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France has never been down with our military moves from Gulf War I to allowing us use of air space after Qahdaffi blew up a discoteque.
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And our relationship with France now is even worse than in the past, because of Iraq.
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Schroeder (at least as depicted in the American media) has been elected on an Anti-American platform.
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Yes, in part because of Iraq. Hence our relationship with Germany is also worse now because of Iraq.
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I think you are really giving them too much credit as far as how "open" they were/are with us.
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Regardless of how willing they were or were not to make concessions with us before Iraq, they are less so now. That's one of the reasons Bush was there in the first place, to try and reverse the damage he has done.