FROM TODAY'S WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE "No means no," protesters shouted at Nicolas Sarkozy this week in Dublin. The French President was in town in his capacity as president of the European Union to discuss with Prime Minister Brian Cowen the Irish people's rejection last month of the EU's Lisbon Treaty. The week before, Mr. Sarkozy had proposed doing to the Irish "no" what EU leaders do when a referendum doesn't go their way: Ignore it. "The Irish will have to vote again," Mr. Sarkozy told French parliamentarians last week, according to lawmakers who attended the closed-door meeting. Trying to calm Irish fury about this attack on their democracy, Mr. Sarkozy said in Dublin that he had been misunderstood. "I never said Ireland had to organize a new referendum." Denials, like lies, are best kept simple, and the French...
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