May 12, 2005
No blood for oil, not in our name...
Or so they claimed.
A longtime ally of French President Jacques Chirac and a leading British critic of the Iraq war received huge contracts to resell Iraqi oil from Saddam Hussein under the U.N. oil-for-food program, Senate investigators have found.Posted by Carine at May 12, 2005 10:45 AMIn findings being released today, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs permanent subcommittee on investigations charges that former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua and British Member of Parliament George Galloway each received the right to market more than 10 million barrels of cut-rate oil from dictator Saddam's Oil Ministry between 1999 and 2003.
Perhaps you just misheard - maybe it was "no blood of ours for oil". Other people's blood is just fine.
Posted by: Doug at May 12, 2005 12:19 PMPétrole contre pourriture.
Posted by: Squid at May 12, 2005 10:15 PMThe UN and it's socialist den of thieves and murderers must be held to account.
Posted by: Tom Penn at May 13, 2005 04:42 AMWhat you guy don't know, is that france shown you the way to imperialism. The entire wolrd is bitching about US politic, but people seems to forget that, we've been the one colonising africa, selling you slave, robbing african diamonds, gold, and uranium, and whatever that has a price....
Now what's going on? The student is getting better than the teacher. L'eleve depasse le maitre. Take care you guys. Was a pleasure to teach you one last thing.
Posted by: christ at May 16, 2005 01:56 AMChristophe le petit prétentieux,
Teach us what? That France has always been a murderous, imperialistic, arrogant, bloody nation?
That her bloody 1789 revolution inspired the worst totalistarianisms, including nazism and communism?
You've just learned that right?
Then now stop reading Newsweek and try to learn something, anything about US history and present, and you'll understand that - thank God! - France never taught America anything.
America once tried to teach France Freedom though, but in vain.
Décidément, l'arrogance française n'a aucune limite.
Posted by: Carine at May 16, 2005 09:11 AMI think about the fact that Frenchmen are one of the few nationalities on Earth, whose Government hasn't forced a mass migration of their dissatisfied population to our shores. Sure they tried a couple military invasions, but no boat people yet.
Must have been powerful media programming to keep them home.
Christ (or should I call you baby Jesus?) if we were imperialists you would be American, the 54th state of the Union. We would have Japan as the 51st, Germany as the 52nd, and the unified Korean peninsula as the 53rd.
"But what about Spain, Mexico, the Philipines, and Cuba?" you might ask - if you weren't an ignorant shit.
Your right. France wouldn't rate any higher then 58th.
Posted by: papertiger at May 17, 2005 04:46 AMOf all people, Joschka Fischer:
Q: Fine, but hasn't the American empire made us feel how unimportant it considers us?Posted by: Doug at May 17, 2005 09:10 PMA: Oh, please, the United States is really not an empire. I know of no less imperially-oriented political culture than America's. Rather, it is a culture that looks in on itself, which wants to get away from the rest of the world. The idea of a European country, and ours in particular, or Russia or China having a similar degree of power would give me nightmares. The more one gets to know this democracy with its fifty states, the less I would speak of an empire.
