Regards, Ivan
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Ivan, you are on a roll today!
All those great articles!
It does make one wonder, why aren't these appearing in the US press, doesn't it?
Who woulda thunk?
Of course, the single largest share holder in Total Fina ELF is the father-in-law of Chretien's daughter. We mustn't forget our other erstwhile allies, the Canadians.
All this France/Germany/Russia/China/UN with Saddam corruption needs to be in RNC ads for the duration of the campaign. Kerry wants these country's vile leaders to decide on US policy!
The fruits of socalism...
Chriac will never admit he's done anything wrong. Never. He's mental.
The French in cahoots with Saddam? Get outta town! Take a bus!
I was there for a year and was truly disgusted by how many times I had to place demolition charges on brand new French and German made equipment that we had captured or had been abandoned.
A little trash at the end.
Kind of just puts a warm fuzzy feeling in your heart doesn't it? Confirms all along what many of us thought.
Excerpts from the article:
An Iraqi intelligence paper prepared for Saddam said his agents in Paris were "assessing possibilities for financially supporting one of the candidates in an upcoming French presidential election". The ISG spares French blushes and does not say which one. It does go on to say that "a number of French individuals" were also targeted whom "the Iraqis thought had close relations to French President Chirac". They included the official spokesperson of Chirac’s 2002 re-election campaign, two reported "counsellors" of Chirac and two well-known French businessmen with links to the president.What did the French get in return? "The primary motive for French continued support and co-operation with Iraq in the UN was economic," says the ISG, citing Iraqi sources. According to Aziz "French oil companies wanted to secure two large oil contracts". The deal with the Devil was done: in May 2002, 10 months before crucial war votes in the UN, Iraqi intelligence reported meeting a senior French politician who assured Iraq that "France would use its veto in the UN Security Council against any American decision to attack Iraq".
Chirac duly delivered in February 2003. The French were not alone in dealing with the Devil. The ISG report shows that, by the eve of war, Russia’s oil companies (and, therefore, its entire economy) had a vested interest in Saddam’s survival. These companies were being promised the world. In 1997, Lukoil won a $3.7bn contract to develop one of Iraq’s 73 oilfields over 23 years. In April 2001, Zarubezhchneft and Tatneft, two more Russian oil giants, secured an $11.1bn contract to drill in three other oilfields. So close were the Iraqi-Russian relations that a "female colonel in Russian intelligence" agreed a payment of between $15m and $20m in the year before war.
My first instinct is to warm up the B2s but then we'd have millions of the cheese eating surrender monkeys we'd have to deal with as POWs.