Off topic, but related to France, some quotes from a USA Today article which can't be posted here. From Jacques Marcellin, a French Jew who spent three years hiding from the Nazis in the South of France.
“ I am alive today thanks to the Americans and the English”
about the war in Iraq? "America may be right, it may be wrong,"
abuse of prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison? "The French did the same thing in the war with Algeria."
"Americans are God. The rest are (French expletive),"
And Chirac dares lecture the President on what comments will be acceptable during his visit and the Jesse Jacksons of the world dare accuse Bush of racism. Chirac and his government have defined themselves, freedom is only for the few in their eyes.