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  • Berlusconi calls US decision on Iraq contracts "logical"

    12/12/2003 6:22:35 AM PST · by veronica · 26 replies · 153+ views
    AFP/EU Business.com ^ | 12-12-03 | Staff
    Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the EU's current chairman, called Thursday a US decision to freeze opponents of the Iraq war out of reconstruction contracts "quite logical". Berlusconi, who supported the war and has sent Italian troops to Iraq, appeared to contradict criticism by the EU's executive Commission of the move by US President George W. Bush. "It seems to me that Bush has said he would be happy to have this possibility of collaboration if countries that have so far held back from collaborating (militarily) decide to do so," he told reporters here. "It's quite logical," he said, as...