[Isabo]

Aurel,
Although I live in Italy and was brought up in the UK both my parents were American and I am an American citizen.
You have been very vociferous in this and related threads on this topic and critical of America and American policy, but it seems, unwilling to accept that the French position is ultimately about French self interest. The pot calling the kettle black?

I have spent most of this week helping to sort the paperwork for some refugees from the Congo. They have some interesting comments to make about French commercial interests and France's support of a heavy handed dictatorship to protect French interests. As you have been so critical of the motivations for the attack on Iraq perhaps you would care to justify the French position in the Congo?