And NO I am not defending their actions. I am just saying the French Government does not represent the true feelings of all the French people, just as Clinton did not reflect the true spirt of all Americans.
I have posted this before... exhuming those soldiers' remains and returning them to American soil is not just something we should contemplate because of France's outrageous behavoir at the U.N., there are other compelling reasons. Remember that those are Christian and Jewish graves in a land that is doing nothing to stem the rising tide of Islam. Those graves will eventually be desecrated; history has too many examples of this behavior to ignore.
Maybe we should put the question to our surviving WWII veterans. There's a big WWII Memorial planned for Washington, D.C. - but perhaps the veterans would prefer a different sort of memorial.
Overly dramatic? Perhaps. But also a very powerful message.
You bring into play an entirely different scenario then that proposed by the Congress woman. I interpreted the Bill as being a gut reaction to the recent public outrage of the decision of the french government to place the French business interests in Iraq over the lives of Americans. Thus I would oppose her bill.
However, if desecration of US graves was in fact occuring,(beyond occassional pranks) and the French government/police were not taking any action to prevent its occurance, then I would support a bill that allowed (and paid) for the exhumation of the remains.