French Fraud

It is no wonder why France did not want to invade Iraq. Aside from its financial goodies it acquired during the Oil for Food give-away, it could not handle a heatwave a few years back, resulting in the deaths of 15 000 people. Now it can't handle civil unrest. How useful would they be in a real war? Not very.

To paraphrase what I read in one of Karl Zinsmeister's books, a gun from a French soldier sold on e-bay would have the following caption: "like new, never used, dropped once."