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Old 03-16-2003, 11:40 AM   #3
lasher
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Join Date: January 31, 2003
Location: Europe
Age: 46
Posts: 94
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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
We are all quite aware of this history. You could look online and find thousands of related items showing that many nations of the West supported Saddam. One public handshake 20 years ago doesn't mean anything in the context of today's Iraqi crisis.

Which nation was it that supplied Iraq with the material and technology to build a nuclear reactor in the late 70's? You know, the one the Israelis destroyed with an airstrike in 1981. [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]

Oh yeah, it was France who sold the technology to Iraq and who helped build the Osiraq/Tammuz I reactor. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Im glad you remind it. Ive read here that some people think it is "one of the many evidence" that France has compromised itself with Iraq.
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