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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (25355)	1/7/2005 1:19:53 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) of 90947

Saddam and Chirac: 30 Years of Sleaze NewsMax.com Wires Wednesday, April 9, 2003 France has desperately and publicly sought a peaceful solution of the Iraqi crisis with a sole strategic goal: strong influence if not control of the world's future leading oil reserves. At the same time, French President Jacques Chirac has consolidated his status as heir of former President Charles De Gaulle's policy of independence from the United States. The Iraqi government remembered Chirac's predecessor Francois Mitterrand's opposition to allied action to evict Iraqi forces from Kuwait, before ultimately joining the Desert Storm coalition, and thus suspected France would eventually not use its veto power to block a second U.N. resolution. With good reason: If it were to have a stake in postwar oil developments, France must have realized it needed to be seen as a supporter of the "coalition of the willing." Although the veto option did not materialize, opponents of the Iraqi regime accuse France of duplicity, citing opposition to use of force against Saddam's regime as a prime example. They see the French challenge to U.S. hegemony as propaganda for Arab consumption, in an attempt to divert attention from France's own objectives in Iraq. Funded by the Genocidal Maniac Opposition leaders accuse France of freely violating international law and the U.N. charter when it comes to safeguarding its interests and argue that Paris' opposition to war was solely to avert its good friend and client Saddam Hussein's ouster. They point to a quarter of a century of such close relations that Baghdad generously contributed to Chirac's election campaigns and made annual donations to the Gaullist Rassemblement Pour La Republique political party, founded by Chirac. They cite mutual public declarations of admiration made by the two leaders during Chirac's 1975 trip to Baghdad as prime minister, a visit that ushered in the golden age in French-Iraqi relations. newsmax.com Furthermore, the report shows that Iraq gave 14 million barrels of oil to a French businessman considered "a conduit to French President Chirac." Of course, Chirac has always been a friend of Saddam Hussein - he even gave Iraq a nuclear reactor to produce nuclear weapons back when he was the Prime Minister. babsonfreepress.com

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