Posted on 06/26/2004 7:49:37 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud
Former CIA officer Duane Clarridge has maintained that economic interests were the real reasons France and Russia those countries opposed the invasion of Iraq. "I think the world needs to know why some countries didn’t want Saddam Hussein removed from power.”
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Hopefully it gets some attention but I doubt it.
Dewey Clarrige is Michael Rivero's hero; too bad old Mike is not around to praise Dewey!
I am hazarding a guess that there will be evidence of Russia, France and probably Belgium and a few others making big bucks illegally trading with the Ragheads in Iraq.
Of course, the U.N. won't be able to be bothered considering any of those "minor transgressions."
Sure hope Duane has someone watchin his six.
It doesn't take an intelligence operative to know this. It was common knowledge. Chirac hardly tried to pretend otherwise. The regretable fact, however, is that as far as the American media are concerned, only conservatives can be smeared with the oil connection. Thus, for instance, Bush was portrayed as the corrupt Texas oil man, even though Gore probably owns more oil stock than Bush.
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