Originally posted by maria5583
There are so many inconsistencies in this post that I don't even know where to begin. For the record I am not French, I am Canadian, but I feel that I have to say something because some of these claims are outright ridiculous. First off, France like Canada have always been great allies of the U.S., make no mistake about that. But your best friends are the ones that tell you that you are making an ass out of yourself, and that is what the U.S. has been doing with this war. Iraq is on the verge of a civil war, which the U.S. can't control. The United States have lost many young men and women and killed many others and will continue to do so until they leave Iraq. And for what? WMD, that have not been found, and will NEVER be found because Iraq did NOT have WMD. They had them in the 1980s because the U.S. sold them WMDs NOT France. France has been acitve in the war against terrorism as has Canada but both countries know that this is an illegal war because it has no UN approval and that's why the U.S has not received the support that it expected, not because France and the rest of the world is anti-American. Although France is a ally of the U.S. as is Canada, it does not always have to agree with American polices because it might be hard to believe, but the U.S,. is NOT always right.
Consequently, these claims that France should help the U.S. because the U.S. helped France are ludicris because the truth of the matter is that France was in serious danger because of the Germans as was the rest of the world, including the U.S. And although I feel indebted to men and women like your father, because he truly is a hero, inspite of the desperate pleas from the Allies, the U.S. only joined the war after the Allies were seen as about to lose the war to the Germans, and the U.S. had invested so much money of them, and if the lost they knew they would never get the money back. Futhermore, Iraq did not pose any danger to the U.S. because it did not have weapons of mass destruction nor would it have had 3 by 2005 because they are very difficult to acquire. Only about 8 countries have them because they are seen as very destructive and are very difficult to build and even the richest countries in the world can't build them, let alone Iraq, and they are even difficult to acquire from other countries because countries are extremely careful with them. Although, the French have vandalized American properity, American's have done the same to French interests. Oh, and by the way, French fries are not from France but from Belguim!Huessin did NOT establish terrorist organizations that is the most ridiculous thing that I have ever heard in my life, who comes up with these things? Huessin's regime was secular in ever sense, and although he was an evil dictator that killed many people, there are worse dictators in the world. Ask Mr.Bush for their numbers, he is really good friends with them.
Maria, (nice name by the way) I must first say that I respect your stance on defending the French. I mean, we've been doing that for over 100 years.
Richard Perle points out in his book, "An End To Evil," (I know that word "evil" doesn't rest well with liberals when talking about terrorists) that your president, Jacques Chirac, often tells a story of how he came to the US to study at Harvard... and how he learned more from his weekend job serving sodas at a Howard Johnson's off campus. In 1953, it would be inconceiveable for a young Frenchman from a good family to take a job in France as a waiter... it was in America that good old Jacques got his first glimpse at equality. He was not the first, nor the last, European to be reinvigorated in his democratic ideals by the American example.
We have spent an entire century defending Frenchman and Europeans from imperialists, Nazis, and Soviets. Ironically enough, the first NATO member to be attacked, was us, on 9/11. We were attacked by al-Qaeda, a lone terrorist group, in a world with many terrorist groups. To think that the War on Terror starts and ends with al-Qaeda and bin Laden, that is a short, and wrong definition of terrorism. Saddam Hussein funded terrorist groups. He sponsored terrorist networks. And he sheltered terrorists.
Abu Abbas, the leader of the PLF, was given shelter in Iraq. Abu Nidal, the leader of the ANO, was given shelter in Iraq. Abdul Yassin, an al-Qaeda operative and plotter of the 1993 WTC bombing, was given shelter in Iraq. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an al-Qaeda operative and Ansar al-Islam leader, as given shelter in Iraq. Groups with ties to al-Qaeda, such as the MEK, PKK, Abu-Sayyaf, and Ansar al-Islam, were given sponsorship from Iraq. Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad, were given funds from Iraq. Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's #2, went to Baghdad in 1991. The secular Baathists had to work with radical elements for their very own survival.
Saddam was a terrorist. He slaughtered 750,000 of his own people. He was a threat as a state sponsor of terrorism. In regards to the WMD, well... Russia, the UK, China, France, as well as the other 10 nations in the Security Council, thought there were WMD in Iraq. Italy, Spain, Poland, etc etc.
Almost every Democrat thought there was WMD in Iraq. The reason for this is
SADDAM VIOLATED 17 RESOLUTIONS 333 TIMES REGARDING HIS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. He lost billions, on purpose... he used them, he admitted to using and having them, he detained inspectors, he kicked them out.
And according to FRANCE and GERMANY, he would have had nukes by 2005.
When the Soviet Union was sending nuclear missiles to Cuba in 1962, the US Sec. of State went to France to show them photos of this. The French leader threw the pictures aside and said, "If America says it is true, it is and America has the support of France." Today? Today French officials wouldn't comment if they wanted the US to win the war! They bribed African governments to veto our resolutions. French citizens vandalized American GI graves... the same Americans that died on French soil liberating you.
France's opposition to the war wasn't noble and peaceful. It was financial and cynical.
No wonder many people including educated Americans, which you probably aren't, think American's are extremely ignorant!!!!!
