Article: France, the United States & Iraq: the story of the Iraqi adventure is not over, but so far, despite the capture of Saddam, the French have been more right than the Bush administration.

The rift between France and the United States that emerged during the run-up to the war in Iraq persists, despite various recent overtures from France. Even though the campaign of anti-French calumnies has ended, France's reputation in the United States has been damaged, and the French position on Iraq is still widely misunderstood. As the exclusion of France and other opponents of the war from postwar reconstruction contracts has shown, those who, in Washington, considered that the French had doubly betrayed the United States--by opposing a war that the "senior ally" deemed in its national interest, and by courting votes at the Security Council of the United Nations (as ...

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