America doesn't have a problem with the French only the people they sometimes elect. This all all started back in the early two thousands when it came out that a lot of the French Government Officials had their hands all over the Food for Oil U.N program with Iraq. There was a whole lot of fraud and skimming going on inside the French Government. Also the French oil companies had some nice sweet heart deals going on with the Iraqi government and war would have ended those deals. So when there was a U.N. vote for sanctions and eventually a call to go into Iraq to dislodge Saddam and the Iraq Military, the French Government balked so they could keep the money and oil deals they had going with Saddam pouring into the corrupt politicians pockets in Paris. There wasn't a disconnect between the French Government officials and the French people.
Once the the politicians changed in the French Government from François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac's rein with the elections of Nicholas Sarkozy and the present leader Francois Hollande, the cold shoulder the American people had with the French has started to thaw out as they say.
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