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Originally posted by eric
Smart move, the saturated fats will kill you !
Your right we do, and we wanted something in this case. Tell me though what did the French stand to gain by blocking us?
Why not just let us persue what we felt we needed to do ?
This is my real problem.
Economically, the French stood to gain or lose a few Iraqi contracts. I'm sure we could have bribed them, and it would have been worth billions in contracts to do so.
But then there's that sticky problem of the public will in a democracy. In the long term it may have been political suicide for Chirac to support the resolution because polls showed that over 80% of the French opposed the impending war. Isn't democracy inconvenient sometimes? Then there's the fact that they didn't believe our intelligence on WMDs, because it contradicted their own, which turned out to be accurate.
Now I have a craving for wine and fries and all I have is taco chips and beer. Oh well, that's what you get coming to chat boards.