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Tom Friedman, the NYT author who is the source of most of tw's information, instructs you: "Things do not cease to be true just because George W. believes in them."
Freidman skewered [France's foreign minister] de Villepin for saying there was "no terrorism in Iraq before the war". Skewered him good with example after example of how Iraq was a center for terrorism. The only way to say there was no terrorism in Iraq before the war was to say that all of it was justified because it was done in the government's name.
If the French wanted to prevent war they should have put the screws to Hussein. They might have convinced him to step down without a battle at all. But they didn't, because they were in on the deal, for billion$ in contracts and fetid oil-for-food corruption deals which swayed their interests. So, instead, they helped convince him he could stay in power.
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