France is not at all confused here.

The issue is much deeper than that, and doesn't really have anything to do with Iraq or Turkey.
For years, all the major decisions in the EU have been made by France, backed up by their 'poodle' Germany.
The reason this happened was that France and Germany between them had a majority on the EU commission, which is where the real power of the EU lies.

France got a shock in the last EU summit as it suddenly realised it no longer had the power to insist on changes to the constitution (Chiraq outburst number 1 to Tony Blair), and even more importantly was no longer able to dictate who should be the leader of the commission (Chiraq outburst number 2 to Tony Blair), because the newly admitted members of the EU do not share Frances views of how the EU should progress.

And now we come to the latest outburst, as France realises that letting Turkey into the club will dilute its influence even more (this time directed at Bush) ...