I agree with ScreamSilently on his points except:
4) The French don't want to fight Iraq because Iraq had Mirage Jets...Which the french make...YOU ASS
close but not quite, not only do the iraqis have Mirage jets, the french have been supplying them with parts through the UAE by selling the UAE parts for mirages and allowing them to forward the parts on to Iraq. BTW the UAE has no Mirage Fighters in their inventory.
http://www.ainonline.com/issues/04_0...pterpg129.html
Not that the mirages or gazelle's had any impact in this war so far.
I heard from the same person who sent me the above link ( I usually don't get on a rant about hearsay, but he's a 50 year old who used to work for the UN and is very up to date on his facts ) that the French have also been selling the Iraqis "Agricultural Chemicals" that also double as main ingredients for chemical weapon compounds. I have to wonder if the French were so opposed to the war because they didn't want the dirty little secret that they've been dealing with Iraq though back channels and other countries knowing where their products were ending up for all of these years, and what they were being used to make. Personally I think that they knew EXACTLY what the stuff they were sending there was used for and were too pansy to send any French military in there to get gassed and have to explain to the French public that the chemical weapons that toasted their sons were made of French "agricultural supplies" that they sent off to the middle of the desert (as you know the Iraqi desert is the hotbed of the farming industry :twisted: ) in Iraq through some third country.
But now the best part is that they are crying that they want a part of rebuilding Iraq and that the US and Britain who footed the bill, in both dollars and lives, to free the Iraqi citizens shouldn't have anything to do with it.
Do I hate all of the French...no (although the Jerry Lewis thing puts me close to the edge
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Do I hate the French governments actions since the beginning of this...Hell yeah, and more so now that I found out a little bit about the backhanded stuff they've been pulling.