The French Betrayal of America (New Timmerman Book)

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THE FRENCH BETRAYAL
OF AMERICA

      EXPLOSIVE NEW BOOK SHOWS WHY OUR FORMER
          FRIEND IS NOW WORKING TO UNDERMINE THE
             U.S. WAR ON TERROR

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER KENNETH TIMMERMAN GIVES A
SHOCKING ACCOUNT OF HOW OUR LONGSTANDING ALLY HAS
BECOME AN ADVERSARY AND HOW AMERICA STILL
CONTINUES TO SHARE NUCLEAR SECRETS WITH FRANCE

       “Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an
            accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.”
           -Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, 1989-1992

Last year Americans watched with revulsion as French President, Jacques Chirac sought to rally an international coalition to oppose the U.S.-led war in Iraq. In March 2003 a French public opinion poll showed that 25 percent of those polled supported Saddam Hussein before the start of Operation Enduring Freedom. In THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA (Crown Forum; March 16, 2004), investigative reporter Kenneth R. Timmerman reveals why Americans can no longer trust the French, especially when our security is at stake.

THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA takes the wraps off the growing conflict between the United States and France. It also reveals just how deep the strategic cooperation between our two countries was during the Cold War. As THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA reveals for the first time, France was America’s closest and most effective ally against Soviet expansionism in Europe. This is what made their betrayal all the more shocking.

Timmerman lived and worked in France for eighteen years and he personally got to know virtually every French arms merchant who was selling weapons to Saddam Hussein. He has also interviewed participants in several top-secret nuclear exchanges between the U.S. and France. Among the most disturbing facts uncovered in these interviews:

Chirac lied to Bush and to the public about the war in Iraq
The French claim they were “shocked to learn” that the Bush administration was preparing for war in early January 2003. THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA reveals that President Chirac had personally told President Bush well ahead of time that France would be at America’s side.

The war in Iraq was indeed a “war for oil” – waged by France, not the U.S.
THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA reveals that Saddam had promised the French $100 billion in exclusive oil contracts if they succeeded in keeping him in power.
France urged Saddam to commit genocide
THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA reveals that one reason Saddam Hussein launched his genocidal campaign against the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq was to make their region “safe” for French oil engineers.
France helped build Saddam’s long-range missiles and nukes
THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA reveals for the first time – based on exclusive access to new documents provided by Iraq to the United Nations – that French defense companies were key partners in helping Saddam Hussein perfect the long-range missiles that killed U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia in 1991 and rained terror onto Israel. The documents also detail recent French assistance to Saddam’s clandestine nuclear weapons program.

Saddam paid off French politicians with suitcases of cash
THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA reveals for the first time how arms dealers made cash payments in Switzerland to French politicians on behalf of Saddam Hussein, in exchange for their support.

Chirac has blocked cooperation on a high-profile terrorism case
THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA reveals that France’s top counter-terrorism judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, was ordered to stop cooperating with the United States in the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker, despite mounds of documents that would have helped the United States to convict Moussaoui of conspiracy to commit mass murder.
President Chirac nearly went to jail for corruption
THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA reveals that President Chirac was on the verge of being indicted on corruption charges in 1999 until he cooked up an immunity deal with the head of the French Supreme Court, former Socialist foreign minister Roland Dumas.
France illegally sold U.S. military secrets to Saddam Hussein
THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA reveals that a prominent French defense company shipped U.S.-designed laser designator pods to Iraq in the 1980s that compromised the most high-tech weapons in the U.S. arsenal. When Timmerman first revealed that cooperation in 1991, he was subjected to a dirty-tricks campaign that included wire taps, accusations of espionage, and even death threats conveyed by active-duty French counter-espionage officers.

But perhaps the most shocking revelation uncovered in THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA is:

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS NOW OFFERING FRANCE

THE SECRETS OF OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE!

Timmerman reveals the top-secret missile defense cooperation between the United States and France that has taken off at precisely the same time the Chirac government has been undermining the United States on Iraq. Meanwhile, U.S. and French nuclear weapons designers continue to meet to exchange secrets about maintaining our respective nuclear arsenals.

Ken Timmerman has proven to be a journalist who is always ahead of the pack. In his previous book, Preachers of Hate, Timmerman was the first reporter to expose why the new wave of anti-Semitism displayed throughout the Middle East and Europe is a serious threat to America. In THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA, Timmerman once again raises some very serious questions: Should the United States depend on France for its defense in the event of a nuclear strike from a rogue nation? Should we continue to share our nuclear weapons secrets with a country that has increasingly declared itself to be America’s enemy?

About the author: Kenneth R. Timmerman is the author of the New York Times bestseller Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson and Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq. He is an investigative reporter with more than two decades of experience writing for Time, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Insight magazine, and Readers Digest.

      THE FRENCH BETRAYAL OF AMERICA
   By Kenneth R. Timmerman
         Crown Forum/ March 16^th, 2004
               ISBN 1-4000-5366-8
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