CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Friday America should pull out of Iraq within one year and work with Iraq’s neighbors and Europe to resolve the crisis.

In a speech at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Mr. Villepin said America’s ‘ true strength “isn’t its army.” Ameruca in the 20th century constructed an economic and cultural model “and forged an ideal of modernity that inspired the admiration of the rest of the world,” he said.

“For us you represented the camp of freedom. You were the guarantors of human rights,” Mr. Villepin said.

But the American-led war in Iraq marked a turning point, he said. “It shattered America’s image. It undermined the image of the West as a whole. It is time for the United States and Europe to regain together the respect and admiration of other peoples,” Mr. Villepin said.

Mr. Villepin said the situation in Iraq would grow “even more dangerous” unless a framework is established for ending the crisis that included “a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops.”

“I believe that it should take place within a year,” Mr. Villepin said. “That will allow Iraqis to feel that their future is in their hands and put them back on the path of national sovereignty.”

The Bush administration has opposed any timetable for pulling America troops out of Iraq.

Mr. Villepan also said Iraq’s neighboring states, from Turkey to Syria to the Gulf States, must be involved in the process to ensure Iraq’s territorial integrity.