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Perhaps too busy still mourning the loss of his business partner Saddam
Hussein, chief French quisling Jacques Chirac is not only refusing to
attend former President Ronald Reagan's funeral on Friday, his government
doesn't even list a representative who will attend.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder are the only G-8 leaders who have confirmed plans to attend.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is expected as well, along with former
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles.
Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin says he will not attend and is sending
Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson. Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is
expected.
Others on the list for the ceremony include former Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev, Irish President Mary McAleese, Afghanistan President Hamid
Karzai, South African President Thabo Mbeki, Nigerian President Olusegun
Obasanjo, Romanian President Ion Iliescu, Acting Lithuanian President
Arturas Paulauskas, former Polish President Lech Walesa, former Finnish
President Mauno Koivisto, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo
Sodano, Australian Governor General Maj. Gen. Michael Jeffrey, former
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Slovakian President Rudolf
Schuster, Grenadan Governor General Sir Daniel Williams, former Danish
Prime Minister Poul Schlueter, Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Lars Engqvist
and Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh.
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A Voice Of Freedom
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