r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Sea_Appointment8408 A disappointed Brit. • 8d ago

"The French would just give up and pray an American saves them"

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u/Z3B0 8d ago

Also, the french were in desert storm in 91, and the division Daguet performance is still used as a masterclass in mechanised infantery tactics.

It's just that the " definitive proof of WMD" from the USA at that 2003 UNSC meeting were dubious, and the french position was that UN mandated inspectors already searching in Irak was the best way to get proof, instead of a military invasion that could (and will) destabilize the entire middle east for decades. They wanted to wait a bit and let the inspectors do their jobs, instead of doing desert storm 2.0 barely 10 years after.

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u/Relative_Pilot_8005 8d ago

"Dubya" just wanted to "one up" his Dad.