Regards, Ivan
Regards, Ivan
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And just why would this be any of frances business?
They sure were not this eager to hand over convicted murderer Ira Einhorn.
I guess if you are opposing a tyrannical government they will arrest you even if there is no evidence. Being convicted of killing your girlfriend and keeping her body in your closet is A-ok though.
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Ivan: "Pardon me, I'm going to be ill. This represents a new low, even for Chirac."
Thanks to FR, I remember Chirac's car deals are nothing new - he traded them for nuke tech. That caught my eye.
From last week:
How Israel Denied Saddam the Bomb
FP: What exactly was the relationship between French President Jacques Chirac and Saddam Hussein?Claire: Their relationship reached back 30 years, when Chirac was French Prime Minister. He first visited Baghdad in 1974, when he and the Iraqi leader worked out a far-reaching trade agreement which made France Iraq's number one trading partner, along with the Soviet Union, later Russia.
The initial deal called for France to sell Iraq a state-of-the-art nuclear reactor that produced enriched uranium as a by-product and which could easily be converted to weapons-grade plutonium. Iraq agreed to pay twice the "list price" for the Osiris reactor, or $300 million. In return, Iraq would sell France 70 million barrels of oil a year at fixed market price, buy 100,000 Peugots and Citroens, in lots of 50,000, hundreds of Mirage fighter planes, sophisticated French radar and anti-aircraft systems. A side agreement also contracted French developers to build a billion dollar resort on the lake at Habbaniya. The deal was sealed when Hussein visited France in 1975, feted as an esteemed internation leader by the French Republic.
The military sales to Iraq would continue up until the Coalition invaded Iraq in March 2003.
Jacques "Ass" Chirac and any who support him is the enemy of the free world. I guess he misses old buddy, Saddam, so he's snuggling up with Iran now. Twit.
That's the punchline - does anybody remember the rest of the joke?
Remember when he held joint naval exercises with the Chinese Navy... during the Taiwanese elections? This is not a new low for Chirac, it's his normal wormy state.
The timing is suspicious. And Chirac is in bed with the Iranian regime. But let's not forget that MEK is listed as a terrorist group here in the U.S.. That may change at some point, but they're still on the designated Terrorist list now.
Boy this story smells just like...France!
Chiraq has to keep finding new piles of other people's money for him, his cronies and France. It's seldom a pretty or honorable sight.
ROTFL. What's wacquo Jacquo going to do when the new Iranian government revokes these contracts. He just keeps getting the ground blown out from under his feet.
Syria doesn't have too much to offer, but maybe wacquo will be reduced to going there next. That would be hysterical. He has the Al Gore Magic Touch except that wacquo puts the whammy on countries instead of just politicians.
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