[Culturechat] William Safire: The French Connection

[JayBn@aol.com]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/13/opinion/13SAFI.html

Excerpt follows:

France, China and Syria all have a common reason for keeping American and 
British troops out of Iraq: the three nations may not want the world to 
discover that their nationals have been illicitly supplying Saddam Hussein 
with materials used in building long-range surface-to-surface missiles. . . . 
This detail about the France-China-Syria-Iraq propellant collaboration makes 
for dull reading, but it reveals some of the motivation behind the campaign 
of those nations to suppress the truth. The truth, however, will out.