----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Weiss" <anweiss .AT. optonline .DO.T net>
To: <profox@leafe.com>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:10 PM
Subject: RE: [OT] : French Products and Companies to Boycott
> I'll grant you all the rational arguments about the UN resolution. I
> personally think the resolution should have been defeated simply on the
> basis of bad grammar alone, but that's me.
>
> What I resent is the french setting themselves up as the one and only
> obstacle to the resolution passing. France is a relatively small country
> with a huge economy that competes ruthlessly around the world for markets.
> They will sell anything to anyone where there's a buck to be made (Mind
you,
> I am without equal in my admiration for capitalism) including Mirage jets
to
> Qaddafi and oil service contracts to Saddam Hussein.
>
Not like Reagan/Bush selling chemical and biological agents to Saddam, eh?
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