[Defiant]

That's a start. I think we need to squeeze their oil supply after the war, do our best to prevent aerospace and auto sales, bring down the EU, Nato and the UN, and release all the info we have about Chirac's corruption and his collaboration with Saddam. The post-Iraq security and trade world will exclude France.

That's what I hope, anyway.

[11B3]

What do you think of my theory above?

[kabar]

"A new Iraqi government should not honor any of these contracts, signed against the interests of the Iraqi people. The new Iraqi government should respect those who stood by us, and not those who stood beside the dictator," added Salih, who is prime minister in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan government that controls Iraq's eastern Kurdish area.

Russian and French oil corporations have each signed draft contracts with Iraq, to come into force only when the United Nations sanctions are lifted, for exploration, development and exploitation of the country's energy resources -- which geologists believe may be the world's second largest after Saudi Arabia. The value of the draft contracts, if fully taken up, is estimated to have a potential of more than $20 billion.