Oh, You Mean Those French Passports?

Oh, You Mean Those French Passports?
Just last week, the French were indignantly denouncing a "disinformation" campaign, they believed was being orchestrated by the White House, that was meant to embarass them. I'm not sure it's all that easy to embarass a Frenchman, but one thing there were angry about was a story that many Iraqi leaders had fled the country using French supplied passports. The French said that was ridiculous.
But over the past few weeks, the United States military has found about a dozen French passports here and there around Iraq, which could have easily been used by Baathists to escape. Undoubtedly a few were used just that way.