Originally posted by AKIron
The French have earned the ire of the American people with their repeated attempts to thwart our efforts in making the world safer by eliminating or at least controlling ruthless tyrants and terrorists. Give us any excuse to shove it back down your throats and you can bet we're gonna jump on it. Get used to it.
Oh look, GWB being all chummy with Islam Karimov, whose regime in Uzbekistan routinely employs torture, imprisonment without trial and extra-judical killings. US aid to Karimov's regime has increased exponentially since Bush took office, which is kind of inconsistent with his crusade against tyranny, no? Why would that be? Caspian basin hydrocarbon reserves perhaps? Surely not, just as his cosy relationship with the equally oppressive House of Saud has nothing to do with US energy policy, notwithstanding their well documented connection to Islamic terrorism against which that of the previous Iraqi regime is comparatively miniscule in scale.
So spare us the moralising crap, the US decision to invade was firmly based on
realpolitik and the tenets of the doctrine of full spectrum dominance.
The French opposition to the same was likewise rooted in material self-interest. Failure to realise this just makes you another dittohead, Sorry.
