met in person. But the objectives of the Chirac Foundation - sustainable development and dialogue between cultures agree with the American president’s.
Both men also share their opposition to the Iraq war, which started exactly five years ago, on March 20, 2003.

OK, so here are the facts:

• Obama’s letter was sent on March 20, the anniversary of the Iraq war.
• The US still has troops in Iraq defending that country, and those troops are not only fighting but actively engaged in building a civil society.
• Each and any action by the Obama administration will be closely examined. Publicly approaching a private foundation with language that can be interpreted as being against the US presence in Iraq actively undermines that effort.

Additionally,

• Nicolas Sarkozy came to power by running not only against the Socialists, but by actually running against Chirac within Chirac’s own party. Is it a good idea to publicly “extend a hand” to Chirac, then?
• Chirac in fact, was allegedly involved in the affaire Clearstream
• Chirac’s administration as mayor of Paris was marked by corruption, from the water works contracts to other kinds of graft, and let’s not forget about his lunch money.
• Back in 2006 I was posting about Chirac’s own secret service. You may also recall Chirac’s support of Hugo Chavez.

And let’s not forget that Chirac’s foundation strongly promotes the globalisation tax, a tax on wealth generated by globalization:

“It could be a tax on airplane tickets, on carbon dioxide, on health products sold in industrialised countries, and indeed on international
financial transactions,” one source said.

So, pray tell, why send the letter in the first place?

AMEN, and thanks, FAUSTA.....Z

This part of my original post stands:
BY THE WAY: What happened to OIL FOR FOOD and notre Monsieur Jacques Chirac?
As I often say about things which disappear in the leftist media blur "must be yet another thing down Sandy Burger's pants, huh?" With Wm Jefferson's frozen money case, etc...all those things which just suddenly....die for 'lack of interest'? I WAS INTERESTED, weren't you?

z