[buccaneer81]

Curse of the Western World.

[cyborg]

Yes they are... The French half of Belgium too.

[Zacs Mom]

[hardworking]

Well, well, well, you don't say. You mean the all-perfect, noble example-exemplar, Monsieur Chirac, who would have guided Monsieu Kerreeee had he been elected, actually didn't handle a diplomatic situation well? I can't believe it! This can't be so! Why, ze French are ze perfect diplomats. Afterall, the French-looking John F*** Kerry (who, by the way served in Vietnam) said so!

[Chewbacca]

France....Screwing up the world for over 300 years.

[wagglebee]

[dog breath]

France was always incompetent as a colonial power. Their governance was often brutal and racist. They tried to rule by a process of assimilation, making the subject people second rate French. Yet this was based on a assumption that the French culture was superior to all others. While professing fraternity and equality they never really believed the subject people were their equal. They often did little to improve the lands that they ruled and when independence was achieved most of their former colonies were in miserable condition. I have noticed that in the early twentieth century they tried to go to a more administrative British model but the problem was that they were bad administrators. While being under the rule of any colonial power was not desirable, I have always felt that the French were the most pathetic of the bunch. The British for example were much better soldiers and administrators. Even the brutal Spanish didn't pretend to be anything other then the conquistadors that they were. The French always seemed to be posturing and incapable of protecting their colonial subjects.

[Calvin Locke]

Cameroon was the only Black colony that took up arms against France

What about Haiti?

[American in Israel]

It was France that delivered weapons grade uranium to Saddam under the guise of "nuclear power". If an Islamic nuke goes off over our troops anytime soon, it will be French uranium that is powering it.

Godless men do Godless things.

[Billthedrill]

I don't get it - surely Mr. Tchameni isn't telling us that M. Chirac is...arrogant? Ignorant? Condescending? Stupid?

Well, knock me over with a feather.

One quibble, though - Aristide deserved to go.