The best thing to come out of France was the croissant...
and the Statue of Liberty......
France and England have tried to get the upper hand on America and each other for years..they tried war, funding war (cival war), and diplomacy (league of nations, united nations). America at first was a tool to get at each other, but then we became too powerful. Now we have more in common with England due to language and pop culture..so they are more of a friend.
France will stand in our way in everything we as a nation will do. period. The possible war in Iraq is about oil as far as the French are concerned because they need Iraqi oil. I still have no clue why America is going to war with Iraq unless we are going to use Iraq as a launching point for more wars against Iran, syria, etc....
The world has more important fish to fry than Iraq....
