[aculeus]

Here's the entire quote from The Observer.

Iraqi oil, two-thirds of which is being snapped up by US companies, can only be paid for in euros.

Sorry but most people on this forum don't believe undocumented assertions made by the likes of the anti-American Observer. In fact we assume they are inaccurate.

[johnb838]

I don't think it's been a secret that Iraq was our 5^th largest supplier of oil. There was also a lot of pressure on the US to get rid of the Taliban before we did exactly that. What is important is that the US has been serious about sanctions and they might have worked if the bloody french and germans had not been cheating and going around them all through the 90's.

[zefrog]

Sorry but most people on this forum don't believe undocumented assertions made by the likes of the anti-American Observer.

Mouahahah. By opposition to the francophile Weekly Standard and its heavily documented permanent attempts to discredit the french no matter what they do or say.

If you really think that US companies have stopped doing business with Iraq, you're seriously blinded, pal. Maybe next time you will explain that Rumsfeld did not meet Saddam in 1983 and did not come back enthusiastic, and that the US have nothing to do with the gas which was used by Saddam against the Kurds, while you're at it.