... Juan, Drex I love both of you guys but please let me add my own comments.

Although this article is interesting there are some facts which are not accurate or more exactly some important facts which have been omitted:

As a French I have to react on the following comments:
"...the Vichy government of France aligned with its German occupiers."
This is a true statement but what is not said here is that the Vichy government was put in place and held by the German occupant. An overwelming majority of the French people of that time were against this mascarade government. The French resistance, who my 2 grand fathers and a lot of others actively participated to, in spite of its small means was an army that German had to fight everyday single. American and English pilots knew very well that if they fell somewhere in the occupied France and there were going to be rescued and hidden by the population until recoved by the French resistance and send back to England by any means available.

"France, Germany, and Russia, have been selling them weapons technology as recently as 2002..." another true statement but what is not said here is that, as much as I love America, it unfortunatly does not have a much cleaner ass than other western powers as regards selling weapons to dictatorship governments