Bush, Chirac Will Skip Louisiana Purchase Celebration

"'I am disappointed for many reasons,' Damien Regnard, president of the French-American Chamber of Commerce in New Orleans, said of the presidents' decisions not to attend the ceremony. 'It would have been a great opportunity to see the two presidents side by side. It would have been a great opportunity to talk about 200 years of friendship.'"

Yeah, Bubba, the Louisiana Purchase. Remember that from school?

Imagine what would have happened if France had never sold all that land to the US? Maybe today, the US would be a democracy?