[catiwompus]

There have been a number of fine posts on the real reason why Canada opposed any involvment with the war on Iraq. This Mark Steyn column adds to the data and is worth a read. The Canadian government has been interested in the oil money all along according to this article. It's worth a read.

[TWohlford]

"But, if it was all about oil, then the fact--fact--is that the only Western leader with a direct stake in the issue was not the Texas oilpatch stooge in Washington, but Jean Chrétien: his daughter, his son-in-law and his grandchildren stood to be massively enriched by the Total-Saddam agreement. It depended on two factors: Saddam remaining in power, and the feeble UN sanctions being either weakened into meaninglessness or quietly dropped. M. Chrétien may have refused to join the Iraq war on “principle,” but fortunately his principles happened to coincide with the business interests of both TotalFinaElf and the Baath party."

Uh huh. Yup. Thought so. "Follow the money" once again.

[nuconvert]

Good Article!