Pro-Iraq/American Leaders 5, Anti-Iraq/American Leaders 1

It's been a rough year for anti-American and anti-Iraq people around the world, including Jacques Chirac. After the Spanish terrorist attack, Jose Maria Aznar lost an election that gave great hope to anti-Americans everywhere to finally put the Yanks in their place. Oh, how the times have changed. Bush, Blair and Howard were all re-elected in the past year while Schroeder and Chirac are suffering loss after loss.

Chirac's approval rating fell 8 points to 24 percent this month, according to a survey of 1,000 French people conducted from May 30-31 for Le Figaro Magazine. No margin of error was given. That's the lowest since TNS-Sofres started surveying voters in 1979 under President Valery Giscard d'Estaing.

Chirac suffered his third electoral defeat in 14 months when voters rejected the EU treaty. The failure of Chirac to tackle a jobless rate of 10.2 percent, the highest since December 1999 contributed to voters' rejection of the treaty.

Don't fret guys - at least John Kerry has a chance to run for president of France now...

*Update*
One reader reminds me that Aznar himself did not run in the election, so technically he didn't lose (although his party did). Good point.

{Link to MG's Open Post]