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That strikes me as somewhat disingenuous. The Yen has always been more closely equated with the cent than the dollar

My comment was not meant to suggest, that the dollar is fine, because it has not fallen as much against yen as it did against euro.

All I was saying was that a mere ratio of currencies is meaningless. Both the medium and, more importantly, the median American incomes and, more importantly, wealth remain quite high. Especially among intercontinental travelers...

Although direct comparison with French is difficult — uniform statistics are hard to come by — there is no denying, that an American tourist walking around in Paris will be richer (on average), than a native pedestrian. They are also more likely to have cash on them and be more helpless in the street.

All of this would make it undesirable to carry a device, that would act as the "I'm American" beacon.

According to the French Ambassador in the US, France accounted for only 8% of oil purchases under OFF. The biggest recipient of Iraqi oil under OFF was the US which purchased 44% of OFF oil. Granted, he's not exactly neutral in this, yet I can't find any "official sounding" sources stating otherwise (no, O'Reilly and Coulter don't count)

Iraq never was a BIG business partner of France. They bought a nuclear plant and some fighter aircrafts in the 80's when they were the West's ally against Iran. That's it. This whole portraying of France as a sinister backer of despots has very little to do with facts and a lot to do with squelching dissenting voices.

I'm sure that's why France is the most visited nation in the world: http://www.ambafrance-us.org/atoz/economy.asp/

Could you elaborate on this ? I am serious about it:

http://www.ambafrance-us.org/atoz/immigration.asp

By the way, not to be picky, but you cannot "get european citizenship" (at least not yet), just citizenship of a european country.

I know. I meant that I have Italian, French, and Irish ancestry and I tried to acquire citizenship in all three. I was SO CLOSE to being able to claim Italian citizenship but unfortunately my mom did not claim hers. (Her father was born in the US, but had to be naturalized for some reason)

--mmkkbb posting anonymously because he forgot his password

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France operates the Phenix fast breeder , as well as having the only commercial reprocessing facility. For more on the French program, from an "Official View", check out:

Profile of Nuclear Power in France