Vive Le French connection: backlash over the Iraq war damaged business ties. Here's how CEOs mended them.(GLOBAL) From: Chief Executive (U.S.) | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Chief Executive Publishing. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

It was a tense and angry period after the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003--and France was highly critical. U.S. tourism to France tanked. Angry Americans eschewed French champagne and wines, and even publicly dumped them. Cheddar was "in," camembert was "out." The U.S. Congress turned to "freedom fries" in its own cafeteria and some elected officials urged boycotts of French goods. If that hurt the half-million U.S. employees of French multinationals, too bad, said some. Perhaps most vividly, Condoleezza Rice said, "We should forgive the Russians, ignore the Germans and ...

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