posted at Wayne Madsen Report

April 21-22, 2007 -- As WMR has a number of readers in France, we are endorsing Socialist candidate Segolene Royal in tomorrow's first round presidential election.

Neo-cons around the world have been routed from power, are being held in check, or are being marginalized politically. Now is not the time for France to counter this trend by electing an arch-neocon, Nicolas Sarkozy, as president. Sarkozy's candidacy and so-called "front runner" status is currently being hyped by all the global neocon media outlets: Sky News, Fox, and the rest. Sarkozy would turn France into a client state of the neocons, much in the same way that Silvio Berlusconi carried out the neocons' wishes in Italy and Jose Maria Aznar took their orders in Spain. Berlusconi and Aznar are now gone.

Royal: Oui. Sarkozy: Non

The Bush administration neocons are embattled with their Attorney General and World Bank Presidents involved in major scandals. The neocons are in check in Germany, Canada, and Mexico. Around the world -- Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East -- the neocon agenda is in deep trouble. Russian President Vladimir Putin is vigorously attacking the neocons' global financial networks and his indictment of Boris Berezovsky is the first volley in a campaign to rid the world of neocon criminal syndicates.

The French revolutionary slogan of Liberté, égalité, fraternité (Liberty, equality, and brotherhood), the motto of the French Republic, can be upheld with a decisive win for Segolene Royal. Sarkozy, with his baggage of xenophobia, Judeo-Christian superiority, police state mentality, and an anti-labor agenda, is anathema to the tripartite motto. Sarkozy's platform is more emblematic of the tripartite motto of Marshal Petain's Vichy government: Travail, famille, patrie (Work, family, homeland) or, more insidiously, the motto at the entrance to Auschwitz: "Arbeit Macht Frei" - ("Work brings freedom.")