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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Techplayer who wrote (10010)	3/23/2003 7:40:47 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

" agree with your point regarding Europe as well. Ultimately, the fact that France (and apparently Russia) have been supplying Iraq with weapons or components of weapons throughout the inspection process has permanently undermined the UN and lead to our activities in Iraq. " you have to do some reading between the lines here, but basically it's oil and potential economic repercussions from the american anti-french backlash. France: War Has Led to Economic Fallout 03/23/2003 14:30:46 EST The economy minister said Sunday that he believes the worst French economic fallout from the war in Iraq had already taken place. "In the last year, or rather in the last six months, I think the Iraqi events have already created negative consequences that France regrets now," Francis Mer told LCI television and RTL radio. "I'm not saying that to deny the intensity of the Iraqi problems, but the main part of the negative consequences from the Iraqi crisis is behind us," he said. According to a survey by the IFOP agency published Sunday in the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, 46 percent of French people worry the war will aggravate economic and other problems in France. The French unemployment rate held steady at 9.1 percent in January, the most recent figures released. Consumption fell 0.2 percent that month, suggesting that the French economy got off to a weak start in 2003. Also in January, France's consumer confidence index dropped five points to reach its lowest level in five years.