Interesting reading Mike :-))
I wonder if once you start to look at the interaction of people at these kinds of levels in government, you couldn't show whatever sort of 'connection' you wanted?
Of course, if it helps to feed / 'prove' an existing view then that's jolly helpful, isn't it.
Look at the Bush / 9-11 / Bin Laden / Oil Companies BS :-))
FWIW, I think the French are purely trouble-making for their own gain - they've long had an active arms industry and want to guarantee their own oil supplies.
They also probably want to make sure that Europe really does "vive la difference" when it comes to the US. In an enlarged, more federal Europe, the French powerbase would be diluted (about bloody time).
On a side note - any idea where the present day enmity between the US & France originated from? You two were pretty tight when the War of Independence was going on.
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