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To: unclewest who wrote (8983)	9/23/2003 9:09:53 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) of 793689

Iraq is all about money for the French! Iraq has always been about money for the French. How odd. That’s exactly what a lot of people are saying about the Americans. We just want to lock in the oil and become the dominant economic player. If you look superficially at the heavily preferential treatment that Halliburton is getting (giving no-bid contracts to the company the Vice-President used to run would, in a 3rd world country, be instantly classified as overt corruption) you might even believe that. In both cases, though, the truth is a good deal more complicated, as truth usually is. If the French wanted to keep the contracts, their logical move would have been to jump into the American camp, send troops, and demand a cut of the action as a payoff, which would have been much more profitable in a post-sanctions environment.

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