@lulu - Yes, of course. France sends troops (34 times in 35 years) into Africa; aids and abets slaughter on a genocidal scale; destroys a sovereign state's air force; decides to go it alone when others won't listen to their arguments; and they're the acme of international cooperation. The US sends troops into Iraq, after countless years and 14 UN resolutions, and it's an empirialistic, lone tornado cutting a swath of destruction through the world with a Hitleresque leader.

France guns down hundreds of civilians; lies about it; and then claims self-defense. The US inadvertantly, even to the point of self-endangerment, kills hundreds of civilians and it's unilateral slaughter.

I understand.

You know, until now, I haven't equated the Iraq invasion with France's decision to go it alone on the "science project". Despite efforts by others to do so. I have merely pointed out that France is quite capable of acting unilaterally.

In another thread, I have shown how France likes to meddle in the affairs of Africa. This would probably be the best place to show the similarities between the Iraq invasion and France's own military foreign policy.

Rather than take these opportunities to criticize your own government for obviously wrong policies (if, indeed, you consider military action against sovereign states and leaving the negotiation table when you don't get your way to be wrong), you defend it and call me a moron. Okay. I can understand that. After all, I did sling the first stone by calling your country irrelevant. Though, I think that's more a general insult than your very personal insult to me. No matter. I can take steps to educate myself. France, I fear, will always be irrelevant.

PS - I'm still waiting on your explanation as to why our constitution needs to be re-written.

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