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2005-10-14 Europe

French envoys (and UN bagman) admit taking oil payoffs

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Posted by Hupineth Hupinegum5527 2005-10-14 11:56|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So they're going to have to give the money back to Iraq, right?

/too naive even for me

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-14 12:29|| 2005-10-14 12:29|| Front Page Top

#2 There is no link . . . with the decision of France not to participate in the Iraq war. This stemmed from our concept of international law.

Understand that the French concept of international law makes taking bribes the normal course of operation.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-14 12:41|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-14 12:41|| Front Page Top

#3 From what I've read in specialized blogs, Serge Boidevaix IS a supremo of France's Arab Policy (tm), he's been made the highest honorific position in the quay D'Orsay (french State Dept), he's retained all of his networks after retiring to an arab-related international business org, and he has molded whole generations of french diplomats to the ME in his image.
He's not just a patsy.

Posted by anonymous5089 2005-10-14 14:04|| 2005-10-14 14:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Funny, I missed this at www.lefigaro.fr.

Posted by Curt Simon 2005-10-14 14:21|| 2005-10-14 14:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Not too be defending the Figaro, which is owned by Shirak's pal arms dealer/media mogul Serge Dassault and is not known for its un-PCness (except for the great Ivan Rioufol's op-ed), but I did remember seing a piece on it, as I did in Le Monde yesterday (though the writer there basically said it was an US plot, in true Le Monde fashion, and didn't dwell on the central idea that french diplomacy is for sell).

Articles in Le Figaro :
http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/
20051013.FIG0124.html?172522

http://www.lefigaro.fr/europe/
20051014.FIG0197.html?172558

Posted by anonymous5089 2005-10-14 14:58|| 2005-10-14 14:58|| Front Page Top

#6 French perfidy is nothing new, one should expect it. A knife in the back is very French you must understand. France is so above everyone else that she need not pay attention to the saftey and needs of the rest of the world. Any debt we owe the French for helping drive the Redcoats out has long since been repaid.

My wife is selling her classes in French lnaguage to some students at her High School as a way to help our counrty speak and understand the language of our foes. This is from a woman who used to love the French and who studied in France for sometime.

Our blue little town sends many young men and women into the Armed Forces of the United States of America, Her High School District is very proud of that fact. She is proud of her students that choose to serve their counrty.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-10-14 15:14|| 2005-10-14 15:14|| Front Page Top

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