[Steve_Seattle]

"Absolutely, if France (and Canada, Germany, Syria etc) had not done everything they could to sabotage us at the UN, Iraq could have been taken without a single shot being fired."

This comment needs a sarcasm tag. If you're serious, I don't think you've been paying attention for the last eight months. There is no way the Ba'athists were going to give up power without a fight.

[Sunsong]

"This comment needs a sarcasm tag. If you're serious, I don't think you've been paying attention for the last eight months. There is no way the Ba'athists were going to give up power without a fight."

Of course they would have. If Saddam had surrendered, which he would have done had France (and the others) stood with us, he would have surrendered the army as well.

There is no excuse for the behaviour of France. None.