Winewood:
You should review that article, with a magnifying lens: exactly the same could be said of the US's power. There are some very clear exagerations in it.
I agree that keeping 300K+ troops isn't economical nor practical, but the US chose to put them there. The inspectors were doing just fine without them.
The point is that there were two options:
1-Let the UN inspectors do their job
or
2-provoke Iraq into either using those alledged weapons and/or remove the source of the threat (Saddam and WMDs).
France (and Russia, and many other countries) is opting for #1.
The US (and coalition) has chosen #2, and as a result, has made #1 impossible.
To state (or advance) that France is incapable of any type of significant defense is grossly exagerated, and only serves to demonstrate/express animosity over its position.
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