Desire, speaking of a boycotts, I do not think I would have supported this idea several months ago. After reading
The French Betrayal of America, however, I certainly can appreciate American reluctance to support or promote anything French. And this book certainly provides any American with plenty of adequate justifications for feeling betrayed by the French. Furthermore, Timmerman, the author of this book, illustrates why Americans can no longer trust the French government especially when and where our national security is at stake. I think Timmerman raises some very valid and serious questions like “Should the United States depend on France for its defense in the event of a nuclear strike from a rogue nation? Should we continue to share our nuclear weapons secrets with a country that has increasingly declared herself to be America's enemy? Should nuclear cooperation agreements still in force with the French today be canceled in light of France's behavior?" Eric, you offer favorable hope. However, this book has provided me with a great deal of insights into understanding world politics in general and French politics in particular while revealing many of the disturbing facts below to name a few:
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·Documented in detail the "paper trail" of recent French assistance to Saddam's clandestine nuclear weapons program.
·How, despite France's nuclear assistance to our enemies like China, U.S. and French nuclear weapons designers continue to exchange secrets about maintaining our respective nuclear arsenals!
·How Chirac lied to Bush and to the public about the war in Iraq.
·Incredible new evidence of France's duplicity during the war -- including how they stood to gain $100 billion from secret oil contracts they had concluded with Saddam Hussein.
·Revealed how President Chirac personally told President Bush well ahead of time that France would be at America's side with Troops and even sent the highest military French commander to Central Command to plan with General Franks the use of French forces.
· How French news coverage of the Iraq war was not merely one-sided, but viciously inaccurate and openly anti-American.
·The prominent French defense company that shipped U.S.-designed laser designator pods to Iraq in the 1980s, compromising the most high-tech weapons in the U.S. arsenal.
·Irrefutable evidence that French defense companies were key partners in helping Saddam Hussein perfect the long-range missiles that killed U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia in 1991 and rained terror onto Israel.
·The top-secret missile defense cooperation between the United States and France that has taken off at precisely the same time the Chirac government has been undermining the U.S. on Iraq.
·Exposed as a fraud: the French claim that they were "shocked to learn" that the Bush administration was preparing for war in early January 2003.
·How French influence and oil interests were behind Saddam's genocidal campaign against the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq.
·Revealed how arms dealers made cash payments in Switzerland to French politicians on behalf of Saddam Hussein, in exchange for their support.
·How France's top counter-terrorism judge was ordered to stop cooperating with the United States in the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker, despite mounds of documents that would have helped the United States to convict Moussaoui of conspiracy to commit mass murder.
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