SICK French yobs daubed a swastika and vile anti-war slurs at a cemetery for 11,000 British troops.

The showpiece cenotaph at the graveyard in Northern France was smeared in red paint with the words: "Dig up your rubbish. It's fouling our soil."

Other slogans at the Etaples cemetery near Boulogne included "Death to the Yankees" and "Saddam Hussein will win and spill your blood."
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The graffiti was discovered by a shocked gardener and spotted by around 80 visitors. It was cleaned off the same day.

Roy Hemmington -- spokesman for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission -- said: "We are deeply offended. This is the strongest language and most vile graffiti I have witnessed at a war graves cemetery.

"The suggestion that the bodies of soldiers who died for France should be dug up is particularly foul."

Most soldiers buried at the cemetery were defending France at the Somme and Ypres during World War I.

Another 122 are troops who died fighting the Nazis in World War II.

Among the dead are a winner of the Victoria Cross, 217 holders of the Military Medal and 69 holders of the Military Cross.

A number had been awarded France's top military decoration, the Legion d'Honneur.
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The Sun's Military Adviser Major-General Perkins said: "It is despicable."

Appalled local MP Jacques Lang said: "It is an attack on the memory of the British and American soldiers who contributed to the liberation of our soil."

Police captain Thibault Martin added: "It is sick and cowardly."

The shocking news comes as a new poll reveals that a third of the French want SADDAM to win the war.

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