I think you 'would' have made a fine fit, but as long as Chirac is in charge, you're going to pay for ever thinking of joining the US in Iraq by not being allowed in. I hold nothing against the French at large, but Chirac, he never forgets, nor forgives. You broke ranks, (well, with the EU, you kept ranks with NATO) and there's not much you can do to make ammends for that.