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To: goldworldnet who wrote (26)	3/17/2006 10:31:58 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

He did not pay the bombers, he paid the surviving families.... And I am constantly amazed at the RW reaction to the French....one of our oldest allies.... I don't know how much they were involved with the oil scam, but I do know the USA bought most of that oil. Right up to the invasion we were buying 50-60% of Saddam's oil.... Check the DOE website.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (26)	3/17/2006 11:09:13 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

>>>I think his paying suicide bombers made him a terrorist. What about the French and the oil for food scam they were running?<<< Regarding Saddam paying suicide bombers? Yes, they got paid. But the policy Saddam enacted was to give $25,000 to the family of any Palestinian who died as a result Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This meant that if a person was killed when Israel bulldozed a home in a settlement, the family of that individual would get the money. He didn't discriminate as to how you died as a result of the conflict--if you died from the conflict, the family was compensated. Regarding the French? The day following 9/11 it was the French who introduced into the United Nations a resolution calling for a coalition against terrorism. Unfortunately, Bush and the Fox-led media victimized the French for political gain. One should go back and read the remarks of the French ambassador during the Security Council deliberations during the Iraq debate.