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Halt enquiry or we cancel Eurofighters
Telegraph.co.uk ^
| 12-1-06
| Christopher Hope
Posted on 11/30/2006 10:10:33 PM PST by xtinct
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Blackmail...
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:10:35 PM PST
by
xtinct
To: xtinct
Just issue the redacted version...works well in the US.
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:13:16 PM PST
by
endthematrix
("If it's not the Crusades, it's the cartoons.")
To: xtinct
"The Saudis are our friends.....The Saudis are our friends...The Saudis are our friends...."
We should have toppled the House of Saud before Hussein.
L
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:16:21 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
To: xtinct
The Saudis are understood to have already opened negotiations with the French about buying 36 rival Rafale jets. The Daily Telegraph has learned that President Jacques Chirac has been to Saudi Arabia twice in recent months to offer full French co-operation on such a deal.
Well we all know the virtuous Chirac would never overlook illegal activity just to make a few billion now don't we? /s
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:16:26 PM PST
by
Reagan is King
(Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it)
To: xtinct
I give this threat 100% chance of success.
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:16:46 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Democracy: The worst form of government, except for all the others.)
To: All
Well now, this sure doesn't sound nice.
It's hard to believe our friends and allies would
really say this. (Sighing, rolling eyes.)
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:18:31 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: xtinct
FTB. "T" stands for "the" or "them". The french planes' cockpits must have two large buttons: one pops out the white flag, and another ejects the pilot. Or maybe it is the same button, but acting sequentially [it is the latest, updated model, after all]. So let the Saudis fly those - much good would it do them, anyway.
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:19:32 PM PST
by
GSlob
To: Reagan is King
Those French jets have state of the art screen doors.
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:22:20 PM PST
by
samadams2000
(Somebody important make....THE CALL!)
To: xtinct
bump for 10 day followup!
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:22:55 PM PST
by
US_MilitaryRules
(Time to eradicated islambs and mooselimbs! GO PTSC)
To: xtinct
Blackmail? Nah. Just politics, ask the democrats.
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:24:02 PM PST
by
Loud Mime
(Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire)
To: All
ARTICLE SNIPPET:
"The contract supports up to 50,000 British jobs and there are now fears that the deal may go to France."
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:25:25 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:25:59 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: Loud Mime
I'd hope republicans know how to play ball as well. If they don't, then they are in even bigger trouble than I would have thought.
To: xtinct
They're being told they have to out-weasel Chirac. I can imagine the frustration I would feel if I was told I need to out-swim a dolphin. Not many winning options here.
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:30:16 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: Reagan is King
we all know the virtuous Chirac would never overlook illegal activity just to make a few billion now don't we? /s
bump
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:49:08 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: xtinct
If the Saudis cancel an ongoing contract I would expect there would be substantial penalties they would have to pay. A contract is a contract.
This will be a good test of British integrity... I hope they do the right thing.
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posted on
11/30/2006 10:50:07 PM PST
by
DB
To: Lurker
"The Saudis are our friends.....The Saudis are our friends...The Saudis are our friends...." We should have toppled the House of Saud before Hussein. Lawernce Wright's "The Leaning Tower"
www.amazon.com/Looming-Tower-Al-Qaeda-Road-11/dp/037541486X/sr=8-1/qid=1164957369/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-8924408-1599301?ie=UTF8&s=books
is a superb read which analyzes and details the rise of Islamofascism including the Saudi complicity and facilitation. The current "royal" regime is awful. Unfortunately, the alternative would likely be worse.
The west needs to open its eyes. This nightmare aint going away. Keep the military strong and the strategic oil reserve full.
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:19:01 PM PST
by
Maynerd
(Virtual Fence - only the tax dollars are real)
To: Maynerd
oops Leaning Tower should be Looming Tower.
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:19:48 PM PST
by
Maynerd
(Virtual Fence - only the tax dollars are real)
To: Maynerd
Unfortunately, the alternative would likely be worse. Not my alternative.
Just whack 'em all. Then let Standard Oil back in to run the oil fields and Marriot can run the now drastically reduced tourist traffic into what's left of Mecca.
Everyones a winner. Well everyone I give a damn about anyway.
L
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:27:54 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
To: Reagan is King
--Well we all know the virtuous Chirac would never overlook illegal activity just to make a few billion now don't we? /s--
Oil for Food, anyone? Nuke technology for Saddam since 1979? That's why I call him Chiraq.
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posted on
11/30/2006 11:53:42 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(I've had it up to my keyster with these leaks!!! - - - Ronald Reagan)
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