In article ,
"George Z. Bush" wrote:

"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Bob Fry" wrote

And another thing the French managed to do recently is avoid helping
to create another terrorist state in the Middle East.

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The reference is obviously to Iraq, where many people expect that, since the
Shiite faction comprise a majority of Iraqis, a fundamentalist Islamic nation
will eventually evolve from our ill-considered efforts to create a democratic
form of government in the Middle East.

The French would obviously have much preferred to keep on doing
lucrative business deals [1] with the, shall we say, "pre-terrorist"
state that Iraq was prior to our "ill-considered efforts" [2].

[1] Lucrative for French businesses and French politicians, as I think
we now are aware.

[2] "Ill-planned" or "ill-implemented" or "ill-carried-through" efforts
might be a more accurate description).