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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Just_Observing who wrote (48119)9/29/2002 10:01:33 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Otherwise, they have further reasons to attack Iraq to rewrite the previous agreements with Russia, France and China.

Bingo.. and that's why the US is apparently offering guarantees that these 3 nations would retain their oil concessions..

They are obviously holding out for better terms.. But they should realize that the US is going to force either invasive inspections, or invasion itself...

And their economic interests be damned...

I just wanted to make it clear that, despite what the Australian article might have stated about the "real reasons" behind the war, some other PERMANENT members of the UNSC have equally greedy reasons to prevent the US from overthrowing Saddam..

Hawk
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