(Doug Carter) wrote in message . com...
"Rufio" wrote in message news:7R6kd.246522$a85.209030@fed1read04...

France has also fought in, kept the peace in, or evacuated civilians from -

The French stayed out of Iraq because their corrupt government
officials were bought and paid for with Iraq "oil for food" money,
*not* because the French people are cowards.

FYI: Government corruption rating scores are given at
http://www.icgg.org/
(http://www.icgg.org/downloads/Univer...Release_04.pdf) for
different countries. France 2004 corruption index is 22 - down from 21
in 2000. For USA it is 17 - down from 14 in 2000. The best score it
given to Finland at 1. The worst possible score is 145 for Bangladesh
tied with Haiti.