Hi Mqurice. France didn't target New Zeeland, but Greenpeace, not the photographer that died, but an empty boat.
Remember that they did phone a warning prior to the bomb set off, and the photographer went back inside because he forgot his lenses.
Warning before a bomb explodes strikes me as highly civilized. (If you really have to plant a bomb that is). The opposite being planting two bombs...
Not that I defend Mitterrand's commandos.(operation cost 1 million $) Though I had voted for him just prior, as he had promised "no more compulsory military", so I though it was a good deal. Well, he backed away, kept the money, the gun and my pregnant chad, but still dismissed all French military courts, which, at that time, was pretty philosophical, IMO.
Now, I could be a bit biased against those judges here, as a few years before, they had sentenced me to a full year of jail after a year or military service, in Germany (was in the Carribean then!), over a serious difference of opinion we had on a foreign policy matters, Irak being quite on top of my list.
Now, with the 453 nuke heads France had, I guess they felt they could burn a few, as to sound more credible.
Doing it upwind to your garden, because they said it was clean enough, was not polite nor efficient. They should have done it over Tikrit!
But again, they wouldn't listen.
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