Sure, and maybe we can enact "slave reparations" while we're on the topic of the government deciding policy over things people did two centuries ago, rather than how their descendants behave today.
As for me, find me someone alive TODAY who was forced into slave labor on a plantation, and find me some brave French royal who sacrificed selflessly for american independence, and I will be more than happy to compensate them. But since all those people have been dead for centuries, I don't "owe" their descendants a damn thing.
Nor did they owe us assistance in a war that was not of their choosing. It was our decision to invade Iraq. They saw no need to go to war with Iraq. They were our allies in the Gulf War.