Hey, they're consistent!

After the bombing of Iraq, danger grows of a US ground assault

Washington's assertion of its right to take unilateral military action to support its global interests has further inflamed international relations. The mounting resentment of many US "allies" was indicated by Paul Quiles, former French defense minister and current chairman of the French National Assembly's defense committee. Quiles denounced the US for playing "world policeman" by attacking Iraq without UN approval. He charged that Washington was deliberately weakening the authority of the UN as part of a strategy "to turn NATO into a military organization with wider aims."

Oh, sorry, forgot the date. That's from December 1998. Seems some people are truly stuck in a rut!