France, Germany protect Iraq ties

The Washington Times ^ | February 20, 2003 | David R. Sands

[Indy Pendance]

France and Germany, the two countries at the forefront of opposition to the U.S. hard line against Iraq, have a long history of commercial and other contacts with the regime of Saddam Hussein.

TotalFinaElf, France's huge oil firm, holds the contract to develop Iraq's southern Majnoon and Nahr Umar oil fields, which could contain as much as 25 percent of the country's reserves.

[Grampa Dave]

I bought my wife a big supply of Shalimar perfume this Christmas.

She said, "Does this mean that you are going to boycott anything made in France?"

I said yes.

She said I hope this is over by next Christmas!

[Grampa Dave]

You should post this as a separate thread.

Do feel bad if I don't respond. I will be off for a few hours and all of tomorrow.

[Bob J]

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[ffusco]

I'd like to know more.

[Beck_isright]

You'd like to know more about??? Actually it's well documented all over history books about french turncoats pointing out their Jewish neighbors so the SS could scoop them up and load them into boxcars to the slave labor camps and death camps. And a chapter in france's history books you will find rarely mentioned. The non-socialist part of france is ashamed and the current government doesn't care.

[jedi150]

IT'S THE SMOKING GUN!!!! GERMANY AND FRANCE SUPPORT TERRORISTS!!!!! /sarcasm

NOT

Over the past few months things have shown up on the news about Iraq, N Korea getting components for WMD from guess who! Maybe the (some)of the French and Germans are helping these countries? It kinda stinks like both of them are covering their @$$e$.

[sheik yerbouty]

Highly probable.

[ffusco]

Take it easy big fella. I meant about the French inventing some kind of escalator to load them on trains. Was it a joke? I wanted to know more so I'd have another reason to despise the French.

[Indy Pendance]

Look at the time I posted this article and the time this poster replied.

[AFPhys]

This is THE single reason these two countries have been orchestrating the opposition to the US. Their deep connections to Saaadumb will be revealed, and it is not going to be a pretty sight for them.

[ppaul]

Saddam Hussein at a nuclear reactor in France in 1975. Jacques Chirac is at right in the glasses. Saddam wanted a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. France supplied its Osiris reactor which was named Osirak (Osiris + Iraq). It was being erected when it was destroyed in a Sunday strike (June 7, 1981) by the Israelis, timed to save the lives of the French scientists helping with the construction. See Israeli tribute to the raid and to astronaut Ilan Ramon who took part.

[Fitzcarraldo]

The view from abroad

"The problem is, war has taught the Europeans in general, and the Germans in particular, a different set of lessons than it has taught America in the last century. War has taught us that when you go to war, you win, and come out the other side stronger than when you started. By contrast, war has taught our allies -- all of them -- that when you go to war, your cities are turned to rubble and your population is decimated. Even if you win, you lose economically, and the bloodstains take a long time to wash off the streets of your cities and towns.

"War has taught my German friends one other thing. It has taught them that when you go to war, you're wrong."

--Clifford McMurray
(in a letter explaining why Europeans view American policy differently than Americans do.)

[jedi150]

Fast reader!

[Kay Soze]

Bump for my children of Nazis File.

[jws3sticks]

How quickly they forget!

They sure have been good buddies over the years.