>>>>The problem however is so deep for them ...
Hey, France sold millions of dollars' worth of sensitive equipment to six separate plants in Iraq for making mustard gas and nerve agents, that gave a capacity to produce of hundreds of tons of nerve agent per year.
France's Pasteur Institute also sold strains of anthrax and botulinum to Iraq.
France also sold Iraq high-resolution optic system for Missiles.
France also sold and built for Iraq the Osirak reactor along with about 12.5 kilograms of highly-enriched uranium reactor fuel; contract valued at $37.5 million. (also supplied three tons of heavy water along with the Osirak reactor.)
France also exported a DM2.2 million chemical weapon factory to Iraq.
France supplied inertial navigation and guidance system for the Condor II intermediate-range missile for Iraq.
France manufactured and sold to Iraq two electron beam welders which were found by U.N. inspectors at nuclear weapon sites; capable of being used to develop nuclear weapons.
France supplied auxiliary facilities for Tuwaitha nuclear center, including an effluent treatment station and a laboratory hot cell useful in extracting plutonium from spent reactor fuel.
France supplied radar technology used to convert an Ilyushin-76 into an AWACS aircraft; sold $157 million worth of defense electronics equipment.
France built Saad 13, a military radar factory, on a turnkey basis. This factory manufactured high-frequency military communication equipment and radar, under license for Iraqi. It was found by U.N. inspectors to have manufactured components for equipment used in making nuclear fuel for the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission. Also manufactured high voltage DC switches such as thyrister oblique switches. NOTE: This was responsibility for the centrifuge program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons that we have threads about!
So yes, it is a deep problem France has. One I would never be able to appreciate. It is called infectious greed. France made their bed with snakes. Those snakes are now biting.
Your post is worth noting, and worth appreciating.
No argument from me.
Nice research by the way.
bumping/pinging to your post, Calpernia
Should I add the threads from yesterday citing that France is the one that forged the Uranium purchase docs from Nigeria???? To embarrass President Bush? And lend propaganda about liberating Iraq?
Nahhh.
Good post.
Ties right in with what I heard... they don't want to crack down, it would upset the (Arab/Moslim) business associates of too many wealthy Frenck.