Chirac stated that sanctions didn't work in Iraq. Hell no not when the FROGS were selling Saddam everything he wanted behind everyones back and taking a big cut out of the FFO program. If I was Bush or Condi when you shake his hand make sure you count your fingers after.
Mais non! Condi should be sure to freely give him at least a strategically extended one (in France the gesture is called "faire un bras d'honneur") and THEN conspicuously ignore these pompous idiots with their absurd delusions of Napoleonic grandeur. France is now just a sad, washed up hellhole run by a crooked buffoon who'll shamelessly suck up -"faire a la leche" - to any murderous dictator who will consent to line his pockebook, and the world knows it. No one except fawning junior-year- abroad-type girl reporters at the NYT gives a crapaud about that odious toad anymore.