Total (French Oil) throws gauntlet to U.S. on Iraq deals

Reuters via Yahoo Finance ^ | 2/20/2003 | Emelia Sithole

[repub32]

Hmmmm can anyone say "$4 a gallon,Chirac".

[Beck_isright]

And just how do the frogs propose to get oil from fields that have been blown to smithereens without helping to cap and rebuild? They'll want our wildcatters to do the dirty work then they'll just take the repaired rigs and pocket the profits. If we allow that then we are as weak and cowardly as the frogs.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Now, there's an unfortunate name.

But one which makes her eminently qualified to write about the French.

[Xthe17th]

I was wondering when they'd rear their cheese-eating surrender-monkey froghead. Elf is big in Formula 1 racing as a sponsor of that great automotive manufacturer and maker of the LeCar, Renault. (/sarcasm)