NYTimes.com Article: French Threaten Expulsions After IslamRadicalVictory

[Justin Mason]

geege said:

> and bush facilitated it. chirac didn't ASK for it - he saw it coming. "it"
> being backlash.

Definitely.   If the French had joined "the coalition", they'd have had
continual riots on the streets of Paris.  France has a massive and vocal
Arab population.

It's only the US and UK govts that can ignore the wishes of their
electorate so blatantly ;)

--j.