Gee.
I wonder why Germany and France don't want to be associated with the US, on this one?
1. Because Germany and France have a paper trail a mile long. Germany taught Iraq haow to build and operate cyclotrons, which are used to enrich uranium up to weapons grade.
2. Germany and France have numerous contracts with Iraq for oil. Germany and France have financed Saddam's despotic regieme. THE BLOOD NOW AND YET TO BE ON SADDAM"S HANDS WAS AND IS ONLY POSSIBLE WITH GERMAN AND FRENCH EUROS.
3. France has always been against the US except when their bacon needed to be saved in WW's I & II. They wouldn't let our planes use their air space when Reagan knocked some sense into Ghaddafi. And he did knock some sense into Ghaddafi; Reagan broke that sucker of blowing up airplanes, sure enough. But the French were and are always willing to sell out their real estate and anyone elses blood to despots in order to avoid so much as a stubbed toe or a hangnail.
4. Der Furhuer Shroeder is ruling the Huns now only because of wacko anti-industrialist Greens who hate the US votes. Support of the US is political suicide for him. Another ruler willing to let others die in order to stay in political power.
5. The French are a bunch fools who realize that every success of the US, exposes their inferiority complex as being well deserved and with a Napoleonic complex to be somebody on the worlds stage, but with the resources and intelligence but make that goal an impossibility without being part of a coalition of like-minded fools. It is convienent for them now that they find Nazis back in power next door.