Chirac, LeMonde's snarky comments remembered, compared

Le Monde said the following on Sep 8:

Katrina's devastation points the finger at Bush's system... Issues forgotten for years are back to the fore: poverty, the state's absence, latent racism...

Even worse:

Just below was a cartoon showing the American president watching TV footage of black corpses floating in the water. "But, what country is this?" the caption had him saying to his generals: "Is it far away? We absolutely have to do something!"

That and more in this opinion piece that contrasts France's snarkiness about Katrina with their failures to deal with the recent riots.