French being...French?

I swear, these guys are just way to easy to ridicule. Caption from al-Reuters:

A French United Nations vehicle drives past a poster of Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Tyre, in southern Lebanon, August 26, 2006.
REUTERS/Ammar Awad

The photo attached to the caption?

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that a white flag that the Frenchies are toting? I know, al-Reuters has been guilty of rampant staging and photoshopping lately, but for some reason, I'm thinking that this pic's legit.

The French...aw, to heck with it! Why beat a dead horse?