The memorial at Etaples, near Boulogne on the Channel coast, was daubed in red paint with slogans including "Rosbeefs [British] go home", "Saddam will win and he will make you bleed" and "Dig up your rubbish, it is contaminating our soil".
Some 11,000 British servicemen and women are buried at the cemetery, most of whom died defending France in the first world war.
This story has been well covered online and in the media yet the photo is still shocking and our outrage is not spent.
Den Beste adds:
When in England at a fairly large conference,Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush. He answered by saying that, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." It became very quiet in the room."
Then delivers a coup de grace:
Tens of thousands of Aussies and Canucks and Yanks sleep forever in the cold soil of France. But there are no French military cemeteries in Australia or Canada or the US.
For this crime, for speaking the truth about French weakness and decline so eloquently by not making a sound, not even our military dead can be tolerated; the French must lash out and punish even those who gave everything they had for France.
Our war dead have been targeted because they can no longer fight back.
The culture of hatred sweeping France is now clearly evident to even the most ardent Francophile. One wonders if San Francisco's chic elitists finally understand with whom they have been sleeping. Most likely not.
The new third rail of American politics should be any endorsement or assistance to France.