I am deeply ashamed of this fact and condemn and specifically want it to be understood that as an american I find this despicable and consider it an objective and established fact that France was right about trying to keep us out of iraq and those American citizens that disagree are bad people BECAUSE they disagree and I want to apologize to France that they are Citizens in my Country in the first place because they are an embarrassment on the world stage and I Censure them and rebuke them for their fucked up opinions. www.ibtimes.com/...
http://www.gallup.com/poll/167390/decade-freedom-fries-opinion-france-strong.aspx
fter the 9/11 attacks, as the debate over the proposed invasion intensified, Americans soured on France -- Gallup’s poll tracked a one-year 45 percent decline in the number of Americans saying they viewed France favorably, down from 79 percent in 2002 to just 34 percent in 2003. A
Seriously that Public approval fell from 79 to 34 prercent a full 45 percent is Embarrassing. particularly because it's an established fact in my view and not an opinion given the light of how events have transpired ever sense that France was Right and was being a Good friend to us much like the proverbial friend that takes away a Drunk man's car keys before he gets behind the wheel of his car.
I know that JEbb Bush and the Republican party don't want to talk about the elephant in the room on Iraq, they Want to Talk about how it's supposedly Obama's fault for leaving too early. But they frame it that way for political purposes because it’s not good for the Republican party and is awkward for them if the Mistake wasn’t leaving too soon but What it actually was which was Going to iraq in the first place.
“At the time, the French government was making the case that an invasion of Iraq would incite terrorism. "Such intervention could have incalculable consequences for the stability of this scarred and fragile region,” French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said in a February 2003 speech at the United Nations Security Council. He continued: “Would such intervention today not be liable to exacerbate divisions between societies, cultures, peoples, divisions that nurture terrorism?””
And at the Time as it turns out the French were Absolutely correct. That’s what the Recent history is telling us anyways.So all disagreement is little more than American Hubris.
Not long ago, in the run up to George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, these same right-wing Republicans were screaming epithets at France because the country that today the corporate media remind us is "our oldest ally" tried to stop the war before it began.
The French case was that there was not a WMD threat, and that invading Iraq would lead to fragmentation of the country and trigger more terrorism.
Like a good friend who tried to take away the car keys from a power drunk U.S. administration before it got behind the wheel, France had the wisdom and forethought to try to stop the United States from its biggest foreign policy catastrophe since the Vietnam War.
And how did the Republican Right in the U.S. respond?
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives stopped selling French Fries in its cafeteria (which are from Belgium anyway) and changed their name to "Freedom Fries."
They vilified France because the French government had the good sense to try to block Bush and Cheney's war of aggression in Iraq through its United Nations veto power.
The United States had not seen such culinary propaganda since the World War One era, when the U.S. government's Committee on Public Information (the Creel Committee) sought to enflame anti-German sentiment by changing bratwurst to "hotdogs," hamburgers to "Salisbury steak," and sauerkraut to "victory cabbage."
The Republicans displayed the same level of hostility toward the French for opposing their war of choice in Iraq as an earlier generation of American propagandists showed toward Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Right-wing talk radio hosts organized events where their fans poured French wine down gutters as a symbolic protest against the French who dared to question the infinite wisdom of their Commander-in-Chief.
During George W. Bush's vicious 2004 re-election campaign against John Kerry Bush's Secretary of Commerce, Donald Evans, repeatedly said that Kerry "looks French."
The Republican House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay of Texas, began many of his Bush campaign speeches: "As John Kerry would say, bonjour."
At the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City "Democratic" Senator Zell Miller of Georgia received thunderous applause when he trashed John Kerry in his keynote address saying, "Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending!"
The same right-wingers that today are using the Paris attacks to further their shrill Manichean worldview denigrated "our oldest ally" for showing the good sense of not going along with Bush's war in Iraq.
I Voted for Kerry, That was the Very first time I ever voted and Particularly Disgusting attacks like this Xenophobic Francophobia made me all the more determined to do it because of the Quality of character it would take to make such statements in the first place, only a Despicable and immoral human being would expect me to me to join in with their bullying of the French for being CORRECT about something.
The republicans even after all this time really don’t want to address that the Mistake was invading Iraq in the first place.
They want to Frame it as if it was Obama’s fault for leaving too early. No. The mistake was the Dumb War. As he Called it.
No, the course of history has vindicated the french and done the opposite for those who attacked them at the time. They were Right long before they joined us to Fight with ISIS and they’re right today.
It was The american public and our leaders who were wrong.