Buy the votes we wanted? Bribed countries?

1. With France, we promised the new regime would honor already existing agreements. How exactly is that a bribe? And if it were a bribe, since France is now opposing us, why isn't that same bribe working now?

2. Russia and the right to fight terrorists in Chechnya? Wasn't it Chechyan rebels who terrorized that theatre is Moscow? How exactly is that a bribe?

3. Can't comment on the WTO, but to the best of my knowledge, we don't run the WTO. In other words, aren't there some other countries involved?

4. Exactly what kind of wrath would we wreak on Mexico? We already beat theme in the 2002 World Cup. Ask any Mexican... that is the harshest thing we could do :-).

Probably my favorite part about that site was a news item on home page:

Israel Thrives on Terrorism

check it out:

http://www.jerusalemites.org/index.htm

>No, but we can buy the votes we want:
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>America succeeded in getting what it wanted, which, while not representing the will of the world community, fulfilled the interests of certain countries. In other words, the US bribed certain nations to secure their backing.
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>France, for example, was promised that a new regime would honour the trade and oil agreements it has with the current government. Russia received two prizes for its cooperation; a free hand in Chechnya and an American commitment that the future regime in Iraq will pay back its debts to Moscow, and that it will honour the oil deals signed with the government of Saddam.
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>China’s bribe was World Trade Organization membership on easy terms, opening the US market to Chinese imports, and an agreement to consider movements fighting to secede from Beijing as terrorist organizations.
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>Mexico, another non-permanent Security Council member, was paid an appropriate bribe too: it was promised US support for better terms from the International Monetary Fund. In addition, by backing the resolution, the Mexicans avoided America’s wrath.
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>I wonder what they will get this time to cooperate? Such integrity these nations have! Who is the more guilty-those that receive the 'incentives' or those that give them?
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>Tracy