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Saddam Bribed Chirac
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| January 28, 2004
| UPI
Posted on 01/28/2004 12:02:13 PM PST by jatfla
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:02:14 PM PST
by
jatfla
To: jatfla
Can't be - his motives were only the purile - I mean purest.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:03:29 PM PST
by
Dilbert56
To: jatfla
Iraqi govt. papers: Saddam bribed Chirac
BAGHDAD, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Documents from Saddam Hussein's oil ministry reveal he used oil to bribe top French officials into opposing the imminent U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
The oil ministry papers, described by the independent Baghdad newspaper al-Mada, are apparently authentic and will become the basis of an official investigation by the new Iraqi Governing Council, the Independent reported Wednesday.
"I think the list is true," Naseer Chaderji, a governing council member, said. "I will demand an investigation. These people must be prosecuted."
Such evidence would undermine the French position before the war when President Jacques Chirac sought to couch his opposition to the invasion on a moral high ground.
A senior Bush administration official said Washington was aware of the reports but refused further comment.
French diplomats have dismissed any suggestion their foreign policy was influenced by payments from Saddam, but some European diplomats have long suspected France's steadfast opposition to the war was less moral than monetary.
"Oil runs thicker than blood," is how one former ambassador put his suspicions about the French motives for opposing action against Saddam.
Al-Mada's list cites a total of 46 individuals, companies and organizations inside and outside Iraq as receiving Saddam's oil bribes, including officials in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Sudan, China, Austria and France, as well as the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Communist Party, India's Congress Party and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Copyright 2004 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:03:49 PM PST
by
Drammach
To: jatfla
Iraqi govt. papers: Saddam bribed Chirac
BAGHDAD, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Documents from Saddam Hussein's oil ministry reveal he used oil to bribe top French officials into opposing the imminent U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
The oil ministry papers, described by the independent Baghdad newspaper al-Mada, are apparently authentic and will become the basis of an official investigation by the new Iraqi Governing Council, the Independent reported Wednesday.
"I think the list is true," Naseer Chaderji, a governing council member, said. "I will demand an investigation. These people must be prosecuted."
Such evidence would undermine the French position before the war when President Jacques Chirac sought to couch his opposition to the invasion on a moral high ground.
A senior Bush administration official said Washington was aware of the reports but refused further comment.
French diplomats have dismissed any suggestion their foreign policy was influenced by payments from Saddam, but some European diplomats have long suspected France's steadfast opposition to the war was less moral than monetary.
"Oil runs thicker than blood," is how one former ambassador put his suspicions about the French motives for opposing action against Saddam.
Al-Mada's list cites a total of 46 individuals, companies and organizations inside and outside Iraq as receiving Saddam's oil bribes, including officials in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Sudan, China, Austria and France, as well as the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Communist Party, India's Congress Party and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Copyright 2004 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:04:07 PM PST
by
EggsAckley
(..................**AMEND** the Fourteenth Amendment......(There, is THAT better?).................)
To: jatfla
Considering France's attitude through this whole situation, I'm not the least bit surprised.
To: jatfla
Bump for later read.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:05:13 PM PST
by
TenthAmendmentChampion
(Free! Read my historical romance novels online at http://Writing.Com/authors/vdavisson)
To: jatfla
I fart in their general direction...
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:05:35 PM PST
by
2banana
To: Dilbert56
I can't wait for tonights talking heads to elaborate on this. Oh, I forgot. I don't watch them. Sorry.
To: jatfla
This is not news.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:07:19 PM PST
by
ppaul
To: Drammach
A senior Bush administration official said Washington was aware of the reports but refused further comment. I have been amazed at how much our President stays above the fray. He is always saying only nice things about everyone.
The dims realize how effective this is, which is why the breck girl is trying to be nice, too.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:07:38 PM PST
by
mathluv
Oops....Did that copywrite mean I wasn't suppose to post it? Sorry.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:08:27 PM PST
by
jatfla
To: Drammach; Victoria Delsoul; harpseal; Travis McGee; dennisw; veronica; glock rocks; JohnHuang2; ...
Such evidence would undermine the French position before the war when President Jacques Chirac sought to couch his opposition to the invasion on a moral high ground. A senior Bush administration official said Washington was aware of the reports but refused further comment.
Most interesting, though not surprising.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:10:48 PM PST
by
Sabertooth
(Take the Reagan Amnesty Pop Quiz! - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1065553/posts)
To: jatfla
Ex-minister denies Iraq oil claim
Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua has denied claims that he received gifts from Saddam Hussein in return for supporting his regime. Mr Pasqua rubbished recent reports in Iraqi newspaper al-Mada, saying he had "never received anything from Saddam Hussein, neither petrol nor money".
The paper printed a list of foreigners who, it says, received oil coupons for backing an end to sanctions.
Mr Pasqua denies claims he was given 12 million barrels of crude oil.
He told French television: "I have never received any gifts from the Iraqi government and I am not in the habit of making my decisions on the basis of any remuneration I might receive.
"That is not part of my ethics or my conception of things."
Mr Pasqua denied knowing that any such transactions were taking place in the 1990s but he said it did not surprise him.
"Former Interior Minister Charles Pasqua is not involved, but maybe other former ministers are involved," he said.
Mr Pasqua told Le Monde newspaper that he was not and had never been a friend of Saddam Hussein.
He said the neo-Gaullist RPR party he was part of at the time of the first Gulf War in 1991 pushed for action against the Iraqi regime.
There are at least 11 French names on the list of more than 270 foreigners published by al-Mada.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3435319.stm
To: mathluv
Can you say: "Something smells in France".
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:12:26 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Sacajaweau
And it is not perfume!
Rush also mentioned this on his show today.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:14:22 PM PST
by
mathluv
To: jatfla
Well, if Saddam gave the French a discount on more than one tanker full of oil, he paid too much. The French would've sold out for much less, perhaps even as little as a discount on one barrelful, so naturally does treachery come to them.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:17:43 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
(<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/">Miserable Failure</a>)
To: 2banana
I have an outrageous French accent!
To: jatfla
This act defiles the office France holds as a permanent member of the UNs security council. It is tantamount to treason - if the UN means anything to anybody.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:19:07 PM PST
by
reed_inthe_wind
(I reprogrammed my computer to think existentially, I get the same results only slower)
To: jatfla
No surprise, I would think anyone, faced with an invasion by the US, would try anything, if they thought it would help. France makes out like a bandit...keeps the bribe, and knows the US will do what we want anyway.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:19:08 PM PST
by
stuartcr
To: ppaul
This is not news. I agree. Saddam has been bribing Chirac since the 70's.
The French know and don't care.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:20:10 PM PST
by
Allan
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