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Originally posted by bilmore
Ah. Now I see.
Are you, perchance, looking only at the numbers they have chosen to release to the world? My understanding was that they have been fairly well shown to have done quite a bit of "quiet" business with Iraq over the last ten years.
OK, A huge bit.
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Even so, think about the relative size of our economy -- or of France's neighbors in Europe -- and of Iraq's. And Iraq is not a rich country. There was surely a fair amount of state spending in some specific areas (the aptly named Mirage jet comes to mind), but in the big scheme of things, not so much.
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