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To: SmithL
ROFL

Chirac is just doing it for the oil. They should have waited for the UN sanctions to work. Violence never solved anything. It is Bush's fault. etc...

Anyone know the lyrics to Kumbaya??
15 posted on 11/07/2004 9:04:08 AM PST by Death and Taxes (Bush '04)
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To: Death and Taxes
Chirac is just doing it for the oil.

No. For chocolate. Seriously.

17 posted on 11/07/2004 9:06:03 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Watch out! I have bunny slippers and I am not afraid to use them!)
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To: Death and Taxes

Oil

By far the most important mineral in Côte d'Ivoire was petroleum. Petroleum was first discovered in the early 1970s on the continental shelf off the coast of Jacqueville, west of Abidjan. A short time later, a second field was discovered off Grand-Bassam, east of Abidjan. The discovery and development of the two fields coincided with the collapse of world cocoa and coffee prices in the late 1970s and was seen by many as the means by which the country could continue moving toward prosperity...

http://countrystudies.us/ivory-coast/54.htm


36 posted on 11/07/2004 9:52:34 AM PST by Future Useless Eater (FreedomLoving_Engineer)
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