From the AP:

Against the backdrop of war in Iraq, world leaders will issue "a message of peace" when they gather in France next month to mark the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings, the French war veterans minister said in an interview...

"There's a desire to gather on that day to say, even without saying it aloud: 'Never again. We are here so that there is a space on a global scale for peace,"' Mekachera said. "Otherwise it would make no sense. Why do all this if it is not a message of peace?"

Two world wars on its soil in the 20th century taught France there are no winners in armed conflict, he said.

"We paid a heavy price. The Americans, perhaps, had no war on their territory. Americans who did not fight the war, who did not come to Europe to fight, cannot perceive as much as we do the disastrous consequences of war," the minister said. "We became aware that in the end, those who lose the war and those who win it are all losers."

They'll never learn!