[CHICAGOFARMER]

What your are missing from this battle of money.

France, Russia and China, have 40-60 billion dollars of contracts ove the next ten years. They don't want this war to reset the tables.

Germany and France has sold most of the oil equipment to the Iraq in the last ten years.

Do you now see clearly?

[cicero's_son]

You evidently misunderstand me.

I am not suggesting that France is beyond reproach, or even that they have a leg to stand on in this conflict.

Quite the opposite, I am suggesting that our criticism of them would be better grounded in realpolitik than in histrionic appeals to what they "owe" us.