From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 16:31:11 MDT
--- Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/15/2002 4:42:16 AM Central Standard Time,
> humania@t-online.de writes: In Germany we have more than 80 % of the
> population against this war.Chancellor Schroeder and Secretary of
> State
> Fischer repeat it every day: there will be no war machinery support
> from Germany if USA/UK goes against Iraq.
Which is one more proof of what Europeans, and socialists, for that
matter, mean when they say that we have their "unlimited support".
>
> I heard last night that Schroeder had changed directions. Is
> that
> true? I also heard that the French were coming on board in exchange
> for a
> seat at the bargaining table when they slice up the oil supply from
> Iraq.
> Those are just thoughts I heard in passing on TV. Is there
> any truth in them?
The French already own much of the oil rigging in Iraq. I think they
are being bribed by an offer of a bigger slice of the pie, paying less
royalties to the soon-to-be-Iraqi-government than they are to Saddam.
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