[T.Smith]

"... taunted British Prime Minister Tony Blair because ''our American friends'' do not ''pay back favors.''

"Bonjour? Monsieur Pot? This is Monsieur Kettle. You are le black!"

[wagglebee]

"our American friends" do not "pay back favors."

My memory must be a little fuzzy . . . how was it again that the Frogs repaid the favors we did for them in WW I and WW II?

[stm]

Weeeell isn't that special. Who poured millions of dollars in loans into France to help them turn back the Nazi's? Who kicked the Germans out of Paris in 1944? Who bailed their ass out in SE Asia when the VC kicked the crap out of them in the late 1950's and early 1960's? Who sent over thousands of grape vine stock, to be grafted on to their scions when a blight of aphids all but destroyed their wine industry? Yup, you guessed it. No need to thank us. We know better.

Exactly what favors have the French bestowed on the US? Oh yeah, I remember, they provided Saddam Hussein with Secret information about our NBC countermeasures capabilities prior to OEF/OIF. Spineless jellyfish.