Posted on 03/13/2003 9:51:17 AM PST by kattracks
Saddam Hussein went to France, by way of China and Syria, and got the parts for his long-range ballistic missiles.
No, not the ridiculous "Al Samoud" missiles, whose name sounds like a bad Americanization of a Muslim one ("Do you know Al? Al Samoud?").
We're talking about the missiles to which Saddam himself alluded when he said that destruction of the Al Samoud 2s was not of consequence. He said that Iraq had other ways to protect itself.
Indeed it does.
William Safire, writing in today's NY Times, tells us that Qilu Chemicals, a leading manufacturer of a clear liquid rubber named hydroxy terminated polybutadiene, known in the advanced-rocket industry as HTPB, sold the substance to a French middleman, CIS Paris, which Safire describes as "a Parisian broker that is active in dealings of many kinds with Baghdad."
Safire writes that the CIS director "is familiar with the order but denies being the agent," so we know the order took place.
But the U.N., which France is trying to use as a leash on the U.S., has to specifically approve such a transaction with Iraq.
Well, France and Iraq can't be bothered with that, so they had the shipment sent from China to Syria, which has been said to be hiding Saddam's weapons, to be received by yet another company that acts for the Iraqi missile industry.
The rocket fuel was then simply trucked across the very long border Syria shares with Iraq, and no one was the wiser.
Until now.
Safire continued:
I'm also told that a contract was signed last April in Paris for five tons of 99% unsymmetric dimethylhydrazine, another advanced missile fuel, which is produced by France's Société Nationale des Poudre et Explosifs."In addition, Iraqi attempts to buy an oxidizer for solid propellant missiles, ammonium perchlorate, were successful, at least on paper. Both chemicals, like HTPB, require explicit approval by the U.N. Sanctions Committee before they can be sold to Iraq.
Which they were not.
Safire suggests that perhaps the U.N. inspectors, under whose "watchful eyes" all this has occurred, look at Iraq's El Sirat trading company and its affiliate, the Gudia Bureau, with respect to these dealings.
But they won't.
Hans Blix was put into power by the very nations that now oppose the U.S. at the U.N., and he is not about to bite the hand that feeds him.
Meanwhile, France is actively arming Saddam and apparently trying to create a situation where Saddam will have the ability to pile up U.S. and British bodybags should we invade.
Just why is France on the Security Council? The only country to which it provides security is apparently Iraq.
Effete is a French word.
rapprochement (something we will NOT have with the french);
detente;
coup d'etat (something we don't have, but frenchlings participate in);
Vichy france;
lingua franca (for English, bwahaaahaaaa!);
malaise (a favorite of Carter);
Words or phrases coined by Americans, for which the french have no concept:
Mutual Assured Destruction;
Mother of All Bombs;
Unconditional Victory;
Total War;
"Ich bin ein Berliner" (french version is to stand at the Eiffel Tower and proclaim the same thing)
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" (french version is "Mr. Gorbachev, can I sell you some bricks?");
"Lafayette, we are here";
"De Gaulle, we are leaving";
"Chirac, we are coming back";
"Oops, sorry about that embassy";
Lead, follow or get out of the way;
Warhead
Honor, pride, loyalty, gratitude...etc., etc.
We do know the word surrender, it's what all our enemies are required to do. To the french, it's a genetic predisposition that can only be overcome by growing up in Louisiana.
Mon dieu! Now if only they could come up with a word for "deodorant".
Oh, and I learned this in Mr. Wagner's AP History class a long time ago. Americans mostly ignore this small mistake, it's little known. Kinda proves the point--we don't care if we butcher somebody's language, we can barely be bothered to learn them to begin with. After all, we speak the lingua franca.
Champagne is somehow protected by the french, so if it's made here, it has to be called "sparkling wine". I say we pass a law revoking whatever quirk of international trademark allows them to do this, and allow our wineries to make "Non-French Champagne", or "California Champagne". That will really tee them off.
Part of the Francophile area of influence included islamic/arabic nations of Mediterranea. Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, division of the Ottoman Empire.
Successively, spreading across sub-Saharan Africa from it's colonies, France has incorporated into its "sphere" the Sudan.
Uniting the mediterranean region in a single sphere of political interest would make France (and their ally, Germany) major players on the world stage. North Africa was always a goal of Napoleon and later of Hitler.
My point: imagine France as an active player WITH Iraq, the Arabs, Al Qaeda in attacks on the US and Britain.
Is there any kind of support for such a theory?
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