On the topic of punishing appeasers and rewarding liberation's allies, I'm in good company. Andrew Sullivan:

What a relief to hear the president forthrightly defend his decision to bar Germany, France and Russia from competing on Iraq reconstruction contracts. There is a difference between being magnanimous and being a patsy. Germany, France and Russia are completely free to donate money and troops to help Iraq's transition away from a dictatorship they defended and bankrolled. (They have, of course, delivered nothing.) But, after doing everything they could to undermine the U.S. at the U.N. and elsewhere in order to protect their own favored dictator, they have absolutely no claim on the tax-payers of the United States...They didn't just object; they opposed, plotted and lied to our faces. Forgetting this is absurd. Rewarding it is obscene.

We should never forget the laughable, transparent, almost-so-foolish-it-must-have-been-improvised suggestion from Dominique de Villepin that Saddam Hussein, Jacques Chirac's "dear friend," should declare weapons of mass destruction illegal in Iraq. That was the substance of their appeal. No offense to Bill Kristol, who suggested acquiesence, but his connection to the first Bush administration could not be more apparent than in this instance.