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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jerry manning who wrote (296)	3/18/2003 8:54:14 PM
From: Chris O'Connor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7832

I made the mistake of trying to have an intelligent debate with this person. Please forgive me JM. Until his wife, sister or daughter is raped by someone loyal to Saddam, like many woman have been or until he has a child murdered like Saddam has done to so many, this clown will give excuses to leave this HITLER LIKE human being in power. He won't answer questions about how France and Germany need Iraqi oil and have financial deals with Saddam so they protect his ass in the UN. He lives in a reality where all people are perfect like the French and the US is bad. Saddam is a man to be trusted by people like X-thing(boy, girl or whatever you are). X, go live in his country and enjoy the dreams that many Iraqi's have under his regime that you can't enjoy here in the US. Go to France and let the government make deals with this GREAT HUMANITARIAN. The great majority of the countries involved in the UN don't support Saddam. The ones that NEED his oil and have ECONOMIC DEALINGS with him (France, Germany, Russia and China) continue to protect him. All I know that is if you are wrong, you will pay a great price in the future(I hope you and your children enjoy Saddam's mushroom cloud). That is a price I don't want to pay by not addressing the problem. Buy your French products and continue your support of Saddam. I'm sure you would have bought German products under Hitler! Please give me a list of more French AND German products I WILL boycott. Saddam is like most criminals and murderers. Until you put a gun between their eyes, they will laugh in your face and stick a knife through your heart and kill any woman and children that stand in his way. Please become a human shield for Saddam. Saddam is a man of great integrity, in your opinion, and people like you should make the ultimate sacrifice to protect him.

To: jerry manning who wrote (296)	3/18/2003 8:58:38 PM
From: Scott Bergquist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7832

When the going gets tough, "ex the unknowing" is reduced to weak, weak "so is your Mom" stuff. Intellectually, a 100% crater. You are right. Not worth another second. "ne pas valoir un pet de lapin"

To: jerry manning who wrote (296)	3/18/2003 9:30:13 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7832

TO ALL: France Exposed!!! Please Read!!! According to the CIA World Factbook, France controls over 22.5 percent of Iraq’s imports. French total trade with Iraq under the oil-for-food program is the third largest, totaling $3.1 billion since 1996, according to the United Nations. In 2001 France became Iraq’s largest European trading partner. Roughly 60 French companies do an estimated $1.5 billion in trade with Baghdad annually under the U.N. oil-for-food program. France’s largest oil company, Total Fina Elf, has negotiated a deal to develop the Majnoon field in western Iraq. The Majnoon field purportedly contains up to 30 billion barrels of oil. Total Fina Elf also negotiated a deal for future oil exploration in Iraq’s Nahr Umar field. Both the Majnoon and Nahr Umar fields are estimated to contain as much as 25 percent of the country’s reserves. France’s Alcatel company, a major telecom firm, is negotiating a $76 million contract to rehabilitate Iraq’s telephone system. From 1981 to 2001, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), France was responsible for over 13 percent of Iraq’s arms imports. GZ