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Reading the history of the Vichy French, this doesn't surprise me. Both the Vichy French and the current day French (not much difference) are motivated by a centuries old hate of Britain (and by extension, America). During WWII they collaborated with the Germans because their insane hatred for the British overrode the fact that it was the Germans that conquered them. Amazingly the French are still pissed off by the fact that they lost a series of wars to the British centuries ago. Hey France! That was way back in the past! Get over it.

Top Frenchies were also collaborators with the Germans. This includes one of their past anti-American socialist presidents (Mitterand) who worked in the Vichy government and that darling of leftist intellectuals, Jean-Paul Sarter. How the left looks upon Sartre as some great philosopher, I don't know because he also collaborated with the Germans.

And now the French feel it is more "honorable" to collaborate with the Islamofacsists. Irrational anti-British and anti-American feelings overrides everything for the French.

And that idiot, John F-ing Kerry still thinks we should have sought French approval to take action on Iraq? What a moron!

I am amazed by the amount of stupidities one can find in a post a soon as the word 'FRANCE' is in the title.
French bashing has become such an easy sport that the article could be about any subject, the same arguments will come back: worms, islamists, Vichy, blah blah blah....

Let's consider the facts and only the facts. The US asked, on their own intelligence reports, the french government to cancel some flights. Chirac and Raffarin did so. Impossible to know if the allegations were legitimate or not, it doesn't even really matter, the partnership worked very well. Do you think the french are that stupid as to release potential terrorists?

France has some of the best intelligence and secret services in the world. They have infiltrated all the sensitive communities. And it is only through collaboration that future international terrorist plots can be avoided.

Relying exclusively on national american intelligence can lead to the catastrophes we have seen in the past. 9/11 happened with american planes, taking off from american airports, with terrorists cleared by american agents. Let's not forget it and make sure it never happens again.