French block airlift of British troops to Basra

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On 17 Sep 2003 04:17:05 -0700, (Michael
Petukhov) wrote:

French block airlift of British troops to Basra 16.09.2003 [06:41]


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If the UK public were to boycott French products like the American
People
have, the French People would riot.

Interestingly enough the French usually reserve their riots for their
own government and have a pretty good record of making their
government change it's policy this way.

Shades of the revolution and all that.

Peter

Wasn't France (not USSR/Russia) the first nuclear armed country to have a
military coup? Or was the Algerian revolution before they got nukes?

Is that why they get so upset about the US military stay-with-it? Their
army took casualties and had a failed colonial occupation in an Aram contry
that lead to the army taking over the govt to get out of the colony
business, and the US hasn't?