Straffo...why are you acting like this?
When I posted about the French history, you said I was an idiot.
When someone else posted about the French history, you said he was an idiot.
When someone posted something about Vichy Indochine and thier aid to the Japanese, you say he was an idiot.
When other people are posting on the issue of France and their economic ties to Iraq, you ignore what they post and focus on irrelevant detail to avoid the real issue.
Now when a ww2 vet, who was in France 1944 and actually helped liberate France from Germany speaks his mind on the French and their attitude, he is an idiot too, and besides, tv news should not be trusted.
Now, you say that news agencies like CNN or CBS should not be trusted.
Well, let me ask you what you think is a credible news source then?
Are you aware, Straffo, that you are coming across more and more like Boroda when he is defending USSR and Katyn?
You are trying to defend something that is impossible to defend.
France trade with Iraq in 2001 was worth $1,5 billion. French companies have secured multi billion dollar concession rights to drill for Iraqi oil. Problem is they cannot do this while the sanctions are in place. France has been lobbying for the lift of sanctions against Iraq since 1994. France has been helping Iraq bypass the oil for food program since 95. One quote that I find very revealing:
"At Peugeot, a spokeswoman said the company delivered 500 cars to Iraq in the first half of the year under the oil-for-food program, about the number it delivered annually before the Gulf War.
Some trade transactions have set off greater disagreement. In March, Nabel Musawi of the London-based Iraqi National Congress told ABC News that Baghdad bought seven refrigerated trucks from Renault Trucks, and converted them into biological arms laboratories. Bernard Lancelot, a Renault Trucks spokesman, said the deal was approved under the oil-for-food program. "What the client does with the trucks later," he said, "we don't know." [/b]
Oh and before you start come screaming for sources, let me give them to you:
http://www.un.org/Depts/oip/or
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/irqindx.htmNow ask yourself: Is the UN security counsel a credible source, or are they biased too or part of some conservative concpiracy?
