When the people of Nepal or Upper Volta start drawing swastikas on the graves of war dead that died liberating them from the Nazis, then perhaps I would form an opinion about them too.
France *caused* this war. Our young men and women are once again bearing the baggage of France. Had France not telegraphed their utter unwillingness to back up any resolution with force, said force may very well have not been necessary.
Why, then, should Americans be wrong in deciding not to do business with those that make our young men and women die for them, yet again, without gratitude?
Not all the French do things like that. Keep in mind as well that the real French aren't likely to do things like that--those anti-Semitic acts are increasingly perpetrated by Muslim immigrants who merely reside in France.
France *caused* this war. Our young men and women are once again bearing the baggage of France. Had France not telegraphed their utter unwillingness to back up any resolution with force, said force may very well have not been necessary.
That's a big leap to make--blaming the outbreak of a war on a non-combatant. If Saddam is as irrational or as inflexible as he has been portrayed, do you really think Saddam would have changed his response if France had joined the side of the U.S.?
I'm sure Saddam knew that the U.S. was coming anyways, regardless of what the French said or did about it. Bush himself made it clear from the outset that the French opinion, or even that of the UN at large, wasn't going to affect his decision to go to war.
All that UN resolution wrangling was just a way of Bush trying to buy time for the troop build-up and give Tony Blair some political cover domestically. France did exactly what Bush expected from the beginning, and it didn't change anything. France acted its part very well, like in a Hollywood production. It was all for show. Bush is a master strategerist, after all. :)