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marginalizing Sadr
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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Oh good grief Ty. We all know - except maybe you - that Chirac's hiding behind the UN was all about France's uncollected debts and contracts with Saddam and had nothing whatsoever to do with altruism, the peace process, multilateralism, etc. I sure didn't see them waiting on the UN when they ran into Algeria last year.
But I'll bite anyway. Sure they were willing to ante up - they would for for UN control and in turn get lucrative UN contracts [e.g. Oil for Food]. Who knows, maybe they would even build a second nuclear reactor for Israel to blow up.
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Look, club said something stupid, and I'm just pointing out that he was wrong. Once the war was over, many countries -- including the UK -- wanted the UN to run Iraq. It's bogus to say that the UN never wanted the responsibility. It's just not true.
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