>>>I don't know how you came to that conclusion. You must be connected with very high strong sources.
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>>Is French TV isn't telling you about the economic ties dictating French policy toward Iraq, or about France's involvement in Iraq's nuclear program, I have to wonder.
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>Do you think that there are no economic ties between the countries supporting the U.S.A.?
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>SNIP
Denis,

One of those French economic ties is with RJR Nabisco's or Philip Morris' (I forget which) sale of cigarettes to Iraq.
That trade was so valuable that the French salesman responsible and the boss of the French subsidiary were both treated to a lavish visit to head office in the U.S. by private jet and all the trimmings.
Then the French government foubd out and told them that the embargo didn't allow such trade, to it was moved to some other place (Kuwait I believe).

It is a most common trick of corporations - not missed by U.S. ones - to circumvent embargoes by having subsidiaries do the deals. They even create subsidiaries for that purpose.

So it is vey had to tell for sure WHO a "trade tie" really is with.