Oh give me a break, just because you've wasted whatever good will and sympathy there was by invading Iraq doesn't mean 'the world' (or 'Europe' as probably meant) wasn't there for you.
I remember being back in high school, and we were ****ing rooting for the US and its allies to bomb the **** out of Afghanistan and every friggin' muslim fundamentalist in the world, spending as much time as we could following the events on CNN in school.
No, I can't remember anyone I know saying you "asked for it" after 9/11, but since then you've pretty much hyped up the 9/11 attack to the point where Iraq suddenly was involved and 'the world' went "WTF does that have to do with anything?"
So no, in my opinion you didn't "ask for it", but you most certainly have asked for a lot of the anti-American bull**** that followed.
And get over Chirac for one bloody moment, of course there's some double standards at play here, it's not like France have actually invaded anything recently save perhaps for your Wine cellar. Ask yourself this, who would you be more afraid off?