"Nemo l'ancien" wrote in message
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And the US does not have a very strange relation with oil producer like SA?
Even when people of that country funded terrorism...

No, we don't have a relationship anything like that which France apparently
had with Saddam, as is becoming more clear with every release of information
regarding these "sweetheart deals" between your companies and Saddam. What
is the going rate these days for a major foreign policy decision in France?
Maybe you could bid them out, or just sell them in an open market... The
question is no longer whether or not France's support can be bought by the
highest bidder, but just what the final cost will be. Recent reports
indicate that maybe the best place to find the answer to that question would
be in Beijing, which has apparently bought the latest chunk of the FPMQ
(French Policy-Making Quota), in return for that recent proposal from Chirac
to dump the arms export restrictions against the PRC.

Brooks