Why do so many Americans/Conservateves hate the french?

Not all Americans hate the French. I am a great admirer of your beautiful country myself and would like to spend all of my vacations there!

The diatribes about the French began at the beginning of the Iraq War, when the French president wisely refused to join the "Coalition of the Willing."

Many people in our country were rather hysterical at the time, boycotting and stomping Dixie Chick tapes, and the French refusal to go along with George Bush sent them into a tizzy. They decided that the U.S. had rescued France from German rule during World War II, and expected France to repay this with blind loyalty and a lust for Shock & Awe.

This resentment built into a feverish mode. Suddenly restaurants served Freedom Fries and everyone was supposed to switch to California wine.

Things have calmed down since then, and some people have even admitted how ridiculous they were. Unfortunately, some folks just never know when to let things go and can be rude to a French visitor. If you have run into this problem, my apologies.

By the way, thank you for the Statue of Liberty. One of the most beautiful sights of my life was a view from a boat in the New York Harbor, with that lovely lady lit up in the darkness and the blue light of remembrance for those who died on 9/11 streaming upward into the Heavens.

If the French like us so much then why didn't they grow a set of balls and help us fight the terrorists? I think that if the French were to actually stand up and not raise the white flag a the first sign of trouble they would get more respect. Until then the US, for the most part, will still see them as a bunch of pansies.

Because many Americans are simple minded hypocrites and think that because France once had dealings with Iraq that it opposed the illegal invasion of Iraq. In fact the US pretty much put and kept Saddam in power, supporting him right through the war against Iran in which he used those chemical weapons (who do you think gave him the technology?) and then turned against him because they wanted Iraq's oil... when France opposed the invasion many in the US, based on government and news media propaganda, decided that they had always hated the French (despite having only recently been told to have always hated them). Now out of bitterness at how badly the invasion has gone and it's ultimately destabilizing results for both the region and the entire planet, they resort to blaming the French and calling them cowards to avoid the reality of the situation: that those in the US who supported this invasion are hypocrites who are unable to calculate the results of their own actions nor capable of accepting responsibility for them.

This is getting old. This Franco-phobia, Anti-Americanism started when the French had Jacque Chirac and the Americans were getting ready to invade Iraq.

Hopefully, this died down when the rest of the world realized that the war in Iraq is a dead situation. And when the French finally elected a moderate for president.

Here's why I hate the frogs...The United States of America has bailed your home country out of two world wars and Vietnam and your countrymen (mostly Parisians) do nothing but disrespect the United States. As a world power France has not mattered since Napoleon yet you demand a seat on the U.N. Security Council. Who are the French to dictate our foreign policy? What do the French contribute to the "global economy"? What makes you people think you're sooooo superior to the rest of the world? Oh I know the answer to that one it's because you're "cultured" and "refined". Here's the fact of the matter if it was not for the United States you would be speaking German right now and not French. Pray tell how exactly did the French Resistance help with the D-Day invasion? What did they do go around the streets of Paris shouting "Vive la resistance"? That was sooooo helpful thanks now go home.

Don't feel bad about frog legs. We eat them in Kentucky too and this definitely isn't France. Even the anti-French hillbillies that go frog giggin eat them. There was a recipe in one of last week's newspapers for frog legs.

I'm American and I don't hate the French, but then I'm not a conservative. My favorite composer is Satie, my favorite painter is Pierre Bonnard, and one of my favorite writers is Louis Ferdinand Celine.

If the French don't like the American government, that is fine. They are a free nation and can do what they wish. If they even dislike the American people, that is their right too.

The French opposed the Iraq War and that made some people mad, but I believe the French position has been proven to be the correct one.

I guess what I should be coming right out and saying is that I don't think it is worth worrying about if some loudmouths bash France. Their opinion about France is less important than your own.

it is not the french ppl, but the french media and govt. speaking bad about us. now u have sarkozy who says he is pro-american, so things might lighten up for awhile. it was just chirac and what he would say mostly and de villepan.

I do not hate the folks, i simply hate the language. while i used to be going via Elementary and center college finding out it, i could not hate it extra. so its no longer the folks, its the language for me.

and the sad thing is WE NEVER HEAR ABOUT THAT. we get

1) trying to get rid of jim morrison's grave just to keep out american tourists

2) letting Khomeni take asylum during the iran hostage crisis. think thats when that happened

thats just two I can come up with. personally id' LOVE to see a massive campagin sincerely conducted by the french to reach out to us and let us know they really care.

Ever hear of a man by the name of Jacques Chirac? Take a look at his history of selling Saddam the nuclear reactor in the seventies, and his opposition to the War in Iraq.

Nothing personal. But we sure got shafted from Chirac.