Facts on Who Benefits From Keeping Saddam Hussein In Power

The Heritage Foundation ^ | February 28, 2003 | Carrie Satterlee

[Republican_Strategist]

Freeper Resource: What Team Saddam Doesn’t Want You To Know!

The Iraqi-Bin Laden Connection



Explosive Report: Jacques Chirac & Saddam Hussein Are Longtime Friends & Allies

Saddam's French Connection [The goods on Chirac?]

Germany biggest offender in covert sale of weapons to Baghdad, says G2 report

Boycott French and German Products

Russia ready to veto U.S.-British resolution on Iraq to protect `international stability'

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War List

[BunnySlippers]

Bookmarking. Ewww ... that worm!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

France's largest oil company, Total Fina Elf, has negotiated a deal to develop the Majnoon field in western Iraq. The Majnoon field purportedly contains up to 30 billion barrels of oil.

To put this into perspective, the U.S. Geological Survey, updated May 2000, estimated that ANWR might contain up to 16 billion barrels of oil. Link:

http://www.anwr.org/features/blackgold.htm

[Republican_Strategist]

Patriot List

[Republican_Strategist]

Cross referencing another good one - France now a major trading partner of Iraq (Let's give France back to Germany!)

Although I'd give France to the Blair.

[GOPJ]

This is greed, pure and simple. The French are trying to play us for fools, pretending their actions are principled or even enlightened self interest. They don't care a wit about the Iraqis - but then again, don't the French also use torture as a tool? Birds of a feather?

[Republican_Strategist]

You should take a look at my Factsheet on ANWR

[Republican_Strategist]

Newsmax.com said it best:

The cowardly French are so jealous in guarding their multibillion-dollar financial ties to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein that they will endanger the lives of American servicemen.

"Essentially the French are trying to maneuver the U.S. into a position that would maximize U.S. casualties - as if enough US soldiers haven't been killed on France's behalf," a source tells NewsMax.

"French politicians are using the lives of U.S. soldiers as pawns, while the infrastructure of French political freedom lays on the solid foundation of the bones of U.S. servicemen."

Here's the scoop, according to Stratfor.com:

Because of desert heat, any war against Iraq must conclude in April. "The preference to begin the war under moonless skies means that an attack is possible around March 1 or at the end of March - which wouldn't leave enough time for the operation.

"The next moonless night, or night when the moon rises after 4 a.m., will be Feb. 27. The moon re-emerges on March 4. The United States does not want to attack in mid-month, with the full moon. The next open window will come at the end of March. If the weather sets a terminus date of about April 15, that will allow for only a two-week operation before problems might begin to arise from the weather.

"It is no accident that a French proposal suggests another report from chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix on March 14. The French, in this apparently innocent proposal, know they are undermining the U.S. military option. It is also no accident that the United States is insisting that Feb. 28, when Blix is scheduled to give his next report, is the date that Washington is insisting on as the final decision point.

"If France wins, the United States either has to fight the war under less than optimal conditions or postpone the attack. President George W. Bush is not going to start a war at a time when his commanders are saying that it might entail additional risk. If anything went wrong, the president couldn't survive that call."

Newsmax's call - Stop cowardly France! Join the boycott against all things French!

[Republican_Strategist]

Here's a politically incorrect web site dedicated to the topic - F**k France

[Libertarianize the GOP]

bttt!

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[AzJohn]

Thanks for the ping.

It's interesting that the same source (CIA World Factbook) shows that Australia accounts for 22% of Iraq's imports. Australia's stake is actually much bigger than France's if you consider the relative size of the Australian economy. Yet Australia supports the U.S. position. It seems to me that these other countries (France etc.) just don't like the exercise of American power.

[yoe]

You have to factor in the United Nations use of the EPA in this country and the many agencies in which the UN and EPA are 'parterners'. Alaskans don't own Alaska, the EPA and United Nations do via our own Federal Government and political correctness to all.

I do believe we are dumping oil - who gets the benifits? Interesting question...........

(02/10/2003) Alaska—News Briefs—Enforcement
Ice Plug Costs BP $675,000
(02/07/2003) Alaska—News Briefs—Enforcement
Oil Dumping Problem Persists
(02/06/2003) Alaska—News Briefs—Energy Generation
Democrats Vow to Block ANWR Drilling

[Rockitz]

Cliff Notes Version- It's all about money.

[Cindy]

FREEDOM FRIES make my day... The French are Fried and are bad for my chloresteral.

[MeekOneGOP]

Hey, and don't forget THIS ! ...

bttt ...

[MeekOneGOP]

...and bookmarked !

[pt17]

Thanks for the ping. I can use this information to good advantage (i.e., a nearly-converted).

[Eva]

It was reported on Tony Snowe (Brit Hume show actually) yesterday that French politicians, including Chirac, have gotten rich through dealing with Saddam Hussein and that if France fails to prevent an Iraq war that Iraq has threatened to reveal these personal fortunes and how they were made.