I was hoping some one would post some sort of joke.

Peter T. There would not have been a USA if we had not kicked the French out (with the help of our British allies :) )in the French and Indian Wars. Montcalm had the decency to die outside Quebec after turning savage onto the helpless women and children. If the French had won, we could have had the pleasure of living through the glorious French Revolution, The Terror and the wonders of Napoleon (whose tomb in Paris is a monument to bad taste).
The massive French assistance in our revolution (which had a postive result unlike the farce of 1789) was given because Comte de Vergennes wanted revenge against the English and to seize the West Indies.

The French lost so many killed and wounded in WWI because of the ineptitude of its generals and politicians. It lost the Franco Prussian War because Louis Napoleon was a fool and his generals were fools. France's record in WW11 was a disgrace. How many Frenchmen died serving in volunteer units that fought in Russia alongside their Nazi allies? More than died in France after June 6, 1944? But then everyone was a member of the Resistance. Ha. (The Bulgarians, whom Chirac threatens, at least had the decency not to turn over its Jewish citizens to the Gestapo. Would that La France, the land of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, had been so gallant. Mais non, the French were too busy pocketing the paychecks of German soldiers.

French hypocrisy continued in Algiers when racism and brutality could not prevent the first defeat of a Western army by the Muslims since the Crusades. The less said about Dienbienphu the better. Not to mention the force de frappe.

Chirac would be in county jail on corruption charges in this country.

Somebody some send in a French joke. Aside from the latest pronouncement of French policy by those clowns in Paris. The rats that roar.