Aux armes, citoyens!

Charlie Stross waxes sycophantic about France. One of his reasons is that France refused to go to war with Iraq. Oh so principled.

Meanwhile, the French were:

• Getting cheap conflict hardwood from civil-war-ravaged Liberia.
• Bombing the crap out of Cote d’Ivoire.
• Slaughtering peaceful protesters, also in Cote d’Ivoire.