Originally posted by BGBMAW
FOUND IN IRAQ...FRENcH MADE ROLAND 2 MISSLES...........
Another fox news lie, I'll make the rebuttal short, I know the average Fox news viewer attention span is short...
Poland: French missile report incorrect
By BEATA PASEK
Associated Press Writer
October 4, 2003, 3:08 PM EDT
WARSAW, Poland -- After a protest from French President Jacques Chirac, Poland said Saturday it had been mistaken in reporting that its troops found new French-made anti-aircraft misiles in central Iraq.
Chirac swiftly denied selling Iraq weapons in violation of the U.N. weapons embargo imposed against Saddam Hussein's regime in 1990. The claims, he said, "are as false today as they were yesterday."
An aide to the Polish prime minister said an initial report that the Roland missiles found by Polish troops days ago were produced in 2003 was incorrect. France said it stopped producing any type of Roland missile in 1993.
Prime Minister Leszek Miller met with Chirac twice to explain the mistake, said the aide, Tadeusz Iwinski. The two leaders were in Rome on Saturday for a European Union summit.
"There can be no 2003 missiles since these missiles have not been made for 15 years," Chirac told reporters in Rome. "Polish soldiers confused things. I told ... Miller so frankly -- friendly but firmly."
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and, had Iraq been equiped with recent French anti-aircraft missiles, more than one Coalition warplane would have been destroyed.
FYI, any weapon purchase ever made by Iraq over the years has been payed with US dollars (who do you think financed Saddam when you guys thought he was the best defence against Iranian islamists ?), and US approval, covert or not.
so, again :
