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To: Puddleglum
Here is the article Brit quoted from:
THE WEEKLY STANDARD

Money quote...Saddam:

As for financiers, industrialists and above all those responsible for military industry, the question must be put to French politicians: Who did not benefit from these business contracts and relationships with Iraq? . . . With respect to the politicians, one need only refer back to the declarations of all the political parties of France, Right and Left. All were happy to brag about their friendship with Iraq and to refer to common interests. From Mr. Chirac [now the center-right president] to Mr. Chevenement [the socialist former defense minister] . . . politicians and economic leaders were in open competition to spend time with us and flatter us. We have now grasped the reality of the situation [of France's support for the 1991 Gulf War, a betrayal in Saddam's eyes]. If the trickery continues, we will be forced to unmask them, all of them, before the French public.

I don't think this requires registration, but if so, this is one of the free articles.

130 posted on 03/02/2003 7:38:14 AM PST by Timeout
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To: Timeout; mware
Thanks for the link. I hope the major media pick up on this connection between the French and Iraq. Moral stand by the French my @ss! Thanks to the many articles posted on FR it seems clear that their pacifism has been all about the money for the French, Germans and Russians.
189 posted on 03/02/2003 8:27:44 AM PST by Puddleglum
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