Now, I am from Alabama, so I definitely saw a lot of that "Nuke France" nonsense before the Iraq war. I remember the "right-wing pundits" screaming at President Chirac for not contributing soldiers to the Iraq War, even though he already committed troops to Afghanistan.But actually, when I went and visited France last year, I had an awesome time.I booked a hunting trip as part of my vacation. I wanted to see "Red Province France," since I've already seen Red State America.I rented a car and drove from Paris down to a city called Limoges. I stayed with some regular people I'd talked to over the internet. These were regular folks with regular jobs - believe it or not, France also has steelworkers, loggers, soldiers, cops, gun shop owners, and all the rest.The wine and beer was awesome. But the highlight was when we went hunting for boar in some of the forests around town. I had imported my own rifle, and the local guys had their own gun collections, and we bagged right up to the tag limit.The feast that night - just awesome. I'm talking about roasted boar, gallons of wine, big wheels of cheese, rabbit meat, quails, ducks, and all kinds of good stuff from the forest. Some guy even brought over some deer jerkey that he made the other day. After that, I drove east, visited the French Alps, then kept on going south until I got to the Medeterranian Sea. Some nice beaches - the women don't hide anything, if you know what I mean!Then I drove back up, dropped off some gifts from the folks I stayed with in Limoges, tried out some of the French I learned, and then headed back up to Paris for a couple days before flying back.Why would anyone here in America hate on France in this day and age? They've got special forces in Afghanistan. They've actually killed more Somali pirates than America so far. They've got a big population of gun owners (and handgun owners) who believe in the right to bear arms. They've got some awesome hunting. They salute their flag just like we do ours.WWII jokes are one thing (the war ended 64 years ago, by the way), but modern hate just seems ignorant. Y'all should visit rural France. Bet you'd enjoy it.Ah, that's another myth - "France will be taken over by Muslims".Actually, I met a lot of Algerians in France who were totally nonreligious. They drank alcohol and everything. Far from being part of a "Muslim takeover," they were adapting to French society.Like I said, you can't see these things unless you visit for yourself.France hardly "ran from the Nazis" in WWII - they lost 300,000 people. But at the time, the Blitzkrieg was unprecedented. The UK was only saved because it was an island.Get over it. Or at least research the activities of the French Resistance, which provided the allies with both soldiers and valuable intelligence operations.But anyhow - so what? How many people from the WWII era are even still alive? Did YOU fight in WWII?Didn't think so...

A lot of French people also hate on Americans.It goes both ways.

France is just another Islamic Republic.

President Bush Jr. started this lie when they did support and critisized his war.

Ignorance. 99% of people who say shit like that have never been France. I've been there, loved the history, it's a cool language, great place to visit though I was a bit disappointed with the food.

IDK I have always loved France, the language, art, fashion, cultureI hope to visit France some day, I'm saving for it as much as I can right nowpeople can be so ignorantthe US hating an entire country because of some of it's history and poor leaders? HMMM funny b/c a lot of other countries judge the US this way...

It's just that most people think of Paris when they think of France and the snootiness factor is high thereBoar hunting. That's different

"Freedom fries" anyone?I don't hate the French. I don't think about them much, though. (Although, Jacques Chirac did recently infer that he thought Bush was a lunatic.)I've never been to France, and it's unlikely that I will be going anytime soon, due to lack of funds, although it is on my list of "want to visit" places.

your last paragraph says it all in world war 2 they turned there backs and ran from the nazis im not jewish but there were many jewish people they could of saved along with many feench people if they didnt just run alot of people and there relitives find it very hard to forgive and forget and the french people are just plain chicken shits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

France is a great country and one of our key allies. Right-wingers think our allies are our slaves and should do everything we say without question. They're diplomatically and culturally retarded.