Did Bush manipulate Iraq data?

[ALnitak]

And, as for Anti-US...  Who isn't?  Just ask the French.

I'm not a regular, respected LL poster, not even the only French here (CorwinBrute is, if I'm not mistaken). I could even have done as if I hadn't read that, or simply followed advices of my wise forum pals, that is : "never put your nose into political threads". But I feel like I "owe" you some explanation.

At a personal level, I would say that I'm not anti-american, and I find it astonishing some Americans (or most, dunno the trend of the day...) still believe France's opposition to a precise US decision/action meant France is a systematic anti-US country. Especially after recent finds (read : == NULL) in Iraq about WMD. Anyway, I will still drool for a long time at both your president's and administration's ability to endoctrinate (read "hide the truth, enhance it or whatever") his own country ; but that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

At a more general level, I find your saying quite dangerous, like a random pointing fingers at, description of a country as a whole. A common thing for all countries (yours and mine included) is that every people is different, entitled to its own opinion. If you imagine all the French were against this war or worse, are anti-american, I'm sorry to say you're far from the truth. And if you believe disagreeing about a specific case deserves an instant "anti-US" tagging, lemme tell you that's just childish. Last, assuming a whole people deserves the same treatment/tag is the first step to what is usually called racism. I hope you can live with that, actually I hope you can change your point of view one day, that would be much better IMO. Up to you.

Oh, forgot to say... I'm not one of those French who think this war was justified, as for the reasons that had been presented by your government. IMO that's just a question of protocol, like asking U.N. to follow U.S. to a war for a main, shiny reason A (Iraq owns WMD and supplies terrorist groups with that), whereas the true reason is rather B, or C (Saddam is an evil dictator, Saddam kills his people, we have to remove it, or whatever reason - oil let apart, if you want).