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Originally Posted by GunnyL  Stooping to mindless and baseless Bush-bashing? France has been mostly antagonistic toward the US at least since Charles DeGaulle was President. Bush was still shoplifiting M&M's at the local Stop-n-Rob.
Chirac got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, plain and simple. He flat out purchased UN votes against the US on the issue of invading Iraq, and he was selling France's vote to Saddam for promises of some lucrative oil deals if he could gt sanctions against Iraq lifted.
Yet not one peep about that shifty, self-serving twit out of all you Bush-hating tape recorders.
Interesting, that. |
Nothing mindless about it. Just an observation. Sorry if it hurts but them's the breaks.
De Gaulle was opposed to everyone except France, he kept Britain out of the old Common Market for years. Chirac was a Gaullist, he held interests of France before any other country. I suppose the average French person would see no problem in that. Sarkozy, while he is repairing the damage done before him, would do well to not get too buddy buddy with George, but then I suppose Sarkozy is preparing the way for better relations with his successor.