[vrwinger]

Clearly, when American GI's do get to Baghdad, and they do uncover the Iraqi WMD's hidden there, and they do reveal France's role in obtaining them, the French will be in deep merd, so to speak. Why else are they acting this way?

[AmericanInTokyo]

They could well have made a deal in hell with Iraq. France could be hurredly asking, through its companies, to the Iraq customers, to have evidence of any French complicity destroyed; and the deal is the France would stall on the international front to give Iraq enough time. Iraq, on the other hand, may need many of those materials, machines, and what not, to fight when the great infidel comes. A lot of crap is going to come out over this. I think the French know their products, services and companies are 'toast' in the huge American market for them, for years to come. It will serve them right.