Stop being a jerk, please. 1. The US was implicated in the little oil for food scandal, just as much as anyone else 2. *ONLY* the US is implicated in the multi-billion dollar fraud that is going on in Iraq today - the amount of money your companies stole since 2003, is *many times more* than what French, German, Chinese and Russian companies grabbed, combined. You know this, the entire world knows this. Stop being a loser. The simple point is that France and Germany were, like all normal governments, moderately well informed, moderately rational and moderately smart, and could thus warn you over the dangers of illegally invading Iraq. You just happen to have had the bad luck of electing an idiot, who created an idiotic government, with idiotic ideas, well below the average intelligence of the average citizen of an averagely developed country. Hence France's astonishment when it heard your governments silly and absurd ideas. Hence the Germans' need to scream - they could never have imagined that at this day and age, a government could be so dumb. But I understand that it must be excruciatingly horrible for you to admit this fact. It puts your entire nation to shame. From the moment on that you are capable of recognizing your mistake - as a nation - you can start to make a beginning of joining the normal, moderately intelligent nations of this world. For the time being, it is best for you to lower your tone, because you have a lot to learn. Reality proves this every single day. But about who stole what, we can only say one thing: American companies stole many more billions since they entered Iraq in 2003, than all other companies from all other major powers combined during the oil for food scandal. On that, you really have to stop being a jerk.