http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030321/pl_nm/iraq_france_expulsion_dc_5 I guess they were neither shocked nor awed.
Re: expelling Iraqi diplomats - why would the Bush administration make that request? There's no way - none - any of these countries would comply with it. Not a chance. So either this was just another example of this administration's complete lack of aptitude with international relations, or something else is going on here.