Kouchner backtracks on Olympics boycott

"When you're dealing in international relations with countries as important as China, obviously when you make economic decisions it's sometimes at the expense of human rights," he added. "That's elementary realism."

"Honestly it's very nice to talk about human rights, I've spoken about them all my life and I will continue to speak about them," Kouchner said. "But there are two sides to the coin."

Well there you have it all you France haters. The French are just like us after all.