Whoaa...huh,huh,huh....(Beavis and Butthead laugh) ,Yeah...Huh,huh,huh.... Let's spit on these guys.....Huh, huh, huh...

interesting

Well, this was thrown in obviously to be silly, but what what the hawks in this country forget is that the French government is right wing. The political descendants of DeGaul. When a right wing government questions the wisdom of an invasion, it ought to have some political capital. Oddly enough, the socialist governments in France have always marched with us, even in some questionable ventures.

Yup. They didn't want us finding all that stuff that Iraq wasn't supposed to have with the words "made in France" on it.

France was against the war for one reason:They had lucrative contracts with Saddam.So the French should cut the high and mighty bull junk and level with the rest of the world.Besides,why should it matter what the French think?If that is what we are basing our foriegnpolicy on,we are SOL(S--- out of luck)

Yeah, they might stop buying Jerry Lewis DVD compilations in protest.

And this mattered because?

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Why should a nation be invloved in a war their people and government don't believe is just? We wouldn't be invloved in a war we believed was wrong...believe me. I respect them much more for not getting ivolved than I do Tony Blair for getting his country involved in this illegal war. Also, just because we helped out France in WW11 doesn't make them obligated to help us out with wars they deem to be illegal. There is no logic in that. Just because this is my opinion does not make me "anti-American" either. What is more American than exercising your First Amendment rights?

Screw the French, if we didn't save 'em in WWII they'd be German! (am I'm 1/2 German!)

I think Frances view on this is very important as they are one of the most senior members of the UN and if they say you shouldn't go to war you should listen to them. and this section is stupid, its obviously just placed here for people to discriminate the French

Oh no - France doesn't like the war!!! I'm certainly against it now! :rolleyes:

France doesnt pay my taxes, so therefore, they can kiss my fat tax payin hiney. What they think doesnt matter to me.

France has a lot of issues of its own - and a few festering hidden agendas as well. Even though I have serious doubts about our involvment in Iraq, what the French think of us doesn't keep me awake nights.

I'm with lowrider. What could I possibly add to that? I'm not even going to pile on . . .

Condemnation from the people who think Michael Moore is the shiznit? Don't make me laugh.

Seems like France was right. What do the Americans say about this now..or will it be sour grapes as usual?

I'm sorry, but France gave weapons that were dated as late as THIS YEAR to Iraq. That, by default, makes their opinion moot in this matter.

Sorry France, you are no longer of any influence on the world. Your country is no longer a world leader. Maybe you were 30+ years ago. Now you have no more influence than Portugal or Greece. Eat your frogs and snails and keep quiet.

No, if it were only the country of France who were condemning the war, then this would not be a very compelling reason against it. However, most of the countries of the world condemned the war, including many traditional US alliews. Technically, I have to give this 2 stars, because who are France, really? But the reason should probably read "Most of humanity's condemnation of the war, including the Pope and all of our allies except Tony Blair", which would be the most compelling reason on the list, worth at least six or seven stars.

This cannot be a valid point because it has been proven that France has a bias in this matter. France, Germany, and Russia are making money with their ties to Iraqi oil and selling weapons to Saddam and his troops. They may truly not like war. However, when you have interest in a specific country, there is always the looming though that you are only thinking of your own interests and not the interests of your people or the world. Besides, I haven't seen a poll from France stating that a majority of their citizens disapprove of the war. That's just their officials talking.

We have save France so many times. They don't agree with war because they have never won one! Anyway, who gives a crap cares what those idiotic French have to say. They should try to restore their country to the glory it once had before they judge other countries' decisions.

Very few world leaders supported the war, and the ones that did went against the will of thier people to do so.I think leaders like Bush and Blair take freedom to lightly as a word.If they believed in freedom they would follow the will of thier people like Putin and the prime minister of France did.

I really don't think that we should NOT go into Iraq simply because the French condem it. The world's opinion matters to me, but the opinion of one small nation that really doesn't even deserve to have its veto power really doesn't mean much to me. Maybe if this were, "World's Condemnation of the War", then I would give it a five. I don't care too much for the French, but I'm sick of all this "We liberated them in WWII". Wasn't it France who aided us in the Revolutionary War and helped bring it to a close, thus ensuring the creation of the United States? Wasn't it the French who sold us the Lousiana Territory that doubled the size of our country? I think that we have forgotten that!

screw the french they suck

France sucks....they don't even doing anything but drink coffee....

France is supposed to be a free country, and they have a right not to want to get involved in any of our wars. Our nation had a lot to do with France enjoying what freedom they have today, so we should respect their wanting to practice that freedom. However, when they openly condemn our efforts or try to hinder us, they've stepped over the line. Where is their gratitude, and where would they be today if it weren't for the United States?

Screw the French. They are a bunch of shameless rat-bastards.

I don't think we should be basing questions of war and peace based on the French governments position. Indeed, to be against the war because the French are against it is ridiculous! I am an internationalist/multilateralist; I believe that major decisions such as going to war should be made in consultation with our allies who can provide diplomatic, political and material resources for a war. Democracy is on the march and it is better for us to encourage these types of institutions rather than totalitarian regimes such as Saddam Hussein's. Yet I simply cannot comprehend why the French would go against the United States so overtly. They could have simply abstained in voting for or against the war in the U.N. Security Council. Instead, they openly attempted to subvert American attempts to forge a diplomatic consensus concerning the Iraqi conflict. I understand that the world is concerned about America's power and how it can potentially be the dominant world power much like the Romans were. The truth of the matter is that we need the rest of the world. America has not really ever been an imperialist power, so I think that their fears are largely ungrouded. Granted, I think that Bush largely had already made up his mind to go to war before he pursued the diplomatic option. In my view, he should have been more attuned to the concerns of world opinion, but I don't believe that diplomacy is this President's forte. But that's not really the point. France's subversion of the second Security Council resolution did a lot of damage. The U.N. is going to be even more discredited after this, although I do hope that this will act as a catalyst for internal reform for an organization that indeed is a good forum to discuss the issues and to provide humanitarian aid and assistance in nation building. The UN in the long run is needed for these purposes. On a more tangible level, this will hurt US-Franco relations for the next few years at least. The United States and France have had many disagreements since the end of the 2nd World War when we saved them from Hitler's regime, but this really hit home. They wanted to subvert our power and for this they should be punished in some way. Their interests are not that great in Iraq; there was no reason for them to do that. In my view, it wasn't about French oil contracts and the such. It was an attempt to check the power of the Americans and therefore embarrass them internationally. Would a friend do that to another friend? I don't think so. I don't think we should treat the French as open enemies; indeed they have one of our oldest allies, but something needs to be said of their tactics in the Iraq war. They are not a world power anymore, so I don't think that they should be in the position to potentially veto an action in any world forum. At the end of the day, the French will return to the world stage, but the Franco-U.S. relationship will be weakened, and that might have consequences that are yet to be seen.

This should be included in the "Worsening World Opinion" category. That said I would like to include some reminders for people: 1.)They are the reason that we exist today as a country, both literally in that we couldn't have won the revolutionary war without them, and figuratively in that most of the pillars and ideals upon which our constitution was based orginated from French thinkers. 2.) America did not play that big of a role in WWI, we did not save Frances ass in that war, France and Britain saved their own asses while our intervention was minimal. 3.) We did save France's ass in WWII, but we also saved alot of countries in that war so it seems rediculous for France to be the only country that we feel owes us, they feel like weare equal because of the help they gave us in the Revolutionary war. 4.) We did rebuild France and the rest of Europe, but that was not a selfless deed. It was to combat the soviets, become the leader of the world, and also make sure that we ahve countries to trade with. It benefitted us just as much as them and so we can't hold them in debt. 5.) We sent Ho Chi Minh into Vietnam to destabalize French rule because we wanted the French out of South East Asia. After thousands of French died and Ho Chi Minh declared his allegiance to Communism we got invloved. After suffering staggering losses the French decided it wasn't worth it. After we suffered staggering losses we decided it wasn't worth it and pulled out. We can't say the French are cowards in that situation because by implication we would be as well. 6.) France set the precedent for military strikes agianst civilian terrorists when it bombed Lebanon after a suicide bobming. 7.) They have supported us with troops in the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, and Afghanistan. 8.) If Frances oil contracts negates them being a legitamate opponent of the war then the future money that we will make off Iraqi oil negates us as legitamate proponents of the war.

Wow! For once I can agree with BIGBABY! Really, who cares? They had their time as a superpower, and God knows what ulterior motives the sneaky French Govt. has going for being against this. That said, enough with the retarded "Freedom Fries folks. That's just stupid.

Seriously, who the hell cares? Why should we be stopped by a country who has forgotten that we liberated them? What gives them any right to say what we can or cant do? Just becuase a country has condemned the war dosent mean that we should not get out.