Damn, there a lot of liberals more pissed at the French than I am.

"You can't beat the French when it comes to food, fashion, wine or perfume, but they lost their license to have an opinion on world affairs years ago. They may even be selling stuff to Iraq and don't want to hurt business. The French are simply not reliable partners in a world where the good people in it ought to be working together.



Americans may come off as international jerks sometimes but we're usually trying to do the right thing. The French lost WW II to the Germans in about 20 minutes. Along with the British, we got into the war and had about 150,000 guys killed getting their country back for them. We fought all across France, and the Germans finally surrendered in a French schoolhouse. You'd think that
school building in Reims would be a great tourist attraction, but it isn't. The French seem embarrassed by it. They don't want to call attention to the fact that we freed them from German occupation.

I heard Steven Spielberg say the French wouldn't even let him film the D-Day
scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" on the Normandy beaches. They want people
to forget the price we paid getting their country back for them.

Americans have a right to protest going to war with Iraq. The French do not. They owe us the independence they flaunt in our face at the U.N. I went into
Paris with American troops the day we liberated it, Aug. 25, 1944. It was one of the great days in the history of the world. French women showered
American soldiers with kisses, at the very least.

The next day, the pompous Charles de Gaulle marched down the mile long Champs Elysee to the Place de la Concorde as if he had liberated France himself. I was there, squeezed in among a hundred tanks we'd given the Free French Army that we brought in with us.

When we go to Paris every couple of years now, I rent a car. I drive around the Place de la Concorde, and when some French driver blows his horn for me to get out of his way, I just smile and say
to myself, "Go ahead, Pierre. Be my guest. I know something about this
very place you'll never know."

The French, a third-rate power with a
third-rate track record since the end of WWI, have not earned their right to oppose President Bush's plans to attack Iraq." Now we know why so many
people have decided to NOT buy anything made by, or in France. Want to
join in this movement? Just do it.