Explanation: After following the USA into Afghanistan over the Taliban harboring the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks, France raised some serious questions about the Bush Administration proposing to attack Iraq next. Iraq was utterly uninvolved in the 9/11 attacks, and Saddam Hussein, shithead dictator though he was, was not ideologically aligned with the Taliban or Al-Qaeda and unlikely to offer them aid. For that matter, the excuse given by the Bush Administration - that Iraq was supposedly developing 'weapons of mass destruction' - was unconvincing and unsupported by the available evidence.
Because France was not willing to play dipshit regime change games with the Bush Administration, a frenzy was worked up amongst US conservatives about how awful France was, and there was a short-lived attempt to rename French Fries "Freedom Fries".
France was right (it happens sometimes). US conservatives were wrong (I don't even remember the last time they were right?). Saddam had no WMDs or WMD capacity, and the entire ordeal in Iraq turned into a clusterfuck that got a lot of fucking people killed for no good fucking reason. On top of that, it caused the situation in Afghanistan to deteriorate, both by the funneling of extant resources into invading Iraq, and by the international hostility (rightly) provoked by the US invasion of Iraq, giving the battered Taliban a new lease on life.
