Best line I never heard before (via Jay Tea at Wizbang!):

former Department of Defense official Jed Babbin put it, "going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind."

Third, even if we had recruited Germany and France ground forces into the fight, US forces would be hard pressed to prevent mass surrenders of French troops to any German in sight. (And the New York Times would doubtless report the instance thus: "Entire allied brigade surrenders in Iraq.")