[M. Peach]

What would France's motive be? With their involvement with Sadam and the oil for food bribes, why would they want to encourage us to take him out by giving us this excuse?

This does not make sense. This news item sounds like the setup to me...

[Arkinsaw]

What would France's motive be? With their involvement with Sadam and the oil for food bribes, why would they want to encourage us to take him out by giving us this excuse?

This does not make sense. This news item sounds like the setup to me...

The overall goal of France is to create a multi-polar world in which they, in control of the European Union, become the swing power. This requires a diminishment of the United States from lone superpower status to, at best, just another average "great power". They are perfectly willing to sacrifice a basketfull of Saddams for that purpose if necessary.

[P H Lewis]

Here's what the Italians think. It's the 4th paragraph of the article.

"Italian diplomats have claimed that, by disseminating bogus documents stating that Iraq was trying to buy low-grade "yellowcake" uranium from Niger, France was trying to "set up" Britain and America in the hope that when the mistake was revealed it would undermine the case for war, which it wanted to prevent."