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Saddam Bribed Chirac
http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/01280002aaa05619.upi&Sys=rmmiller&Fid=NATIONAL&Type=News&Filter=National%20News ^
| January 28, 2004
| UPI
Posted on 01/28/2004 12:02:13 PM PST by jatfla
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
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bribery; chirac; foodforoil; france; iraqioil; saddam
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To: mountaineer
This is the bbc...how do we know it's true?
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:21:45 PM PST
by
byteback
To: jatfla
While we all know that this was the case, it is nevertheless quite remarkable that there is a paper trail to back it up.
Heads will roll.
Tip of the iceberg, Scott Ritter is next, BTTT.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:23:29 PM PST
by
kidd
To: jatfla
Perhaps France should be removed from the security council. Why isn't the UN investigating? Why aren't the "multi-laterialists" outraged and demanding and investigation? (sound of crickets chirping)
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:25:01 PM PST
by
rhombus
To: byteback
Maybe the Beeb has learned its lesson (I say hopefully).
To: jatfla
If found guilty, what will happen to those rats?
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:27:52 PM PST
by
Arpege92
To: jatfla
Don't worry there are no liberal to convict you. On Saddam he bribe literally everyone, even the pope and vatican officials. Nothing new, in that part of the world or for that matter anywhere else.
To: reed_inthe_wind
Like we didn't know it before, but the UN has been in the back-pocket of France for a long time. To me, this undermines all of it's credibility..what little it had. I wonder what Kofi will have to say. Thank you, God, for a President who blasted and then circumvented this corrupt world organization.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:28:35 PM PST
by
jatfla
To: Warlord David
On Saddam he bribe literally everyone, even the pope and vatican officials. This is idiotic. Any proof of this, or did you just have a brain fart?
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:31:34 PM PST
by
kidd
To: jatfla
geewhizbump
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:32:09 PM PST
by
tracer
(ay)
To: mountaineer
Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua has denied claims that he received gifts from Saddam Hussein in return for supporting his regime. And if you did receive such gifts, would you deny it afterward?
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:38:28 PM PST
by
TheDon
(Have a Happy New Year!)
To: jatfla
"I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!"
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:40:07 PM PST
by
TheDon
(Have a Happy New Year!)
To: EggsAckley
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.
Interesting if true. Muslims for Jesus
To: jatfla
Kinda puts a different spin on the Left's ol' 'no blood for oil' chant, doesn't it?
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:42:50 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(I'll go down with my fingers around a liberal's throat.......)
To: Dog; Howlin; prairiebreeze
FYI
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:43:10 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Join the dollar a day crowd now!)
To: Sacajaweau
I want to see the complete list.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:43:47 PM PST
by
VaBthang4
(-He who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps-)
To: All
It has been pointed out to me that Chirac is not specifically mentioned. Humph!? Is he mentioned in the French article? I don't like it that I may have made an incorrect assumption.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:49:10 PM PST
by
jatfla
To: MizSterious
FYI.
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:51:03 PM PST
by
Howlin
To: rhombus
Perhaps France should be removed from the security council.France can't be removed from the UN Security Council, because France along with the USA, Russia, China, and GB are permenant members of the council under the UN Charter.
To: jatfla
Whadda surprise - not!!!!!!
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posted on
01/28/2004 12:51:43 PM PST
by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Alec <a href = "http://www.alecbaldwin.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: All
Of course the reason Chirac built the Osirak nuclear facility for Iraq a few decades ago was for oil then too, so it is hardly surprising Chirac's government is yet again screwing over their allies and abusing their position in the UN for oil...
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