So says this article in The Nation, by David Corn (via Where's the Soap):
Bush and his supporters often compare the struggle against Iraq to the battle against fascism. But did the people of Germany rebel against the Nazi dictatorship? Did the German military roll over? It was the people of France, occupied by a foreign power, who were glad to see the Yanks--not the Germans, who, like the Iraqis of today, lived under a brutal homegrown regime.
I'll add that by 1945, all the French were proclaiming themselves to be Resistants. In the absence of a sizeable Iraqi-staffed army fighting alongside the US and UK, it's even more difficult to present this war as a war of liberation. Yet, if you can pull that off, well, Libération is the name of one of France's most impressive daily newspapers.
