Michael Smith wrote in message
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Damn good post.

France actually does help the US - the only non-US planes to drop
bombs in
Afghanistan were French, and the US now uses a French base in
Djibouti. The
difference between the french and the Brits is that France offers help
on
its own terms, while the Brits are basically subservient to the US and
will
do whatever it says.

Mike


Yeah, France's help in giving Saddam a nuclear reactor was very helpful.
At least they are friendly enough to sell inferior equipment to despots.
And the butchers of Rwanda really appreciated the French aid in escaping
Rwanda after the genocide. The Vichy French were just as French as the
resistance.


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Scott
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"Interestingly, we started to lose this war only after the embedded
reporters pulled out. Back when we got the news directly from Iraq,
there was victory and optimism. Now that the news is filtered through
the mainstream media here in America, all we hear is death and
destruction and quagmire..." Ann Coulter
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2003/091703.htm