Remember the Iraq oil-for-food scandal? The one that meant, in the eyes of the pro-swivel-eyed-lunacy brigade, that France was deliberately trying to avoid enforcing inspections in Iraq because French companies were cleaning up on the (presumably pork-inflated) work?

Two of the largest French companies involved – accounting for 20% of total payouts to French-registered firms under the scheme were, err, General Electric and Halliburton. But the cash went via their French subsidiaries, so it was clearly the cheese-eating surrender monkeys who were to blame.