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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: chomolungma who wrote (68271)3/5/2003 12:47:50 PM
From: runes  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
<<France, Russia and China object to the war is that it breaks the oil deals they made with Saddam>>

And here you have an interesting dilemma. If this plan were backed as a UN solution with a UN backed provisional government then they would have a fair chance at either maintaining the existing contracts and/or be giving a fair opportunity to engage in new contracts.
...But, if they oppose and the US goes it alone, then their positins would be much weaker.
...It would still take a fair amount of diplomacy to get them out of their entrenched position as it would to get GWB out of his. But, I believe, this approach would provide major benefits to all parties to ease the policy shifts.
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