"France is now showing a willingness to join the campaign against Saddam? Thanks for the offer, but I don't really think we're going to be needing all that many white flags." -- Talk show host, Neal Boortz, on France showing 'support' for the US against Iraq.

Just because France teaches their military commanders the proper way to surrender, they get no respect.

Reasons to hate France:

-- One word: Jerry Lewis.
-- The French don't bathe regularly.
-- France refused to let us fly over to bomb Libya. As a result our pilots, exhausted from flying around the whole continent of Europe, 'accidentally' bombed the French embassy in Libya.
-- France was a bit eager to turn over non-French Jews to the Nazi's during WWII.
-- France built that STUPID Maginot line along the German border, and declared it to be impenetrable. Hitler thought they might be right, so he simply invaded Belgium and went around it.
-- The French Minister of Surrendering Defense resigned to protest the US liberation of Kuwait.
-- The French harbored admitted murderer Ira Einhorn, because the US has the death penalty.

I'm sure there are many more. Jonah Goldberg once came up with his own list. Also, Bob from Accounting weighs in, and this guy came up with 101 reasons, but only published 12.