Raoul:

Going to Afghanistan was no problem, admitted by the international community and approved by the UN.

Iraq is a completely different matter.
We're having debates over here on TV between pro-Bush and pro-Kerry americans, even in french, and it's heated to an unprecedented extreem.
Bush divided his country and united the world against him.

My response:

Maybe you might want to go back and review the European news when the U.S. was preparing to invade Afghanistan. Didn't see a lot of popular support back then.

In other words, most of the Left around the world was as hard over against the invasion of Afghanistan back then as they later were about Iraq. Marches, protests, leftist pundits wailing against war, you name it.

Raoul:

It's called freedom of the press.

Huh?