[hawkaw]

Promoting hatred on ALL of a country all because a democratic and free country's government did not support a war effort.

Hmm....

I just don't know if that is right or not.

In some cases "free" allies get to agree on things and in other cases they disagree.

To label some people just because their government's disagree .... I don't know. I don't think it is right.

[Leisler]

We weren't having a high school debate. War, or no war. Are you in or out. We don't hate them for their limp wrist opinions, we hate them for being abject, spineless, lying, duplicitous cowards. We hate them for their actions, inactions and for what they are. And rightly so.

[FRgal4u]

hating the French just because they don't support our stance in Iraq ALONE is wrongheaded...but think about this..

For France as an ally of America...it did the following in the last few months..

1) Publically denounces the hegemony of America, saying France needs to play the COUTERWEIGHT role in the world stage

2) Going out of her way to stir up troubles for us all over the world...Villepin is travelling all over Africa, Turkey, Middle-East before the war and now AFTER the war...why...stir up troubles...(Villepin told the African countries, why vote with America in the UN because France will veto it anyway, why risk the umpopular vote...Villepin told the Turksm never allow the US troops open the Northern Front orelse Turkey will never be part of the EU...and the MiddleEast countries - try to stir up more troubles before and AFTER the war)..

3) France "unclear" position in supporting the Coalition of the Willing VS the dictatorship of Saddam...as an ally of ours, France refuses to openly support our troops, instead over 30% of the French hope we lost in this war!

4) France, now a core of the unholy trifecta - the Coalition of the LOOTERS...why would any American, supporting the war or not, should ever support the French position that the UN alone is THE player in the post-war Iraq reconbstruction effort (France has NO global influence in both economic and political terms - outside UN , NATO)...so why should the countries which have not shed a single drop of blood, spend a penny in this war play a role in the post-war reconstruction effort (If FRABCE wanna play, it gotta pay...forgive the Iraqi debts!!!)..

so, France is NO ALLY of America...we should not hate the French because they don't support our cause in Iraq alone, we should treat them as a competitor at best, a hostile entity at worst..France is no longer an Ally of the United States of America.

[Publius6961]

Right.
And a tiny, minuscule percentage of muslims are irrational, violent and murderous.

You interested in buying bridges?

[dead]

Promoting hatred on ALL of a country all because a democratic and free country's government did not support a war effort.

I don’t think you even read the article. He specifically cautioned against that:

”We must begin by making it clear that when we say we hate ``the French,'' it does not mean we hate all French people.”