Night Train, for your question about the french who fight to the death :
during the WWII, they were still here, but :
thr french HQ was really bad, he did war like in 1914-1918, and the war had changed from 1918 to 1940.
the French soldiers were good, but the HQ used bad tactics...
All the French who fought the Germans aof the italians in the FFL (free french forces) fought with honour and courage, until the death : Bir Hakeim is myabe one of the more perfect example for it.
The Resistance and FFI fought also with courage...
Read some books about the Indochina war(1946/1954), or Dien Bien Phu (1953/1954).In all, you will see that the french soldiers, the french forces fought here with maybe more and more honour and panache than any other soldier in the modern history.
In the victories (Hoa Binh, Cao Bang, Vinh Yen, Dong Trieu....) they were great, from the french para to the rifleman from morocco. they fought like the greatest heroes.
And in the defeat (Dien Bien Phu), they were really heroic. 15,000 against more than 100,000; under the fire of the ennemy artillery, during several monthes of Hell, but they resist. more than 5,000 french lost their lives during the battle, 7,000 after, in the camps.
the Vietmih loses are unknown. Maybe 8,000 during the battle, maybe 50,000...who knows ?
(in Vinh Yen : 5,600 dead, 6000 wounded, 420 prisoners for the Viets, less than 100 deads for the french.)
even the Radio of Moscow, who said all and nothing against the french during Dien Bien Phu, stopped her insult when they saw that the French were heroic.
So, this kind of french is not dead...
But it is not the subject.
To answer to the others :
Eric :
Not one of the reasons, THE REASON !!!!
and after, you dare to tell me i'm stupid when I say that OIL is ONE reason of the US intervention....not The reason, moron, one reason for the french GOVERNMENT.
Exactly, respect the advise, not necessarily follow it !
you'r really stpuid...
So, for the laws : you respect the laws, but not necessary follow them...you respect the fact that you shall not kill, but you kill to steal althe same...
It is the same thing.
if you respect something that you do'nt follow, it 's like you don't respect it...
So, USA don't respect UNO (you meant it, don't say no)
We would condemn France's actions. The USA didn't WANT Iraq, just to get Saddam out of power.
SO, you - USA - make things but you don't want that other make them also...
You are hypocrite : "Let us doing war, we want it", but after, to other countries : "hey, why are you doing war ? you have not the right"....
And if, like you sad, the USA only wanted to get SAddam Hussein out of the power, why didn't they use special forces ? not a war, and the world would applause....You are so proud of them, the Seals, Delta Forces...why don't use them ? are you affraid ?
Instead of that, you did a war, which was ugly, and cost to Iraq thousands of civilians, and to USA lots of poor young soldiers.
So, the main US's aim was not Saddam...OIL, probably....