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Iraqi govt. papers: Saddam bribed Chirac
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Documents from Saddam Hussein's oil ministry reveal he used oil to bribe top French officials into opposing the imminent U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. The oil ministry papers, described by the independent Baghdad newspaper al-Mada, are apparently authentic and will become the basis of an official investigation by the new Iraqi Governing Council, the Independent reported Wednesday. "I think the list is true," Naseer Chaderji, a governing council member, said. "I will demand an investigation. These people must be prosecuted." Such evidence would undermine the French position before the war when President Jacques Chirac sought to couch his opposition to the invasion on a moral high ground. A senior Bush administration official said Washington was aware of the reports but refused further comment. French diplomats have dismissed any suggestion their foreign policy was influenced by payments from Saddam, but some European diplomats have long suspected France's steadfast opposition to the war was less moral than monetary. "Oil runs thicker than blood," is how one former ambassador put his suspicions about the French motives for opposing action against Saddam. Al-Mada's list cites a total of 46 individuals, companies and organizations inside and outside Iraq as receiving Saddam's oil bribes, including officials in Egypt, Jordan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Sudan, China, Austria and France, as well as the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Communist Party, India's Congress Party and the Palestine Liberation http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040128-094014-7323r.htm |
Saddam bribed Chirac?
by MegaDude 39 Replies latest social current
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MegaDude
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avishai
Scary. If it's true, I'll laugh my ass off!
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Yerusalyim
A lot of people have been saying this for over a year, yet the individuals that wanted the US to go through the UN didn't account for this aspect at all. Hmmmm.
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stillajwexelder
I so hope all this is true - as I have said before on this board -- the French are only interested in the French
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Valis
sheesh...and think those bribes influenced officials all the way up the chain. I think we should invade France for assisting the enemy...*LOL*
Sincerely,
District Overbeer
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Sirius Dogma
I still can't figure out
American Propaganda
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French Propaganda
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Iraqi Propaganda
Like a bunch of bloody children all pointing their fingers at each other saying... 'He did it!'
I hope it isn't true, but nothing surprises me in politics anymore :/
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Satanus
This is funny, because the usa gives billions in aide, technology transfer, guaranteed oil supply (to israel), military aide/advice, food, etc to innumerable countries and groups within countries. Yet none would call that bribery. For at least 50 yrs, the usa has used all of the above to further it's interests taking the forms of, capitalism, democracy, corporatism, intelligence, uprisings, etc. Then, some tinpot dictator w delusions of grandeur, together w france emulate them on a miniscule level, and suddenly it bad. What a laugh!
SS
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Pleasuredome
SS & Sirius,
i couldnt agree with you more.
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patio34
SS, Sirius, I second what Pleasuredome said. Talk about spin.
Pat
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Stacy Smith
Does anything surprised anyone?