To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (153487 ) 2/23/2003 8:33:23 AM From: craig crawford Respond to of 164687 >> Yes we know of Iraq's close ties to France and Le Chiraq, the weapons merchants of last resort << knock, knock! is there anybody in there? wake up victor! who sold the nuclear reactor to israel while helping develop their nuclear weapons program? drum roll please.............france! did israel sign on to the US-sponsored non-proliferation treaty and submit to regular inspections? of course not, they refused! did the iraqis sign the non-proliferation agreement and subject themselves to UN-sanctioned IAEA inspections for several years? of course! what did they get for their compliance with the UN? they got bombed by israel with US fighters! they were inspected by the IAEA only four months prior and all nuclear material was accounted for and no evidence of a weapons program was found. let's see here. iraq plays by the rules and gets bombed by israel in 1981 with free US-supplied military hardware. israel doesn't play by the rules and is allowed to develop nuclear weapons in secret, with billions in US aid as their reward. gee, i wonder why arabs don't trust jews and americans!! apparently it's ok for france to arm the israelis with nuclear reactors, WMD and fighter jets, it's ok for the united states to supply iraq with the materials to develop WMD, it's ok for the US to buy oil from iraq when it suits us, but apparently the french aren't allowed to do business with the iraqis, even when iraq complied with the NPT and was inspected just months before being bombed. israel refuses to be inspected to this day and is rewarded with a multi-billion dollar allowance every year, courtesy of the US taxpayer. you and your zionist brethren are just a bunch of filthy hypocrites victor. informed individuals see right through this zionist hypocrisy and propaganda. it's a shame that most of america remains ignorant and uninformed, just like you.