Originally posted by 10Bears
Holden McGroin; Lets assume for a minute that the agenda for Project for a New American Century is the correct one.. that is American/British military control all the way from Syria to the western border of China.. Now.. if you were Russian president wouldn’t you be at the very least concerned America would have sole control of the oil spikit? That means any nation that steps out of line their price of oil would jump to the moon. Already we think France will have the highest prices for fuel in the world..
Wow! did I advocate US/UK world domination? I didn't think so, I thought that I wrote that there is more here to US policy than oil, and oil is indeed a part of the French/German/Russian agenda.
Loïk Le Floch Prigent, a former chief of ELF Aquitane (French Oil Co.) was convicted and is serving time on corruption charges that had something to do with Elf Aquitaine giving vast amounts of money to the Gaullist party of President Jacques Chirac, and other political leaders / parties. I call it bribery, they called it 'subvention'.
"Some politicians were not inclined to support our activities in Africa. We had to silence them," said the former Elf CEO. With money, that is. Around five million euros.
French Company which has signed contracts with Saddam?---> Elf
I believe that the opposition to the military option in Iraq was not pure and clean. That is what
I thought[/b] I said.
Another point, non intervention and continuation of sanctions and inspections costs the lives of innocent Iraqis. According to UNICEF, more than 1.2 million children since Gulf War 1. So a continuation of Hans Blix looking where Saddam allows is not the most humane policy either.