[FairOpinion]

It's a long article and some of the important details are buried.

But here is one:

"After a review of the ministry's spending, he said, he canceled $250 million worth of contracts with companies he believes were fronts for the former government or got contracts only because they were from countries friendly to Mr. Hussein."

THIS is the real reason, why France and Germany opposed liberating Iraq from Saddam.

[Howlin]

This is NOT news..........we here at FR knew about this LAST April!

Here is backhoe's master list of the articles concerning this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/898147/posts?page=1