A commenter asked for clarification on my statement that Jaques Chirac is a "viscous mobster" in my earlier post.
How about this story:
The incumbent mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, filed the civil complaint after auditors he ordered found huge claims for private receptions.
The audit revealed - among other things - that cash payments to the mayor's cooks amounted to 1.4 million euros (£1m).
The report said some bills appeared to have been paid several times, and others seemed to be for fictitious items.
French magistrates have also investigated large cash payments Mr Chirac made for private trips abroad in the 1990s.
OR this headline:
"France's Chirac hails Arafat as man of courage" - you remember Arafat, father of terrorist human bombs?
Or this article:
It is common knowledge that French President Chirac and Saddam had a “deep and tight” relationship. We know "Russia, France and China accounted for 82% of all weapons sales to Saddam Hussein's regime between 1973 and 2002." With so much easy money to be made selling weapons to Saddam and getting cheap oil, just why would the French support the Iraq war? – forget the minor moral details. Saddam's rule meant torture chambers, dropping poison gas on civilians, starting an 8-year war with Iran which claimed a million lives, etc. An estimated 300,000 dead Iraqis lay in some 260 mass graves, 40 of which have been confirmed to date. And the left says that America is motivated only by corporate greed? Poor French. Poor Saddam.
In April of 2003 William Safire wrote this about Chirac:
After a decade of opposing any pressure on Saddam to obey U.N. resolutions, France reversed itself after its favorite dictator was brought down. Chirac and his new ally, Vladimir Putin, let it be known they would refuse to lift U.N. sanctions on the sale of Iraqi oil.
Last week's Chirac-Putin ultimatum: If we don't get French-Russian contracts to rebuild Iraq, we won't let Iraq sell its oil. You suffer the casualties; we get the contracts
There are many more articles written about Chirac's involvement with Saddam Hussein in cheating the Oil for Food Program while keeping millions for themselves:
U K Telegraph
Babson Free Press
And don't forget Kofi Annan, evil man that he is, covering up for France's participation along with the U.N.'s
The blood of British, American, Australian, Polish, Japanese, soldiers are on all of their hands.
U.N. deserted leads in oil-for-food investigation.
The truth is out there, Gary...it's just a matter of whether or not you want to recognize it.
DR
