Is France surrendering to Iraq?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070819/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Answer 1

As far as I can tell, France is in a constant state of surrender to whichever country will listen. The only time they don't surrender is when they have a revolution...seems they haven't yet figured out how to surrender to themselves.

Answer 2

For the Ignorant amongst you with regards France and its postion with regards war, please read the following statistics and try to understand that the numbers once were living breathing people:

French Military casualties in WWI.

World War I cost France 1,357,800 dead,

4,266,000 wounded (of whom 1.5 million were permanently maimed).

and 537,000 made prisoner or missing -- exactly 73% of the 8,410,000 men mobilized, according to William Shirer in The Collapse of the Third Republic.

Some context: France had 40 million citizens at the start of the war; six in ten men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-eight died or were permanently maimed.

Approxamatly 10% of the active French population and 3,5% of the total French population died on the battlefields.

As a comparison, if this were to happen now in the United States, the number of casualties would reach 10 million. and here would also be 680,000 widows and 760,000 orphans.

Throughout Europe, the number of crippled soldiers amounted to 6,500,000.

Between 1914 and 1918, the drops in births in France is estimated at 1 million.

Regarding WWII, between 1939 (when war was declared by France and the United Kingdom) and 1940:

120,000 soldiers died, not to mention the number of French citizens who died as war prisoners, forced laborers, deported civilians or in acts of resistance against the Nazis during the German Occupation.

The amount of suffering occasioned by WWII in France is impossible to assess and should not be forgotten.

In comparision America has suffered nothing.

Answer 3

Iraq isnt invading France so France cant surrender. If, on the other hand Iraq did invade France then yes they would surrender. They always do.

Answer 4

Iraq is not an invading country, so I dont know how France will surrender to anyone when they are an occupying force. If things get bad for them they can just cut and run.

Answer 5

Absolutely.

The leader of France went to talk to the leader of Iraq. That must mean they are surrendering to Iraq.

Wait... Bush has also gone to talk to the leader of Iraq... That must mean that we have surrendered to Iraq too!

Answer 6

Would be a better question if France and Iraq were at war, or if one country was occupying the other, or if they were economically intertwined or somehow or another way dependent on eachother. Too bad this isn't the case, or else your politically-motivated insight might actually have a point.

Answer 7

The French management has been an government that has been jealous and resentful of the yank government for an incredibly long term. merely presently has the French human beings start to confirm the themes they are dragging their feet on are commencing as much as impression their u . s . - Islamic Fundamentalist - are ripping the way of existence of France aside with the drain on society and way of existence and their financial gadget. France is waking up, notwithstanding it incredibly is merely too previous due!

Answer 8

The story I read was that France was showing their support for the US in doing the visit to Iraq.

Answer 9

85% of Iraqi oil exports are under contract to Compagnie Petrol de Francais. A French oil company. The French Foreign Minister is there to ensure that Iraqi production facilities are up to the task of fulfilling the contract. It's the only dog they have in this hunt.

Answer 10

The French are good at three things:1) BO
2) Sex
3) Surrendering. Germany, Iraq whatever.