France opposing the United States brought oil deals with Saddam that would pay huge amounts of money to the French political elites and France in general.
Chiraq and his cronies are still very angry and blaming the US for them not getting their money.
Gee how lucky we are to have these brilliant elites up in their ivory towers telling us how wrong we are. Whatever would we do without the US and foreign media telling us that it is Mr Bush who is the true focus of evil in the world. Otherwise those of us who are too dumb to know better would be blaming those misunderstood terrorists!