U.S. targeted EU on GM foods: WikiLeaks --'Calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU.' 08 Mar 2011 Senior U.S. officials in Paris advised the George Bush regime to launch a military-style trade war against the European Union for resisting genetically modified foods, according to newly released WikiLeaks cables. The then U.S. ambassador to France, Craig Stapleton, asked the government to penalize the EU and particularly countries that banned the use of genetically modified (GM) crops. The move came in response to a 2007 French ban on a GM corn variety made by U.S.-based company terrorist group Monsanto. "Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility, but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits," wrote Stapleton in a December 2007 cable.