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French connection armed Saddam
Washington Times ^
| 9/08/04
| Bill Gertz
Posted on 09/08/2004 12:08:10 AM PDT by kattracks
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posted on
09/08/2004 12:08:10 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Didn't we find when we invaded, new French missiles date-stamped 2003?
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posted on
09/08/2004 12:12:00 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
("With 64 days left, John Kerry still has time to change his mind 4 or 5 more times" - Rudy Giuliani)
To: kattracks
Mostly about France selling military and dual use equipment to Saddam from 1975 through 2002.
This is the country that Jane Fonda Kerry wants to trust to protect America's freedom.
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posted on
09/08/2004 12:17:09 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(GEORGE WASHINGTON is nothing like HO CHI MINH as stated by Kerry.)
To: kattracks
The French are not our friends. But sKerry will only act with their approval.
Blessings, bobo
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posted on
09/08/2004 12:17:57 AM PDT
by
bobo1
To: nuconvert; AdmSmith
USA, Soviet Union, France & Germany equipped Saddam with latest technologies and Weapons in the 1980s.
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posted on
09/08/2004 12:18:35 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Democracy is a process not a product)
To: MizSterious; TexKat; backhoe; GailA; McGavin999
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posted on
09/08/2004 12:19:42 AM PDT
by
Howlin
(I'm mad as Zell)
To: kattracks
BTTT; thanks for the heads-up.
BTW, did anyone see Putin condemn the west for asking Russia to negotiate with the Ruslan terrorists? He implied hypocrisy because we have not sat down with Osama. I was stunned. But, my brother was watching CNN, so I made him change it to SCIFI (it's more tactful than making him change his own TV to FNC). :D
I never heard a US official ask Russia to meet the bastards at the bargaining table, but that's what Putin implied. Perhaps I missed the press briefing.
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posted on
09/08/2004 12:22:45 AM PDT
by
andyk
To: kattracks
United States stood by for years
thank you president clinton for ALL the(NO) help in protecting these United States.
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posted on
09/08/2004 12:23:32 AM PDT
by
rineaux
(hardcore for W04)
To: kattracks
The oil for weapons disguised as food scandal continues to get uglier and uglier.
To: F14 Pilot
USA, Soviet Union, France & Germany equipped Saddam with latest technologies and Weapons in the 1980s
Yes, but this story is in regard to arming up to the 21st century, my friend. A lot of things happened since the 80's (the destruction of the USSR, the end of the Iran/Iraq war, the invasion of Kuwait, etc.).
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posted on
09/08/2004 12:26:30 AM PDT
by
andyk
To: F14 Pilot
In fact, you were put out of business (or at least had a mission alteration) as a result of those things that happened during the 80's. If I remember correctly (I'm just an AF puke), F14's were originally envisioned to eliminate (and protect carriers against) incoming Soviet bombers, using their spiffy Phoenix AAMs.
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posted on
09/08/2004 12:31:45 AM PDT
by
andyk
To: andyk
To: GoLightly
OMG, that's the State Department. They'd tell me to negotiate with my brother's cat if he wouldn't come out from under the bed to urinate.
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posted on
09/08/2004 1:00:34 AM PDT
by
andyk
To: GoLightly
What's your point? You were a little URL-heavy, and word-light.
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posted on
09/08/2004 1:01:29 AM PDT
by
andyk
To: GoLightly
BTW, thanks for showing me the bastards that asked him to sit at the bargaining table. LOL
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posted on
09/08/2004 1:17:41 AM PDT
by
andyk
To: andyk
The first actual combat exercise for the tomcats belongs to the Imperial Iranian Air Force in the late 70s and early 80s.
They were the first to use AWG-9 & AIM-54A against Soviets MIG-25s over flying the Iranian territories.
http://www.iiaf.net
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posted on
09/08/2004 1:23:49 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Democracy is a process not a product)
To: andyk
My point in posting the URL was to answer your question, what "we" said that ticked Putin off.
My opinion on the matter, the State Department is as good at ticking off foreign countries, as it is at ticking off Americans. Sometimes diplomatic words are undiplomatic. For example, I'm still mighty ticked with France. In my own undiplomatic way, I ask, who the F are they? True diplomacy has little or nothing to do with just saying the right words. As the old proverb goes, Walk a mile another man's moccasins, something State clearly failed to do.
To: andyk
To: F14 Pilot
No offense, but your point?
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posted on
09/08/2004 2:47:46 AM PDT
by
andyk
To: andyk
Nothing... just reminding a part of history ;-)
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posted on
09/08/2004 3:02:57 AM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Democracy is a process not a product)
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