Oil for food programme...is this true?

[woodgnome]

Bimmercat wrote:

> You're not going to like this...but if the allegations turn out
> to be true...it certainly explains France and Germany's
> attutude towards helping us out...does it not?

why would you assume that?

it was widely acknowledged from the outset, even by those opposed to the war like myself, that france, russia and china adopted the positions that they did not out of high falutin' moral objections but primarily for economic and geo-political reasons.

not sure what germany has to do with it, though. are they mentioned in a bit you didn't quote?

[mart]

Perhaps "the rest of the world" is waiting for the evidence. The jury is still out on the issue.
You probably believe in lynch law in Texas.

Mart

[Cerberus]

As Mart says "the jury is out".
Seems a bit odd to me that in "the land of the free" the culpability of their own oil baron at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue goes unquestioned by the masses.....except maybe in his home state where the unemployed, wait in line for their church donated food parcels!

[Bob Singleton]

Bimmercat wrote: "Ok, well then why is the rest of the world making such a bally-hoo over the USa going around the UN to go into Iraq?"


Maybe because the rest of the world hates Americans? Have you never thought of that?

Look at it this way....

Margaret Thatcher: Disliked in her own country, but loved abroad.
Mikhail Gorbachev: Disliked in his own country, but loved abroad.
George W Bush: Disliked everywhere BUT his own country (which, let's face it, has a ratio of 9 morons to one normal person)

hehehehe

[mart]

Its true then, Americans don't have a sense of humour.

Mart