Why should French troops be bound for Iraq? Or any troops, come to that? Given the number of posts on this and other threads, I think it's fair to say that there's some ambiguity about the case for immediate military action against Iraq (as opposed to, say any other country that has been in material breach of UN resolutions or which has developed weapons of mass destruction).
Just because the biggest kid on the block decides to throw his weight around doesn't validate his actions. Furthermore, the biggest kid seems to have decided that the UN is irrelevant, so our arguments about the interpretation of Resolution 1441 are pretty Aquinean!