The damn frogs are trying to find a "graceful" way out, now that they've been rendered impotent.
Unfortunately, the French don't see it that way. They believe they have won a diplomatic coupe by isolating the U.S. and defeating us in the U.N. Security Council. They truly believe that their sophistication and superior sense of self have unmasked our President as the bumbling and dangerous idiot that he is. They believe that G.W. Bush has been rendered politically impotent. The French despise us.