MOUNT VERNON, VA. -- President Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy saluted the thaw in the French-American relationship on Wednesday, finding common ground on Afghanistan and Iran -- two of the most troublesome foreign-policy challenges -- and suggesting they even agreed on Iraq, the bete noire of Washington's dealings with Paris.

On a wind-swept lawn of George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation, the two presidents gushed about each other and the improved state of U.S.-French ties, using language that might have been dismissed as diplomatic hyperbole had relations not grown so sour after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.

"I get the distinct sense that it is France that has been welcomed so warmly, with so much friendship, so much love," Sarkozy said. "When I say that the French people love the American people, that is the truth and nothing but the truth."
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I guess the world doesn't hate us so much after all........

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Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on . Bush, Sarkozy stand on common ground MOUNT VERNON, VA. -- President Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy saluted the thaw in the French-American relationship on Wednesday, finding common ground on Afghanistan and Iran -- two of the most troublesome foreign-policy challenges -- and suggesting they even agreed on Iraq, the bete noire of Washington's dealings with Paris. On a wind-swept lawn of George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation, the two presidents gushed about each other and the improved state of U.S.-French ties, Rating: 5