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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (95876)	4/23/2003 11:50:05 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Chirac's Latest Ploy With Powell's back up at the French, and the world not too interested in agreeing with the French and Russians about how to handle Iraqi money, we may be able to pressure them into getting out of the way. Will be an interesting debate.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (95876)	4/23/2003 11:52:06 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Last week's Chirac-Putin ultimatum: If we don't get French-Russian contracts to rebuild Iraq, we won't let Iraq sell its oil. You suffer the casualties; we get the contracts. The US could always take the approach of "try and stop us importing Iraqi oil". US went to war without them, it can conduct trade without them too.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (95876)	4/24/2003 11:25:28 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Exactly how are the French, Russians and the SC going to prevent the US from allowing Iraqi oil to flow? Surely the US can allow development of the necessary infrastructure and use funds from the sale of oil to finance Iraq's reconstruction without the bother of a sanctions regime being in place. I must be missing something. By the way, I suppose it's a sign of the times that the NYT prints a piece in which Putin is called Chirac's poodle. C2@justdoit.com