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you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. By the way, the difference between going after Hitler and going after Saddam is that Hitler actually declared war on us, and with his V2 rockets he had a real chance of actually being able to strike at us. War with him was justified. Saddam didn't declare war on us, and Hitler's V2 rockets were far and away superior to Saddam's little toy missiles that couldn't even travel 100 miles. In short, the dude was not a threat to us, hitler was.
As for why some americans hate france, let's not beat around the Bush. It's because they're idiots. They've bought into the president's bullshit statement way back before the war started that "anyone who is not with us, is against us." They then bought into the president's bullshit about renaming food with "french" in it (freedom toast on Air Force One, freedom fries, etc).
Are they really mad at france? Probably not. They're just sheep who are following the leader no matter what he does or says.
If they are mad at france, then they're unamerican because France chose not to get involved, and freedom of choice is supposed to be an american value. How we can invade a sovereign nation to impose american values on it while making a pariah out of another nation for expressing american values is beyond me.
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